Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Ah that made me chuckle 2p. I thought ooh look at the colour of that lily OH MY GOD LOOK AT THAT RABBIT! If you get sick of her I’ll have her  

Oh Farway are your runners save-able? They didn’t all blow over did they?  

Seeds - I’ll get some poked in today then, some in a cluster and some randoms. They’ll be watered in tomorrow that’s for sure. Have yous seen the forecast! Even you should get some 2p ha haa! 

I’m gonna have to have pots galore on my patio (no it isn’t any nearer :rolleyes: ) I got a couple of pretty drapey somethings at the open gardens a few weeks ago and I have to keep moving them for they’re sending out roots all over Lovely neighbour brought me a wee cutting yesterday that’ll turn into backbone, so I need a spot for that now too. His Holeyness has fleas and he has bad reactions to the bits apparently. So as least it’s not contagious. 

Forecast dry here so my washers on. Gotta nip to Big Town to the big Tesco cos himself needs slippers. Might see if I can’t find somewhere that sells properly tall ladders and I’ll get my gutter sorted before tomorrow. My wheelbarrow + wheely bin system isn’t good enough really… 

twopenny

Indeed the rain got here! 
It still didn't make it through the raspberry foliage. I'm going to have to sort them out sooner than I wanted.
I was woken up by the sound of it hitting the roof and I'm a heavy sleeper. Now I can't get back to sleep so it's tired for the rest of the day.
Still it's sunny spells this morning and I'm taking a friend to the wildflower meadow - if it's still standing - for a picnic and leaving my troubles behind for a few hours.

Got the blackberry and ash trimmings into my neighbours green bin last night so it's full. I hope she's not too horrified. It's usually only a dozen flower heads in there.

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Still it's sunny spells this morning and I'm taking a friend to the wildflower meadow - if it's still standing - for a picnic and leaving my troubles behind for a few hours.

Yep, blue splodges, which we just have to dodge, before Armageddon from a 'mobile' Atlantic system sweeps in later and overnight. Global simmering at it's finest... I agree, leave your worries on the doorstep  and enjoy yourselves. 

 Monty may be right, if conditions are favourable. However..... I'm sure my random foxgloves that are around 10cm across now will make it into flower next year, but my experience is that many seem to hold back and not develop so fast. It's nature, betting long and short. Some aquilegias seem to shoot ahead too. Others linger. If you're lucky enough to have variegated foliage ones, they take an age.

No news here. No sign of the wrens. I suppose having the stream running at the start of August is sort of newsworthy. I hear on the grapevine the new owner of the thatched cottage intends to make it a holiday let, which is good in some respects and bad in others. Thinking about it logically, anyone buying it to live in would be stark raving bonkers, given its extreme proximity to the road, and we have enough bonkers neighbours already! 

Farway

Back from blood test, via Morrison's, where a small Brown Turkey fig £2.39 dropped into my trolley, along with blood replenishing jam doughnuts and a reduced for quick sale Kate & Sidney pie to build up my blood iron

There were a few spots of rain on the car when I came out from Morries, supposed to be sunny but obviously lying again

The fig is only a tiny one, and I already have two from my own cuttings, but just couldn't resist now global boiling will ensure it gives two crops a year. I'll pot it on for this year & decide come next where to plant it

Hope the wildflower meadow has survived 2P and picnic avoids rain

YoungBlueEyes said:

Oh Farway are your runners save-able? They didn’t all blow over did they?  

I only have one wigwam and I think a leg has snapped, and it toppled sideways. 

Should be saveable if I can prop up the broken leg, plenty of flowers visible, and I hope to get around to sorting it later, but there again, awful stuff forecast for tomorrow so in two minds whether to leave it until Thursday when the gales etc have gone

I have to get the garden wheelie bin round the back now the binmen have finally emptied it, missed me last time round, grrr , so will check beans out then

YoungBlueEyes

Sounds more like it’ll be the bin that’s horrified for being put to good use 2p  But aren’t lovely neighbours just lovely? I’m hoping to decant my recycling somewhere so I can get blue wheely bin ready for the global boiling, sorry lashing wind and rain that’s coming… Picnic in a wildflower meadow with a friend - heaven. I hope it’s still standing… 🤞🏻

Holiday let might be better Dusty. At least if it’s full of erseholes you know they’ll be gone in a few days  

Oh and happy Yorkshire Day all  

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Holiday let might be better Dusty. At least if it’s full of erseholes you know they’ll be gone in a few days  
Oh and happy Yorkshire Day all  

I may as well celebrate Yorkshire Day, as I forgot Devon Day on 4th June. We do have family in Yorkshire; they went up there many years ago, and we've not seen them since!
Yes, holidaymakers have the advantage of being very short term, but regardless, there's a few dozen rugosa roses and 200m between us, so unless they have a drone or a 200w sound system, we should be largely unaware. It also means a small sliver of land that abuts ours will probably stay wild, which is what it's been for about 20 years. If we got a real gardener in there, I'd feel the need to be magnanimous and  reduce the height of my shade-casting hedge.

Farway said:

Back from blood test, via Morrison's, where a small Brown Turkey fig £2.39 dropped into my trolley, along with blood replenishing jam doughnuts and a reduced for quick sale Kate & Sidney pie to build up my blood iron

The fig is only a tiny one, and I already have two from my own cuttings, but just couldn't resist now global boiling will ensure it gives two crops a year. I'll pot it on for this year & decide come next where to plant it

My figs are only just recovering from being polytunnel-less last winter. No viable fruit.  I sometimes got 2 crops within the tunnel if there was a good summer. At the rate I'm going, they might have somewhere warmish and dry by next winter.

Aquilegias planted and gauntlet thrown down, which is probably why I pricked my thumb on a Scottish Rose. That one's had me so many times now, I fear for its future!

The drunkards keep changing the details slightly, but basically it's only dry for 3 more hours. Back to work!

YoungBlueEyes

Oh aye Farway, you’ve got proper gales and stuff tomorrow  

Well the rain has held off here, despite some thick dark clouds, so that’s my 3rd wash out now. And I’ve spotted a wineberry ripened! Also I’ve a couple of toms (possibly). They feel ripe when I squidge them so I think they’re yellow and done rather than red ones that’s half done. I’m all giggity  

YoungBlueEyes

Pics would help eh. 

twopenny

Ok so that's great.
Now i feel guilty because you did all the right things and I couldn't be Rs'd.
Although life is going south at the mo I could have done better.

Wildflower meadow looked less as the poppies had been hit by the rain but non gardening friend tried and said maybe she could plant wildflowers and flax so a perhaps.
Just looked round her immaculate easy care garden pre set as it was formally a rental with envy. N'er a thing out of place but with fruit trees. I'm still trying to compute.
I think I need to recalculate. Abs and scheme planning may be needed.

Cloud all day, smattering of rain. Picnic ok, watched the sun over Wales as we sat there.
I have a fabulous photo of a scarecrow made of plants for tomorrow. Exhausted today, green bin out to surprise the bin men at silly o'clock tomorrow - and snooze breath....


Oh and Farway, another fig?
I had coffee and toffee crisp tray bake by the sea after the blood test   

pink_poppy

The Sand Martin apartment complex (I love that description whoever wrote it) was demolished by contractors I heard. Fingers crossed it does get back to the original size - it really was amazing.

Aquilegia seeds are still in the container... I'll sow them soon, but probably not for a couple of weeks.

One of my tomato stems (the whole plant is Y shaped) is snapping. I think it's the weight of the 5 toms that are quite big, but not ripe. I might have to snip them off and stick them in a South facing window?? Or sacrifice the top bit of the stem?? Decisions...

Three of my chillis/peppers have got white flowers on them and I STILL haven't repotted them!!

It was a clammy day at work today - hot stuff - forecast rain tomorrow.

Ps I thought my cursor was moving around the screen on its own, but it was actually one of those bloomin fungus gnats!!