Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Just a grey, dull morning here. Good news is my T & M parcel is due for delivery today and out with the driver right now, allegedly

I remember the days of Fiends Reunited [my deliberate typo], never came across anybody I knew but the school & teachers got a slagging off, which, multiplied by thousands helped to FR eventual demise

YBE, love the "riddled with squirrels", sound about right & sums it up

IMW, sorry for your loss, but like Woolsery and having trod a similar path it is a time of very mixed emotions

Apart from opening my T & M parcel should it arrive, no gardening agian today

Woolsery

It's been lovely here..... until now. The misty, greyness has just descended, and it's only 3pm! While there were loads of fun things I could have done today, I chose cleaning the windows, because I always get soaked. Being wet in 8c and sunshine is just tolerable, and there may not be many more such days left this year.

My parcel hasn't arrived. Despite all the logs and enough charcoal to barbecue several oxen, DB decided we might need a dozen cans of gas. I hope we don't ..

twopenny

Nah! That's not a mist. That's just a bit of light stuff.

We have the full on blocking sky and hills to roof top height! Frankly it's just miserable but typical November.

I zoomed in because it looks very similar to some properties around here but I think we have more trees in that particular valley.

Another freezing foggy day, a little better in the morning till lunch. I was hoping to put up some trellis to deal with the climbing rose blocking the gate but other stuff got in the way. So hoping that I can turn my phone off over Christmas and peeps will be busy with family and business closed so I can catch up.

At least it was dry on paths. Ironically I need to test run the jet washer that hasn't been obliging.

Some bulbs are flourishing in pots. I think they were some sort of Iris which shouldn't happen till spring.

But miniture daffs are sprouting already.

YoungBlueEyes

A lot of my bulbs are coming up too. If they keep going they'll have no goodness left for Spring and my pots will be bereft Mind you, with one fewer squirrel I've a better chance of actually having bulbs so - swings and roundabouts.

It's a better day here today. It's been so damp and murky for so long I've forgotten what the sun looks like! Cloudy and still and cold, but definitely an improvement.

Farway

Better here this morning as well, sunshine and still air, cold though

Snap on bulbs coming up, spotted the bluebells at the front coming through yesterday, which means I may have to trim back the sprawling conifer covering both them and the drain manhole. Supposed to be dry this weekend, so I may venture out and do that, but last time I tried with secateurs my gouty hands failed to get enough strength to work them, soon find out once I try again, if not it's a job for DD & SIL when they come over sometime

My T & M parcel arrived yesterday, and quite impressed with the bulbs, one of the amaryllis is huge, I'll get a photo later. That's the trouble with T & M, never consistent. I'll need to find some suitable pots now

The hyacinth bulbs look fine, and I think I have the spot for them at the front, but will need to de vine weevil the pot first, just in case, another job for the dry weekend?

Woolsery

YoungBlueEyes said:

Zoomed into your pic, those trees are beautiful and so many colours 😊

Most of my piccies are zoomable if people open them in a new window. Besides the private arboretum, the trees shown are predominantly oaks, so our valleys here lose colour slowly in autumn and take ages to colour-up in spring. We seem to be a couple of weeks behind milder locations, like Taunton.

Looks like we might hit the dizzy heights of 8c today, and there could be that bane of weather-persons, frost and fog tonight.

twopenny

Thick fog for the duration today so too wet to garden.
Besides the car failed to start so walking everywhere took a lot of time.
May move my potted chrysanths where they can't be seen. They are rotting and bedraggled with the constant wet and cold - on the plus side the potted ones from last year that have knocked around the garden though flood and heatwaves even with no pot are flourishing in the border.

Odd how the gently nurtured can fail and the neglected can thrive.

Woolsery

twopenny said:

Thick fog for the duration today so too wet to garden.

No fog here after proper daybreak. It was lovely, especially around the middle of the day.

"Stands the clock at half past one ten to three,

And is there a fuchsia going free? "

Not a picture taken today, I might add, but near enough!

goldfinches

Sorry to hear about your mother @in_my_wellies and agree with Woolsery and Farway about the mixed emotions, especially at 'family' times of the year. 

The weather hereabouts has suddenly got much colder and greyer and I've been feeling too unwell to go for even a short walk so can only say that all the trees I can see from my windows are leafless and dripping wet. More cheerful news is that my poinsettia is still thriving although I haven't succeeded in persuading it to change any of its leaves to red so I shall have to have another go at that next year.

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh lovely pic woolsery, it looks a lot like the church up the road from me. V pretty

Sorry you're unwell goldfinches, nothing serious I hope. Love the new sig too - I need a 'wry smile' emoji :>