Awful weather - typical Brits talk

ArbitraryRandom

pink_poppy said:

I have a weird, jellyfish looking alien thing growing in one of my pepper pots - anyone know what it is??

🙄

Googling (which I know is an awful way to identify mushrooms) it looks a bit like a type of ink cap? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasola_auricoma

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/coprinoid.html

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

OT - it’s a lovely warm day here with warmer weather to come next week. Will it be half term in England?? If so, we’ll also have twenty million caravans heading up North, Farway... 🙄

Phew! Just made it back before the M5 and Atlantic Highway begin disgorging the holidaymakers! Had to do a big shop in a hurry because relatives suddenly announced they'd be visiting for the weekend. With equal suddenness, Mrs Dusty decided her knee was well up to driving again, so took off to MiL's for 4 days, leaving me and DD to face the onslaught to welcome our visitors. I'd let the fridge get a little low, and as one visitor is a chef, I felt it only right to have basic ingredients on hand.

I did vaguely clock the Acers on the way out of Lidl. They'd stuck them up on a trolley in the windiest place they could find. They wouldn't like it here, I fear. I do have a few Acer davidii in the mini-wood and the garden, but I grew those from seed, and they're acclimatised.

Wow! If your Solomon's Seal is over, Poppy, what does that say about the climate here? 

"I have four orphan tomatoes from the West Country..... that seed was super virile "

What can I say, Farway? It was much the same with the Balcony Yellows I sowed ; even Juliet herself wouldn't have had enough balconies!

Blazing sunshine and perky east wind here, drying everything out. Off to hoover.....

(Edited, sorry TMI!)

pink_poppy

My Solomon’s Seal flowers were hiding, Dusty 😳  note my nice clean non-gardener fingernails 😉 it also looks like I have a very bendy thumb 😂



And my ‘jellyfish’ fungus has disappeared as quickly as it turned up 😕 I came back from work and it had gone. I’m impressed that I had a little mushroom/toadstool growing though - I would never have guessed that’s what it was.

Another little snapshot of my garden. I didn’t know I had wild strawberries growing there, so that was a nice surprise when I was looking at the photo after 😁 the half coconuts are my DIY efforts that the birds are slowly working their way through. Mr Blackbird had a beak full and he still kept going back for more - I was just thinking ‘that’s plenty, Jack’ (Still Game reference)...

YoungBlueEyes

Still Game - that was good. It is/was on iplayer, I rewatched them all a wee while ago  

No gardening to report. I did buy a couple of poppy plants but I've not planted them yet. My fence eating triffid rose cuttings are a bit happier now. They were in a mug of water but then I planted them in a pot with some ericaceous compost about a week ago and now they've a couple of tiny leaves appearing The red bummed strawberry shrivelled to a pit when I spoke of it so I slung it on the grass for the birds. It wouldn't even have given a blackie a mouthful. 

We used to say something about bendy thumbs when we were at school pp but I can't remember what it was. You fancy girls or you're a mad axe murderer or your face smells like poo. Or something similarly witty and sophisticated  

Miraculous recovery there by Mrs Dusty, such timing too eh! 

As for avoiding the touristing hordes - we're on MiL duty today and she loves Mr Moo's ice-cream, so that's where we'll be trying to get to today :sad:

Cool morning here, sun came up smartly and the breeze did too. Pleasant though. 

YoungBlueEyes

Now the sun’s come round a bit, here is screaming heathen scum’s wisteria. Might have to buy one meself  

ArbitraryRandom

YoungBlueEyes said:

Now the sun’s come round a bit, here is screaming heathen scum’s wisteria. Might have to buy one meself  

Can't you take cuttings/seed from what's over your fence (or are you too law abiding for that)? 

YoungBlueEyes

I'm generally a law abiding sort, but sometimes I do what I think is right

I'll happily take a cutting, I'll read up on how to do it first though.

pink_poppy

We know Still Game word for word, we’ve watched it that many times. We didn’t like the newest series though. Btw, it sounds like you went to a charming school, YBE 😂

It’s raining here today but forecast for scorchio next week. Oh joy...

YoungBlueEyes

Yeah the last series didn't have the same.. feel... to it? I think I've only watched them maybe half a dozen times, but certain things stuck in my head. E.g. it'll soon be rippy affy day!  

I think the school was alright, it was us kids that were 'charming' ha haa!

Today will be our hottest day apparently. then it's downhill next week. Top temps around the 14/15' mark. Gonna be 22' today. I reckon it's gonna feel even hotter cos that breeze has already dropped...

Farway

Sunny start, cold wind though when I poked my nose out earlier, should warm up nicely for sitting in my no air con car in traffic later today

PP, I've got wild strawberries as well, but although nice enough not enough to make a meal, very much pick & eat when I spot a ripe one

YBE, great news on the triffid rose, even better being free of course. And just in time to start air layering HS wisteria, seriously worth a go in case HS rip it out. Never tried air layering but looks easy enough, you could also try the ordinary method of poking some in the ground, and I suppose you could try tip rooting by hanging a compost pot on the fence. All belt & braces

Sunshine miracle cure for Mrs D and her knee Dusty, shame you can't bottle it. Hope the relative's visit goes well, at least the weather is on your side for once

The only gardening today is to plant some Cloth of Gold into the weedy patch in DS's front garden, and hoping it will beat the Mares' Tail into submission. Once planted, they will never be watered or tended to, so fingers crossed. Some Shasta daisies I planted there last year made it to this year, so could be fine if it rains in the next fortnight or so