Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Jeez Dusty, you’re not fit to be let out! You’re not badly strained I hope? Maybe it was your punishment for entering Narnia… 

Im envious of your toms Farway, I don’t know if I’ve a yellow one left after all the no labelling and giving away I did, but I hope so  

Mucky mauve, that’d just be my luck 

Farway

YoungBlueEyes said:

Mucky mauve, that’d just be my luck 

Just had to pop back, mucky mauve can be nice in some flowers, just taken this of my hibiscus, grown from seed a few years back & starting to open this year's flowers

Dustyevsky

Just miskeyed and lost my post.

Farway said:

Not a very pleasant stroll by the sound of it, Dusty, at least it ended OK, if a bit shamed, hopefully the strain will come to nothing. Is there mobile reception around there, or is beyond the clutches of phone companies? Just asking because a mobile map app may have helped, like Runkeeper, Waze or even Google Maps

The arm's not badly strained, thanks. I can't expect one arm to take 11 stone travelling at speed without some penalty. At least the arm got there and saved the head!

We had phone reception on top of the hill, but coasts and deep, narrow valleys elsewhere may be problematic for signals. I've used Google Maps, but it kills some of the fun we have problem-solving. Of course, in a few years, when we may be past the lesser walked trails, things may be different, but even with the 'book' ones, we get locked gates, ploughed-up tracks, grass a metre high, herds of bullocks and missing posts/markers.

As I've some 'white' aquilegia seed, I'll join in with the challenge. Although other colours will happen, my experience is a large proportion will come fairly true.

A text message from an old friend made us drive to a nearby town to listen to brass bands today. It wasn't what we'd had in mind, but it was lovely relaxing in the (almost) sunshine for 2 hours.

Cracking colour on that Hibiscus, Farway!

Gorsebush

You bounder, Fairway, I had to run to my safe place, and because I'm old and a bit stiff I nearly did a Dustyevsky and went rump over noddle!  Anyway, congrats on having ripe tomatoes, I am 🤢 with envy. 
Glad you didn't sustain any serious injuries Dusty, slippy downhill bits have to be taken very carefully as one gets older. Even an innocent looking gravel track, if it's got a bit of a slope, can be treacherous with the gravel acting like rollers underfoot. I wander about in the forest every day with the dogs (who sadly have no 1st aid skills) uphill and down dale. I often wonder what they'd do if I had a mishap. Probably muck about and get into trouble! 

Posting a picture of my squash. It's just a baby, about 4" and it's taken the opportunity to climb up a bit of wire "trellis.". Also a pic of two weeds growing in a pavement. Neither of them I've noticed in the area before. Seemed odd them springing up side by side, and both have quite attractive foliage, especially the yellow one.

Gorsebush

Here are the "hydroponic" lettuce plants growing in a gravel bog filter for the fish pond. All the plants are sustained by fish poo...

Dustyevsky

Gorse, I think your weeds are Hawks-Beard (Crepsis capillaris)  and an old favourite of this thread, Purple Toadflax  (Linaria purpurea)

As we've had the latter in its purple form before, I'll supply it in pink this time. This is the garden variety 'Canon Went.'

As for new weeds here, we have a different form of dock, with smaller, more numerous leaves. It's popped-up to become common in the last couple of years, so it's in the hedgerows as well as our fields. I saw it yesterday on the big hill many miles away, so it suddenly seems endemic.  Must be down to climate change.

Gorsebush

Oh Dusty, I just watched that before you posted. I've been a fan of Mahya since the referendum of 2016! For a Persian he's pretty cool. 

Thanks for the quick identification of the plants. The Canon Went looks splendid and tall? 

Dustyevsky

Gorsebush said:

Oh Dusty, I just watched that before you posted. I've been a fan of Mahya since the referendum of 2016! For a Persian he's pretty cool. 

Thanks for the quick identification of the plants. The Canon Went looks splendid and tall? 

I think Mayar would say he's a Brit now. He came here as a youngster when his mother fell out of favour with the regime in his home nation. 

'Canon Went' is very variable size-wise, according to local conditions. I've had a few at a metre, but most are only half that.

YoungBlueEyes

If that's mucky mauve Farway I'll be very happy with that, it's such a pretty colour And I'm full of pond envy Gorse! 

That was some video Dusty, I've not seen him before but he seemed to talk a bit of sense. One thing I don't like is this new (?) BBC Verify thing. Well aren't they verifying everything? It makes it sound like anything on their normal programs is a bit hit and miss  Anyway that's enough proper talking, my brain's fried from the last 2 hours trying to sort car and home insurance. We've been in this house a year nearly   It's up in the air again whether we're for stopping... viewings have long dried up next door and no offers. They haven't reduced the price but I don't know if they will cos surely they would have done it by now if they were going to   

Didn't stop me raiding the reduced shelf of B+Q yesterday. We went in for string and some clip things to hold up saggy plants. Came out with a couple of roses for the pretty colours, 2 wee fuschias called snowcap - we were watching a thing about Japan the other night so that seemed like a good omen, a big bag of compost, some Roseclear, a load of seeds - one is a packet of diddy yellow toms called peardrop for that's the shape they are , and 2 more pairs of work trousers for himself, and a big box of bfb. Buy shares in B+Q people. Then out to Morries for a couple of bits and lifted 3 snapdragons (only £2.50 each and a wee thing called Irish Silk cos the leaves are so tactile. They feel a bit like lambs ears but less fleshy. 

OT still nothing of note in the dawn/sunset department. We had a properly sharp shower come over before 6 and it's drizzled since then but it's brightening up now. Showers on and off today so if I get my timings right I'll get my new plants in and mother nature can water them in  

YoungBlueEyes

Gorsebush said:

Oh Dusty, I just watched that before you posted. I've been a fan of Mahya since the referendum of 2016! For a Persian he's pretty cool. 

Thanks for the quick identification of the plants. The Canon Went looks splendid and tall? 

Being pro-Arab I gasped and clutched my pearls in mock horror when I read that :l:lol:

Which reminds me - I never got that yootoob vid thing sorted. I bribed a 9 year old to do it for me, and she was about to when Harry Styles said something on toktik and suddenly I didn't exist any more. :rolleyes: