Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

No LG seeds for me, but I got some Unwins 3for2 seeds in Tesco. Mixed salad leaves, a butterfly mix, and some Love in a Mist. Gotta do something to fill the hole my forest has left ha haa!  I bought bfb on my way back too, for rasps and whatever else looks like it needs a hand. 

Good forecast for Sunday here, 20’ and light cloud. Heaven 😍 They’ve got it right so far today - dry, windy and cool. 

I’ve got more and more into Al Jazeera this past wee while, I want to see what’s going on in the whole world, not just selected skewed bits from here and Yankland.  

Slugs inside is just wrong. In my house they’re met with salt  

twopenny

I love love in the mist and its the only thing I've got to germinate straight into the soil - and only in this space.
Sun did come out and I spent it walking around banks and phone shops trying to get some sense post covid. Sheesh they are all trying to get control!

 Just debating what I can do in a short time in the garden when I really want to shut off from it all.
Tomorrow is supposed to be bikini weather. Can I trust that?

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

I love love in the mist and its the only thing I've got to germinate straight into the soil

I was with Mother in Law on Wednesday. She kept cursing her L in the M, saying things like "Look, it's coming up over here as well!....And here!" (MiL is a very tidy gardener, who likes to see clear earth between her perennials and shrubs, so she knows they're all in the right places.)

twopenny

My garden would drive her nuts then!
No spaces, see what comes up.
Another dull and cloudy start, chilly too, but they promise wall to wall sunshine from 10.

Yesterday i got the oold veg out and beans and a couple of toms in. Cut the bottom off a cheap pot and lifted and planted the mint in then sunk it in the earth. Hopefully it will keep it under control.
 Even mowed the lawn.
Thrilled to find the yellow courgettes have germinated! All of them.

Shouldn't have done it because the undiagnosed pain was already underway so today I'm scuppered! Looks like a day of laying around and reading. Hopefully in the sun. It's been such a long time since I've been able to do that.
Oh and my bargain wisteria has bloomed - also for the first time the climbing hydrangea. £2.

Blackbirds singing away joyfully. Makes it worth all the bird food I buy 

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Blackbirds singing away joyfully. Makes it worth all the bird food I buy 

Wandering the estate at dusk last night, I heard a particularly inventive one, but they and the robins are all a joy. Woolly cat at doesn't think so, as the blackbirds actually attack her, whereas the robins and wrens merely follow her around and harass from a distance! It's her tail. Non-woolly cat can walk around freely, unmolested.

My walk took in the stream area, where I found one Alder had no leaves. We've lost tenderish plants, but Alders aren't known for being prone to winter damage, so I'm not sure what happened. It will come down this weekend. I've a birch that will be planted nearby.

The slugs are eating my Rheums down there faster than they're growing. Can't go Gunnera as that would be overkill in such a small area. Hmmm....

Edit: It seems the wall-to-wall sunshine is real, at least for now. The forecast for our week ahead looks pretty good too. It looks like my gamble with early courgettes is going to pay off.

twopenny

Nope still cold and east wind - and mating seagulls now 

Farway

Late clocking in today because I had a phone call around 8.30 last night, ex had done her ribs in, so as I was the nearest relative taxi service [off spring are over Southampton way, where dragons play]

Anyhow, suffice to say I spent all night and this morning in A & E, feeding pounds into the parking meter, I think I have bought a new hospital

All was well, just bruises, but of course it takes X-rays & CT scans to prove that

Staff were lovely, but just overwhelmed it seems.

I watched the dawn from the hospital , then the sun came out as promised and I saw my Runner Bean Planting day slowly disappearing down the plug hole as my pounds cascaded into the parking meter

Finally, home about one ish, and made a big effort to get those beans in, job done , let the slug feasting begin

There is more to do, like getting some toms into the pots, but I'm cream crackered, so jobs for later in the week now

Hope you improve 2P, very annoying with work to be done but not able enough to do it

Solved my cress crisis, or may have, trying out a pot of ready grown from Asda, 35P, 70% salad rape & 30% the real thing, worth a try even though I'm not a fan of egg & C sarnies.

In the meantime I have something wasabi grown from West Country seeds given to me by a gent who was cast into the MSE wilderness , I'll try some tonight with my salad

wort

Oh dear Farway hope the ex is feeling better and you managed a little nap in the sun after planting the RB.
The drunkards were right absolutely glorious weather , and looking pretty sunny at the moment today another 7 till 4 work day for me so will miss out again. By the time I got back yesterday put my shopping away and made tea was not worth getting the cushions out to sit out so made do in conservatory. Washing dried though.
The forcast for rest of week is looking hopeful , but that’s a complete 180 from yesterday’s!

So not getting too ahead of myself. If they are wrong about the drizzle which is due just as I leave work I may do the lawn.

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh ribs... I feel that pain  I hope she's alright and they're not broken Farway. Must have been something in the air cos we were at hospital too. MiL tipped up the other night and himself's horrible sisters were too busy uncontactable so we ended up in Hull Royal with her. 19 hours and they announced she was probably fine and it was probably just a bruised back cos she was still walking so it can't be anything serious. No scans or x-rays here though. If you're gonna be poorly do it near Farway, not up here  

Thanks for the link Dusty, I'll have a look. A cat being harrassed by wee birds, why is that so pleasing? Asked the dog person I have some new birds on my feeder - a magpie (which shimmers beautifully when the sun catches it) and a raven or two. Both are anti-squirrel so they move them along but I'd rather they killed them, specially as I think a babby has appeared. Grrr.

I haven't even looked at my garden, I expect it'll need weeding, again. It's a good forecast for today so I'll get some pics. A new thing has appeared - very pretty so it can stop - and I'll get my seeds going. I bought Love in the Mist cos it reminded me of some flowers I had in my last house, Persian something, maybe Persian Dream? They were so pretty and elegant I was sorry to leave them so I hope these are the same by another name I'll be that happy if it runs mad round my garden. I think I'm more of a messy gardener than a perfectly ordered gardener. 

Unless I rip the whole lot of it out and start a freesia factory. Have yous seen the price of freesias! I got some Friday for mum and dad cos they were mum's absolute fave and got myself some for the fragrance was that powerful, and lifted one more cos they don't give you many and I wanted a vase full.... well that's my gardening budget for this year gone!  

Jeez that turned into an essay. Back OT. It's misty out there just now, but it's to warm up later. Possibly. 

Dustyevsky

Farway, someone ought to re-record the old Gene Pitney song as "24hours in Triage" because that's how long a visit to A&E seems to take! I hope  you and ex feel OK now now and you've caught-up with sleep. When Mrs Dusty went immobile back in November, she was also in  A&E 24 hours; just slightly longer than necessary, because I had to travel 100 miles to collect her, her phone was by then stone dead, and some helpful bus driver had just demolished the entrance to that part of the hospital!

Hope your MiL is OK too, Blue Eyes. 19 hours is still a huge amount of time. My record is about 19 minutes, in the middle of Covid, when no one wanted to go into a hospital. I'd scratched my good eye and lost a lot of vision, so I wasn't in the least put-off. Eye specialist chap said "Oh that's not much, you'll be OK!"  and I was sent packing with some antibiotic cream.

Your Persian something was probably this :https://www.happygreenshop.com/flower-seeds/annuals/chinese-pink-dwarf-double-mix-1000-seeds-dianthus-chinensis

We are currently in thick mist, but another glorious weeding/planting day is promised. Yay!