Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

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

Nah! I have 11 years on Mrs Dusty, and I still like a slippy slope or two, though going up is generally easier now than down for reasons connected to legs and knees. Anyway, stay out of the rabbit holes, especially the one marked 'UFOs,' as they're preparing us for something more scary than beavers.... and squirrels.....

Cannas? "Ye canna alter the laws of physics, Captain" as Scotty used to say, but he didn't have squirrels in his engine room. That was for the next series and probably a deleted script, due to the number of expletives uttered by space folk clutching chewed through cables. If it's any consolation, Farway, all of mine perished in the weird winter we had here, along with the ginger lilies, and despite being protected.

Edit: While we're on things deleted, whatever happened to the new editor and emojis? Or was that just another of my fantasies?

YoungBlueEyes

I'm staying away from rabbit holes of any variety! I've all on with the !!!!!! squirrels grrr, I don't need anything else on top of it.  I'm meant to be grafting but I did my wrist in yesterday breaking up compacted stony sand with a pry bar Effective at the time but unwise after the fact. Himself has dicky knees too, I think he should get a new pair while he's young enough to get the value of them but he disagrees so...

Are the beavers close to you Dusty? Or will their doings affect you?  

The new editor thing I don't know. It only lasted that day I think? As for emojis I'm mostly just using the ones in the little drop down box at the top of this text box. 

ArbitraryRandom

Today not much is going to happen. I woke up this morning and the world decided to try and kill me - and here's me thinking flowers were anti-war! 

Something I did get done before retreating inside was transferring the little lavender plugs I bought into a large pot outside. I had intended to keep them in on a windowsill until they were a little better, but with the forecast and the fact the cats have tried to kill them repeatedly already, outside seemed the safer bet. Slightly bothered there's not 25  

Once they're a decent size then I can move them again into their permanent home in the front garden. 

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Himself has dicky knees too, I think he should get a new pair while he's young enough to get the value of them but he disagrees so...

Are the beavers close to you Dusty? Or will their doings affect you? 

Farway, the lady I walk with and I use a non-prescription supplement that helps with our knees, but if I told you, the mods would have to kill me. It begins with G and often comes with Ch included as well. Of course, you're supposed to run any supplements past your doctor first. That can be tricky, although mine's very good on the phone. I've not met him, but a bonus is he sounds exactly the same as Toby Buckland, the garden expert guy.

We're about 2.5 miles as the crow flies from the beaver action, but we're flood-proof and our stream dries up, so they wouldn't even sniff at it.

OT: It's bloomin' hot again!

Why are the plants trying to kill you, AR? Have you been licking euphorbia in the hope of euphoria or something? You had to do that to get into our gang when I was a youngster, or you were a wuss! Nobody told us it was a potent alkaloid; we only knew  it made your mouth catch fire! I suppose we could use Electric Daisies nowadays, though as an ornamental they're very substandard. Grew them a few years ago.

https://pullupyourplants.medium.com/the-electric-daisy-yes-this-plant-makes-your-mouth-feel-like-its-being-electrocuted-5c4893509f78

YoungBlueEyes

I can vouch for the G stuff with Ch in it. I gave it to my English Springer Ben to help his joints. You couldn’t stop him leaping off riverbanks or over fallen trees etc but that stuff really helped him. When Daddy’s hands were ravaged with arthritis I fed it to him too, and it did him a power of good. They were only cheapo Wilko ones but I’d recommend them. This is not medical advice etc etc. 

How is the world trying to kill you Arb? Have you wrecked your kharma or summat..? 

twopenny

Arb is so neat and tidy! 
Posh plans and plants measured for space I'm guessing 
Bad news with the cannas Farway. Seems very odd that they are targeted.
Dusty, we have beavers to deal with flooding. They drain the areas that flood.
Bad news is that they LOVE fruit trees -  so metal surtonds for any you treasure.

Farway

Back again post canna inspection. I've lost a couple but three have survived, however no sign of shoots in there, so maybe they were eaten ? I've replaced the compost & moved them into the conservatory and will just have to see how it pans out

However, silver lining, because by then I had my gardening clogs on, so I tied in the tomatoes, and the goosegog, then cleared the dead daff foliage in the front pots, the ones the cannas were going to be in [sobs quietly ]. Popped the last potted up self sown foxgloves in the canna less space, may as well get some benefit

And another silver lining, the dahlias I thought were dead, there are some shoots showing, it's a very later spring this year to be sure. I'll now need to sprinkle a few blue slug sweets around them while I'm ahead

Dusty, mouth on fire as a younger. Yep, not from licking flowers through, we used Cow Parsley stems as pea shooters and finished up with burning lips, although I don't think it's poisonous but doubt it's advisable to eat it

Nice looking lavenders AR, hope you survive whatever it is

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Dusty, we have beavers to deal with flooding. They drain the areas that flood.

Mmmmm, not really. Their dams are supposed to slow the flow in upland areas and reduce the effects of flash flooding, but that's more appropriate to longer rivers than we have. The beavers here are not in an upland area; it's only 50m above sea level. When a tree comes downstream in a flood to be caught at the bridge, the river then comes out and goes around, possibly entering a couple of properties and usually closing the road. Even 3 miles upstream would be OK, but the beavers haven't chosen to go there.

-taff

Started anticyclonic [wow!new word!] and finished sunny as a sunny thing. I've potted on, up and sown everything I can do yesterday and today so now I can't move and must sit down with tea for the rest of the day [ after making chicken shawarma and pork meatballs - reduced in lidl] for the next couple of days. I finally gave in with the lovage and have uprooted it and stuck it in a pot. It doesn't like it where I put it and I love the stuff so will just keep it potted until I find somewhere else for it. I've also finally made my succulent dish with bought or ::cough:: acquired items. It's amazing how fast they grow.

Sorry about your pots Farway..It is surprisingly tough to lose plants to predation. Or even no space to grow them as I feel guilty when I put tomato seedlings or whatever into the compost bin...

ArbitraryRandom

Sorry, wasn't trying to be cryptic. 

Had a bad night and woke up 'fuzzy feeling'; nearly went a cropper down the stairs when the cat decided she MUST get to the bottom first; then when watering the plants got whacked in the face with pollen as the temp rose (which goes towards explaining the bad night and head, if not the cat). 

First day this year my antihistamines haven't worked (I'm currently on double dose of two different types and still explosively sneezing at random) so I've had a shower, shut the windows, and I'm hiding away inside feeling pathetic. Rain is forecast for overnight on Saturday which will hopefully help. Only 30% chance for one hour but better than the >5 we've had for weeks now. 

I swear, I spend the whole winter moaning about being cold/the energy bills - then all summer complaining it's too hot or the world is trying to kill me... Roll on autumn and the lovely colours.