Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

BlackCat I've seen trendy Christmas Wreaths made with them. Retail about £40 in the garden centre! Just search wreath made from birch twigs.

Or you could make a Beesom broom from them. I had 2 child sized ones that were great for sweeping leaves on gravel or stone. Bought up carpet pile nicely too.

I still have a bunch of those branches meaning to make one but this year...............

Pittosporum grows like a weed here. I planted a small one and it was a tree before I had chance to think 'pruning'. Varigated with pretty, waxey purple flowers. Sheds leaves like nobodys business but that keeps the weeds down. Great in flower arrangements

Torrential rain and dark all day, now the wind is howling again. Add that to the plumber not turning up again and it's one great day

Did go for a mud paddle in raincoat, waterproof trousers and wellies along a river valley. The water is full and fast, a muddy brown. Surprisingly I had the walk to myself.

Black_Cat2

twopenny said:

BlackCat I've seen trendy Christmas Wreaths made with them. Retail about £40 in the garden centre! Just search wreath made from birch twigs.

Or you could make a Beesom broom from them. I had 2 child sized ones that were great for sweeping leaves on gravel or stone. Bought up carpet pile nicely too.

I still have a bunch of those branches meaning to make one but this year...............

Great ideas tp, especially the wreath! 🤗. There's something about them that makes me smile 😺

Edit:  The branches that is (makes me smile) not the wreath lol.  Love how they are so light and delicate 

DiggerUK

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DiggerUK said:

Regards the Schitzostylis, we have deep pink/red; lots of green this year, not a lot of colour. They weren't too crowded, but have still thinned and spread them around a bit.
What was anybody else's results this season..._

Mine seem to go from strength to strength, the patch spreads rapidly and flowers appear all year round !!!I thought they did well in the last house but here they're rampant 😍🌺

Ours have spread slow and steady, just not a lot of flowers this year. The soil is on the heavy side with a regular yearly mulch including the last leaf and grass cuttings. Gets an occasional scatter of road sign ballast bags as well....No, it won't be salt in the sand as we leave the bags in the stream for a day or two to wash it out. 

They also get their share of wood ash and crushed egg shells, not a lot. Shade from direct sunshine is minimal..._ 

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Rain, rain, rain, and more rain in this part of Somerset, winds gathering speed too - i'm sick of it 😡
Roll on spring time 🌱🌱🌱

...you didn't mention the dark!  Yesterday was a bright, clear day, but even so, the sun had disappeared over the western horizon by 3.15 here.  With today being wet and heavy cloud, I was tempted to have a "sundowner" with lunch!

Yeah, the dark, gloomy, days go without saying 😌
Yesterday I think i closed my blinds and curtains a bit before 4 ....... psychologically quite depressing 🙄😪

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Davesnave said:

Here, it seems a fairly normal winter thus far; a bit on the mild side, but that often changes after New Year. Back in 2012 this was one of our roads to civilisation on 22nd December.....

Needless to say, we chose another one!

I remember that winter D, one of my friends lives in a hamlet in west Somerset and got flooded badly, took months to sort out.

Incredibly mild here this week, up around 14-15C .... craaaaaazy weather !

Farway

Sunny & mild outside at last, still a bit windy, but the sky to the West is has a "look" about it which often leads to rain

The only "flood" around here is where three roads converge in a dip.

According to old maps this dip was a pond before housing so no surprise it floods

Davesnave

Off to get the tree....

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🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄  "It's Chriiiiiiiistmaaaaaaas ..." as Noddy would say 😜🎵🎵🎅🎅🎅    

Davesnave

It was wonderfully sunny in Narnia and no one was wearing masks...... :P

Returned home, had lunch and now there's thunder & lightning and huge hail stones....

twopenny

It's been so wet here the seagulls were 'puddling' in the grass for worms!

I've only seen swans do it in shallow water before.