Awful weather - typical Brits talk

sammy_kaye18

Whoever is doing the rain dance in south wales can stop it now please. 
I want to be out in my garden getting it tidied up and trying to save what I have left of the lawn after husbands bright idea to buy a greyhound zoomie friend for our lurcher but I am not made for wet weather. 
Im overweight and seem to absorb water like a sponge! 

twopenny

Indeed Kaye!
Blue I'm on the coast/hill of exmoor. So west Somerset. The weather changes every few miles her, but not at the mo. Though I was told by a young man yesterday that the top of the moor was sunny as I dripped over his till. Seems i drove the wrong way..
Still struggling with aches and tiredness. Going for a warm leisurely swin and sauna ihope.
More water!!
Supposed to dry up for a couple of days but I'm not doing my washing yet. We do have your wind though.

YoungBlueEyes

Ah I thought you were top left of Scotland ish… 

You may as well keep my wind now, I hope it dries things up a bit for you. It’s just started raining here now 😒

in_my_wellies

It's cold and windy here. My daughter has covid and as I was with her I'm counting days but feeling OK so far. Trying to get ahead just in case I'm out of action soon. 

The horizontal rain isn't helping, even inside I feel cold just looking out. 

After reading on here (Farway?) I intended to take some rose cuttings. Well I didn't get round to it but found I have two successful 'accidental' ones. I use 12-15" rose stems to tie something up (can't remember what, long gone) and two of them have taken. Typical of me just to grab any old stick to use but it's paid off!  How long do I wait to dig up and pot? I intend to plant them in the hedge at the side of the woodland as they will be rampant and huge if like their parent

Farway

And it's back to sunshine for a few hours while it gets its breath, more wild & wet on the way for the weekend, than frost & sleet allegedly, deep joy

in_my_wellies said:

It's cold and windy here. My daughter has covid and as I was with her I'm counting days but feeling OK so far. Trying to get ahead just in case I'm out of action soon. 

The horizontal rain isn't helping, even inside I feel cold just looking out. 

After reading on here (Farway?) I intended to take some rose cuttings. Well I didn't get round to it but found I have two successful 'accidental' ones. I use 12-15" rose stems to tie something up (can't remember what, long gone) and two of them have taken. Typical of me just to grab any old stick to use but it's paid off!  How long do I wait to dig up and pot? I intend to plant them in the hedge at the side of the woodland as they will be rampant and huge if like their parent

Congratulations , easy isn't it? You should really leave them well alone this season before digging up, to make sure properly rooted. However, if they have taken I reckon carefully easing up, with whatever root ball you have, and then pot on should be fine, they will of course die instantly once you are taking are of them

Today I was up volunteer place, having my feet done, but took the opportunity to mooch about in the sunshine, the daffs have survived the squirrels and have leaves poking up, the should be a named lovely purple lilac but is in fact a white one, thanks to Morries mislabelling department , has nice plump buds so a promise there

And picture time is a Rosemary, planted for the volunteer kitchen but nice as a shrub, now in flower should any early bumblebees turn up. I have used the slightly out of focus look for this one

JGreenwood

I've been working from home in my attic room, and the wind sounds insanely loud up here. Keep worrying that the roof's going to cave in  

YoungBlueEyes

Bladdy windy here too! Least it’s drying out the decking so that’s one good thing. 

Beautiful pic Farway, and good news about the bulbs too. Squirrels are such a nuisance but what can you do? 

My garden has all kinds of holes and divots and displaced spots in it. Will I have to account for squirrels coming back to dig up their spoils when I start doing my garden….. 

Oh and I have a mouse under the decking. So there’s that as well now 🤨

Farway

YoungBlueEyes said:

Bladdy windy here too! Least it’s drying out the decking so that’s one good thing. 

Beautiful pic Farway, and good news about the bulbs too. Squirrels are such a nuisance but what can you do? 

My garden has all kinds of holes and divots and displaced spots in it. Will I have to account for squirrels coming back to dig up their spoils when I start doing my garden….. 

Oh and I have a mouse under the decking. So there’s that as well now 🤨

As it happens, the neighbours have applied to chop down a big old oak where the squirrels live, it has a TPO so TBH I don't think they have much chance, but who knows these days?

Mixed feelings about that, I think on balance I'd prefer the tree & squirrels, plus free leaf mould but then the tree does not shade my house or drop acorns on my head

They reckon it is also causing subsidence, unlikely I think, but I expect though if it comes down ground "Heave" will result in due course

YoungBlueEyes

I’d think those squirrels would just move to the next tree if their one came down 😁

I’ve no trees in my garden for them to live in, lovely neighbour does and the neighbour the other side of her. They mostly use us as a playground/cafè tho, they live in the churchyard a few hundred yards away. 

twopenny

It stopped raining, well sort of, but the gale force winds are bitter!
I'd intended to do some little job in the garden but freezing and wet made me'forget'.

Both new helebores are in bloom. I'm not sure that's right even for a new variety. I must rummage for the label and see what it says. Photos to follow.
My new japonica is in bloom. That was worth paying garden centre price for.

And I bought a tiny bunch of daffs from the supermarket 

Did anyone see the orchard of many fruit trees on the Hairy Bikers go local?
Now i want to research different flavours and turn the garden into an orchard of mini trees!