Awful weather - typical Brits talk

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Farway said:

Tipping down here, ideal summer's day.

I had planned to tie in the longer canes of the Merton Thornless blackberry but  not in the rain. plus the apple pruning seems to have "cricked" my neck where I was reaching up I suspect, so today is a nothing doing day

Same here yesterday, it was on and off though which is frustrating 😣

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DD265 said:

We're due rain from mid/late afternoon, so I've put washing out on the off chance it'll dry before the weather turns.

I've had the second tomato from my crop this morning, and there will be plenty more to come. The peppers have also started to flower, but it's looking very cramped in the greenhouse! It looks like my roses are coming back for a second round of flowers so I shall enjoy those. I can't seem to keep coriander thriving in my herb planter so I replaced it with a new supermarket one this morning.

Have been looking for an alternative to the RSPB high energy suet pellets. The birds love them and the quality is fantastic, but the price is eye watering for the quantity we go through. I bought some fruity ones and some insect ones from Dawn Chorus/Twootz on Amazon with a view to mixing them (the berry ones went down OK previously) but they sent me two insect ones - I hope the birds like them!

I completely agree.
Do a bit of googling because i get my high energy pellets from a couple of places at far more competitive prices.
If i remember their names i'll post it here - i'm sure you'll find some before that happens though 😉

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phoebe1989seb said:

Very cold, windy and wet here, so for the second day in a row I've forsaken the outdoors and have been concentrating on the piece of art I'm creating (acrylic painting on canvas) for the guest bedroom.

Hoping to get out there tomorrow and get more building prep done, but it may not happen as there's more changeable weather forecast 🙄

We actually had to light one of the wood burners today because it was so autumnal.....

Would love to see your canvas work Phoebe.

And yes, the last couple of days have definitely had an autumnal air about them ..... not welcome at all, at least 6 weeks too early .....
And guess what i saw in a shop yesterday ..... yup, Christmas bits, just the odd ones but they were there, as were academic and regular diaries 😬🎄🤨😉

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goldfinches said:

I don't know whether anyone remembers the horse chestnut tree on my regular walk that overbalanced during this year's floods and was subsequently felled, I've shown some photos of the various stages in previous posts.

To my shame although I pass it at least once a day I hadn't noticed until late this afternoon that it is sprouting new shoots. Here they are.



Just to refresh everyone's memory here it is after felling on 20th May this year.



I'll be watching it much more closely from now on.

I wonder if it'll be allowed to stay or whether it'll get killed/removed by the council/landowner ?
It would be lovely to let it stay and develop 🌱🌳

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4 hours sleep last night 🙄😕
Decided to get up at 4.30 as couldn't lie there any longer 😕
I'll be zombie-like by mid afternoon.!

Apodemus

Catsacor said:

...And yes, the last couple of days have definitely had an autumnal air about them ..... not welcome at all, at least 6 weeks too early .....

Perhaps it's being so far north that makes me view the seasons from a day-length perspective, but...

If the year has four seasons, and each is a quarter of the year, then, in my book, summer would be the 46 days either side of mid-summer's day, 21st June.  Viewed this way, summer  started on 6th May and ended on Friday, 6th August. So, as far as I am concerned, it is quite entitled to feel like autumn because it is autumn! 

This way of viewing the seasons certainly works around here: we're now into the steep portion of the sinusoidal, day-length change curve, the schools go back next week in Scotland and in a normal year the birch leaves would be turning before the end of the month, so it's definitely autumn!  Time to hunker down and dust off all the trappings of hygge!

Farway

Catsacor said:

4 hours sleep last night 🙄😕
Decided to get up at 4.30 as couldn't lie there any longer 😕
I'll be zombie-like by mid afternoon.!

I was up a bit later 0630, for same reason though, however the weather & general day is just gloom & wet out so far, no early start in garden, unless you count putting out the Shasta seedlings & Helenium youngsters.

They are both slug / snail attractants, last night as I bough them in I flicked a massive slug off the Shasta, big and as thick as as a thumb, and I noticed this morning the pellets I dosed them with caught a snail trying to hide overnight

One of my Shirley toms is starting to redden up up now, quite small though for Shirley. In general my toms this year have been lacklustre, probably due to Brexit or Covid

This far south it's supposed to still be summer and looking at my FB reminders this time last year I was scoffing fresh figs, this year i don't even have a fig to scoff let alone a ripe one

I had hoped to pick a few blackberries but even they are stubbornly stuck on red / purple and not flipped to black ripe

If the sun comes out I will start dead heading the lilies & some buddlia, both made a nice show while they lasted

phoebe1989seb

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phoebe1989seb said:

Very cold, windy and wet here, so for the second day in a row I've forsaken the outdoors and have been concentrating on the piece of art I'm creating (acrylic painting on canvas) for the guest bedroom.

Hoping to get out there tomorrow and get more building prep done, but it may not happen as there's more changeable weather forecast 🙄

We actually had to light one of the wood burners today because it was so autumnal.....

Would love to see your canvas work Phoebe.

And yes, the last couple of days have definitely had an autumnal air about them ..... not welcome at all, at least 6 weeks too early .....
And guess what i saw in a shop yesterday ..... yup, Christmas bits, just the odd ones but they were there, as were academic and regular diaries 😬🎄🤨😉

Will try to remember to add a pic - if I'm brave enough, lol! - when finished 😃

Black_Cat2

I blame you C lol 😜

goldfinches

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I wonder if it'll be allowed to stay or whether it'll get killed/removed by the council/landowner ?

It would be lovely to let it stay and develop 🌱🌳

I'm waiting to see exactly this C as it is on land owned by one of the wealthiest colleges who generally are inclined to do what they think will be in the long-term best interest of the area.