Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Well I can now enthusiastically join in with the “have you seen the price of materials?!” conversations! Work progressing, slowly. It’s gonna take this month to finish it when it’s only weekend working from next week  

Anyway. Yeah I really liked the gravelly bricks too 2p, it’s an idea I’m for copying. Somewhere. At some point. Another fellah had a bricked slope instead of steps which I liked too. I’ll put that up. I like the arty bits too Farway, the fighting hares and the hidden deer were a surprise as you come round the corner! 

Plenty of gardens looked like your pic Dusty, lovely but not startling. But they gave me good info, which I wrote down like a good girl. 

Thunderstorms and lots of rain is just gonna give floods… 

No sun here (thank gawd) still cool and breezy. 

YoungBlueEyes

Brick slope - 

twopenny

Oh nice. Those are setts though and not slippery.
If you use bricks for a slope you could ski down it in winter 

ArbitraryRandom

Setts 

I learned a new word today  

Dustyevsky

ArbitraryRandom said:

Setts 

I learned a new word today  

  I think they're concrete paviours, now dumbed-down to 'pavers' in most advertising. The setts are forming the edges to the path.

Types of blocks and bricks

There two basic types of block paving; the moulded concrete block (CBP - Concrete Block Pavers), and the kiln-fired clay brick, hence the interchangeability of the terms block and brick paving. In the following notes, concrete types are referred to as blocks, and clays as bricks.

However, both may also be known as pavers, paviors, or paviours, as well as some more obscure terms, not all of which are repeatable in polite company!

https://www.pavingexpert.com/blocks

Dustyevsky

I learned something yesterday, too: there are beavers in our river! There are times when they can't be mentioned in polite company either, but I digress... 

We've had an invitation to see the damage constructions they've been making, which will be hailed as wonderful and exciting...until they create more localised flooding in a place where people already struggle to sell. It's not many people, so it'll just be hard luck. They aren't 'official' beavers, but as the  nearest group of those is over 50 miles away, across Exeter and the M5, I expect they've been introduced surreptitiously.

Yesterday the hay was baled and we got 27 big ones; about 1/3 more than I anticipated, so that shows what I know! Not bad for a place with "no significant agricultural activity!" I've sent the person quoted a few photos.

ArbitraryRandom

Dustyevsky said:

 I've sent the person quoted a few photos.  

Excellent photoshop skills Dusty. Did you use AI?

YoungBlueEyes

Every day really is a school day. Thanks for that Dusty, saves me looking it up and falling down a rabbit hole ha haa! I think a slippy slope sounds like good fun but himself has 10 years on me so probably not a good idea  

Baling is my favourite smell in the whole world, perfect weather for it too. It'll carry on the breeze and everyone can have a share They've not started the cutting round here yet but it'll not be long I don't think.

My plan for that old school milk bottle - alliums and daisies - well the daisies waited for the alliums to die before they came out, so that's the end of that plan

Weather the same, we're deffo in Anti Cyclonic Gloom territory (thanks @Annemos). No change for a few days then it's scorchioooo. They say. Not a drop of rain to be seen for the next 10 days. Thank god we're not on a water meter... 

Farway

Pride before a fall, am I allowed to swear? 'twas only yesterday I posted how well my posh cannas were doing & ready to plant up

This is what I found this morning, the black pots are the posh & expensive canna pots, contents now inside a squirrels' belly I suspect, or maybe some of Dusty's beavers ventured further East

I've not had chance to inspect closely, but I think they've all gone. These were against the house wall, and required a bit of agility to get there, as well as bl))dy cheek, fume, spit & bu66er

YoungBlueEyes

Oh Farway, after all that work and tlc Swear away, we'll not hear you over all the swearing that's going on here (Neighbour - singular, she's left again, house is off the market ) is swearing at us making noise from 0900!

Are your pots definitely empty? Maybe a cat/hedgehog/fox knocked them over in the night? She said, trying to be positive....