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Awful weather - typical Brits talk

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  • ArbitraryRandom
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    edited 24 August 2023 at 1:01PM
    Either way, I think we all agree the seed defo looks like something that had fruit around it at one point - meaning it's very unlikely to be something that would germinate/grow quickly (so the leaves in the pot are looking more like something else that snuck in) :) 
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  • wort
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    👋🏻 @farway sorry I’m a gluten free  er . Hope you can still be my gardening friend tho! I have to say it’s most definitely not by choice, I have coeliac disease. Oh how I wish I could eat a big fat pie😈😰
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  • Dustyevsky
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    I'm not going there on virtue-signalling vegans, who drive electric cars and adopt dogs with serious mental health issues. We have one in the family. She means well, and it's better than being related to a drug baron or a TikTok 'celebrity,' but...... :s
    Here's the photo I couldn't post yesterday, though not being juxtaposed with scenes of people frolicking in the sea, it no longer captures the mood of the change in the weather quite so well. :/
    It's definitely much cooler here this morning. Nearly put the heating on, but thought 'That's ridiculous, it's August!' and stuck a blanket over my knees. o:)
  • YoungBlueEyes
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    That's a good pic Dusty, it's representative of the skies I've had these last few days :)  I'm still not sure how I feel about wind turbines. They're not the ugliest thing I ever saw but maybe if they weren't white...? Himself used to work for a fellah called Chris who had *ahem* one or two fields :grimace: He had a load put up on his land, and when you see it from the other side you realise what a 'business' it is. Not so much at all about energy and carbon and saving the world. Some of it was a real surprise (to me), but he knew exactly what he was getting into ;) 

    I don't know what morrison's plants used to be like, but I'm doing quite well with them I think. Better success rate than that garden centre I don't go to any more. The azalea, the hydrangea, the strawb plants and the blue cloud bush thing were all gc and they've all long died. Morrison's stuff is tootling along nicely. So are my B+M plants, now I think about it. A lot of that will be user error, mind. The gc stuff was early days, before I learnt about bfb and puddling etc. But I'm still not for going back there :lol: 

    That's exactly it Arb. There's a something growing while the pip is getting going. Unrelated and not the actual mystery plant. Whatever it is is vigorous though, I can tell you that. 

    Farway, it is usual for a bush to be a duo? Also, I thought brambles and blackberries were the same thing? Like gooseberries and guzzgogs? Wrong again ha haa! 

    Did you have a good hol wort? Doesn't seem 2 minutes since you left! Yeah this thread chugs along at a brave speed and covers a lot of topics. It's like a bunch of people chatting away in a pub - I love it :blush: Maybe your sprawling clematis will make up for the lack of rasps? Coeliac is bladdy awful, my friend Netty has it and she'd give anything for a cure. Dreadful disease. 

    OT Umm more of the same but cooler. Last night was certainly cooler, much easier to sleep :) The drunkards have given rain for this evening, but the sobers and Ventusky reckon not. It didn't rain last night, in the end. Because I put all my houseplants out. Need to get my erse in gear cos I'm taking mum and dad some flowers and I've just overheard my delightful neighbours talking about it being bank holiday. This'll be a full day job then *sigh*
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  • Dustyevsky
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    edited 25 August 2023 at 9:29AM
    That's a good pic Dusty, it's representative of the skies I've had these last few days :)  I'm still not sure how I feel about wind turbines. They're not the ugliest thing I ever saw but maybe if they weren't white...? Himself used to work for a fellah called Chris who had *ahem* one or two fields :grimace: He had a load put up on his land, and when you see it from the other side you realise what a 'business' it is. Not so much at all about energy and carbon and saving the world. Some of it was a real surprise (to me), but he knew exactly what he was getting into ;)
    When we first came here, there was a lot of controversy around the turbines. I sat on the fence until I knew more. Now, I support the single, smaller, privately owned ones that help dairy farmers survive and don't seem over-intrusive. As for the large wind farms, they're visible for many miles and have a number of problems I can't go into here, so I'm neutral on those. Long term, they'll have to improve, or they won't be worthwhile when factoring in production and disposal costs.
    I may have already mentioned a government offer we received this week that could turn our pasture into woodland. It's tempting, as we'd not need to spend out, replacing animal fencing, but it goes against our principles to move away from sustainable food production on good quality land. Here, woodland is usually on the steeper land and less productive soils. I know within 15 years we could be self-sufficient in wood fuel, with logs to spare,  but would you trust the government not to ban wood burning stoves? Me neither! :(
  • Farway
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    Bright & sunny start, grot on the way later allegedly
    Chilly this morning, first porridge for breakfast, winter draws on, blanket over nobly knees not yet required Dusty
    wort said:
    👋🏻 @farway sorry I’m a gluten free  er . Hope you can still be my gardening friend tho! I have to say it’s most definitely not by choice, I have coeliac disease. Oh how I wish I could eat a big fat pie😈😰

    My gluten remark was not aimed at those who really do require GF, more as below, some people just thinking it's a Good Thing, and manufacturers very willing to pander to them & part them from their money
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    Ooooo nasty one Wort. Hopefully there's more choice now it's a thing. 
    I think that aside in the posts was about those who try to force you to be like them.

    Some things are now GF, and to me, they just not the same taste or function, sausages is one I do notice, no more rusk, it's pea / rice flour, soft cheese, now has bamboo fibre, eh, what? Yummy how tasty. 
    And my pet peeve, although I don't think this is GF related, is using seaweed [Calcium Alginate]for sausage skins instead of animal bits. The result is a sticky mess when cooking. Anyway, enough ranting, back on topic

    Look Away now >:) . BH promo arrived, free p & P Mr F & DT Browns, plus 20% off. A quick look seems to me Browns are dearer for same item, so worth double-checking if you are tempted

    Due to yesterday rain PM, nil gardening done, I hope to get some tidying up PM, trim buddleia back now it's really brown & manky
    I also hope to check on the five pears, last year they dropped and rotted before I was ready. Have to be sharp this year, next doors are rotting on the tree already

    YoungBlueEyes said:
    That's a good pic Dusty, it's representative of the skies I've had these last few days :)  I'm still not sure how I feel about wind turbines. They're not the ugliest thing I ever saw but maybe if they weren't white...? Himself used to work for a fellah called Chris who had *ahem* one or two fields :grimace: He had a load put up on his land, and when you see it from the other side you realise what a 'business' it is. Not so much at all about energy and carbon and saving the world. Some of it was a real surprise (to me), but he knew exactly what he was getting into ;) 

    Farway, it is usual for a bush to be a duo? Also, I thought brambles and blackberries were the same thing? Like gooseberries and guzzgogs? Wrong again ha haa! 


    No, it's not usual, which is what makes it strange to me.
    Much the same towards turbines, being engineering background I can appreciate them from engineering "how marvellous" viewpoint, but I understand they can be noisy in proximity. 
    Round here the farmers now grow solar panels, they used to grow wheat, spuds etc, but then found growing horses paid more but the rise in price for planting solar panels obviously pays more

    OT, but this beast went by in 2018 on way to substation from Portsmouth docks, of course I went to look, they had to remove street signs and such like, a real monster, taller than a house
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  • Dustyevsky
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    Farway said:
    Round here the farmers now grow solar panels, they used to grow wheat, spuds etc, but then found growing horses paid more but the rise in price for planting solar panels obviously pays more

    OT, but this beast went by in 2018 on way to substation from Portsmouth docks, of course I went to look, they had to remove street signs and such like, a real monster, taller than a house
    Not my picture, copyright Collets


    Ooh, err! I'll try not to grumble too much when stuck behind the next tractor down Donkey Lane!  Actually, it's not called that exactly, but I'd be hearing from management if I said what it's really called! :D 
    I will grumble about the sites they're now choosing for the solar farms, because they seem much more in-your-face than the earlier ones. Ironically, our top field is not visible from any road or footpath, unless you're on a double decker, so it would be ideal, but at just under 3 acres, it would be way too small. No hay, of course, but sheep go underneath OK.
    Not too bad out there now it's warmed-up a little. Rain on the way by afternoon though!
    :'(

  • YoungBlueEyes
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    If it was me Dusty, I'd be sticking with my pasture land. As long as I was wanting it, and fit enough to do it, or had money/barterings to attract minions to do it, I'd not let them get a look in. And I'd say that about a govt of any stripe. You're better off keeping yourself to yourself imo :) Wind turbines. We do need to be doing something but I'm not sure they're the answer. Maybe they're part of the answer along with xyz, but they ain't the efficient beasts the marketing people/green party/govt would have you believe. Mind, I'm not against nuclear. It just wants some wiseheads on it to sort out the problem of the waste material and it'd be ripe for a 'rebranding'. I hope I see that in my lifetime but I'll not be holding my breath. I don't know much about solar panels, but there's a big field of them round here. They're a better ....bit of the puzzle...? than turbine farms I think. I dunno. I'm not an engineer and nobody's paying me to worry about it so.. 

    That's a great pic Farway, I'd have gone out for a look too :smiley: Just from curiosity really - look at this thing, look at what Man has produced! Wondorous, it really is. Years ago I was seeing a fellah called Alan and he was into cranes :grimace: We'd travel all over so he could look at building sites (honestly it was more exciting than that sounds ha haa) We spent a lot of time in Bruges because they were building something or other and they'd waited ages to get this one crane that was a absolute beast. It was the highlight of his year. All I wanted was to watch the news cos that was the weekend either Obama or Hilary was gonna get in. He didn't know who either of those people were, so that was the end of that. I shoulda held on cos a few months later he went to Japan to look at a something, and I'd love to go to Japan. Ah well.

    OT well the sun came up with a bit of colour to it but nothing special. The sobers last night said we'd a 20% of rain at 6pm, and at 5pm we had a real thunderstorm. The drunkards said just cloud. It wasn't a great one but it was good. My god did it rain! Lots of thunder, bit of lightning, and some hailstones in the middle of it. My guttering disagreed and started coming apart at the seams. I'm not for getting the man back again so himself is gonna lift a big ladder from work and I'll sort it myself. Did anyone else get it?
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