Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Ah you swine, I thought I’d managed to find a fresh topic 🙄 Are they those Yankee wosnames that have been chewing their way up and down our rivers these last few years…? 

Farway

Hotting up already, had to get the hose out and water the *$*%££! plum tree in its pot, leaves were drooping due to dry, I was not expecting to need to do that in September

YoungBlueEyes said:

Ah you swine, I thought I’d managed to find a fresh topic 🙄 Are they those Yankee wosnames that have been chewing their way up and down our rivers these last few years…? 

If they are, I think 'tis the law you are not allowed to put them back, so they have to be eaten or binned

YoungBlueEyes said:

All those toms look delish Farway, and doesn't that one on the bottom of the small red cherry look like the moon  

I never noticed that, but you're right . It's far better than the moon I never saw during the week

2P, sage, mine is very poor, surviving sums it up, I had visions of it as a bush covered in flowers & bees, sometimes taking a few leaves for cooking, dream on as they say

Cunning plan is hatching, next door, the plant killers, planted up the front bit when they revamped it with bog-standard pot marigolds, in typical PK fashion of a line of orange topped soldiers at the front boundary. 

All very nice and now the soldiers are going to seed, which, if unattended, may find themselves deployed at my volunteer border next year

Gardening today, nothing pressing, need to empty tea slops into the compost dalek, check on next crop of apples ripeness and general mooch about a bit, possibly scoff some blackberries while there, now I've picked the majority the birds can have what they want.

Fig leaves are now turning yellow now fruit has gone & autumn is here

The dahlia pics, as I said, nothing spectacular about the flowers except grown from seed and bee magnets, plus I now like the red Bishop's Children one whose flowers stand well clear of the reddish foliage

Bishops Children from seed

Just yellow

Red + bud

Yesterday evening

This morning

pink_poppy

Lovely dahlia pics, Farway. Impressive that you've grown them from seed too.

Are they lobster claws, YBE?? And crayfish, Dusty?? Ugly things, hope they taste nicer than they look.

Guess what... I had a blackbird in the garden this morning!! First time in weeks. It was kind of two-tone, with a light brown head and darker body, so I wasn't sure if it was male or female. Hopefully that's them coming out of hiding now  

Lovely neighbour gave us a load more homegrown cherry tomatoes at the weekend, so I'll be busy doing something with them today. Twopenny, my first thought for your courgettes was to fill them with feta and other bits and pieces to complement the cheese. Yum.

I was at a garden centre yesterday looking (unsuccessfully) for hedging plants. They did have a Merton Thornless blackberry for £7.99 so I might go back for that when I've decided where to put it.

YoungBlueEyes

Yep I think they’re lobster claws. Should’ve put something in the pic for scale, but they were a good foot or so long. Must’ve been a storm at sea cos Filey beach was littered with bits and bobs. Lovely cool breeze up there though  

Bladdy hot here now. I’m only managing to hang the washing and nothing more out there 🥵 I’ll maybe need to water the garden tonight when the sun’s gone off it. 

Yep your moon tom is more impressive than the thing I saw the other night for sure. And I like your dahlias, they’re so ….vibrant? 

This is from last year, my tatty blackie (I say “my” cos I’d spent months ‘training’ him and he was almost eating out of my hand, and then we moved so that was that). This pic is not zoomed in or expanded or whatever, I was that close to him  

Im glad you’ve got yours back pp Hopefully mine are hiding from the heat and will reappear next week….  I’d say your one is a young male - they get their new feathers from the bum upwards, so the head is only light now cos it’s it’s fluff yet to be feathered. 

Hopefully there’s nothing but good news from the hospital today Dusty 🤞🏻

pink_poppy

Imagine the size of the lobster if the claws were that big. I wonder what happened to it. I don't think I've ever been to Filey?? Robin Hood's Bay, Scarborough and Whitby were my favourite seaside places to visit. I'm guessing Filey is further along.
Ps. Dusty, I didn't mean the 'don't eat the winkles' sign was here - it was when we lived in the industrial North East of England  
Pps. winkles, cockles and other shellfish are still sold on the quayside in Whitby.

Lovely pic of your blackbird sunbathing, YBE I didn't know that about them getting their feathers from the bum up.

Well I counted the gifted tomatoes and there's 48 of them haha!! He must have had a heck of a glut. I've put 10 of them quartered into a crustless quiche and the rest have been roasted with garlic and olive oil to go in either a chilli or bolognaise (I don't mind the skins).

The sun has just come out here after a fairly grey start. 24 degrees forecast for tomorrow - too hot for me when I'm at work...

YoungBlueEyes

Aye it musta been a bigg’un! There were plenty of them that size tbh, something’s occurred at sea… 

Filey is lovely. It’s halfway between Bridlington and Scarborough and it’s basically the same thing but smaller. It’s got a nicer feel to it, less ‘just give us your money, stupid tourists’ and more like Brid and Scarb probably were years ago. Gentler. Slower. Far fewer tourists. 

I’ve said that about blackies feathers cos that’s all I’ve even seen (you know, when I see them at all ) I don’t know it’s an actual true fact But you’re welcome to repeat it anyway ha haa! 

Edit - what about red onion and toms topped with cheese as a filling? And worstershershire sauce  

ArbitraryRandom

Farway said:

Hotting up already, had to get the hose out and water the *$*%££! plum tree in its pot, leaves were drooping due to dry, I was not expecting to need to do that in September

The dahlia pics, as I said, nothing spectacular about the flowers except grown from seed and bee magnets, plus I now like the red Bishop's Children one whose flowers stand well clear of the reddish foliage

Bishops Children from seed

Same here - my strawberries in pots (that I've been neglecting a bit now they're mostly done fruiting) were covered in dew this morning but looked all wilted and I was surprised to feel the base of the plants was dried out. One disadvantage of pots, but also a testament to how warm it's been the last couple of days. They got a good water this morning. 

Re your dahlia. I'm not a decorative flower type of girl, but I do love with dahlia specifically how when they bloom they go all out. Petals back, stamens front and centre Not a flower that lacks confidence  

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Ah you swine, I thought I’d managed to find a fresh topic 🙄 Are they those Yankee wosnames that have been chewing their way up and down our rivers these last few years…? 

Oh, sorry!    Yes, as PP and  Farway suggest, they're American crayfish and I'm sure they weren't around when I was a kid, or I'd have known.

Anyway, here's the cooked version...

YoungBlueEyes said:

Hopefully there’s nothing but good news from the hospital today Dusty 🤞🏻

No news for about 10 days till they get the X-rays back from Truprint, or whatever.   Mrs Dusty hasn't had a lot of luck healthwise, though she could now zip about easily on her bionic knee, were it not for these other things. At least we still have a functioning Health Service in these parts, so mustn't complain too much.

Dustyevsky

Computer problems sorted now, hopefully, so while we're still on a see-raised Dahlia page, here's one of mine taken in the rain, a few days ago:

Lots of similarities with Farway's, but it's the little variations which make random breeding interesting.

Off on a walk today, and with more scorchio predicted, it'll better be mostly woodland! Tough call, but I think I have a route.....Yep, in a book! 

wort

Courgettes glut I would make Greek Briam it’s on google it has thin slices of potatoes onion and cougettes in a tomato garlic sauce olive oil, cooked in the oven .yum
YBE I remember eating pomegranate with a pin too, not that I’m overly keen on the taste the pips being bitter to my mind. But the kid in me loved to pick them out.

I spent Friday chopping in the garden ,cut back under the pagoda,the jasmine and evergreen clematis. Caught a horse fly with its Probosis in my arm! Unfortunately I was too late and it had bit me umpteen times . A first for me never had 1 before.
I also took the top off the escallonia, the bamboo in the corner is getting a bit big ,it’s the clumping kind and been in a good 20 years ,I will tackle that corner in winter I think.I managed to cut the lawn too.

The weather has been glorious over the weekend though I was in work and missed the daytime, I sat with family in the garden listening to the local proms in the park and watching the fireworks. They live back to back with the park😉
Ive a couple of days off now and am having some family round for afternoon tea in the garden tomorrow so will make sure it’s decent. 

Dusty I’ve never had crayfish but would be up for trying them, but not the winkles . Hope you get a good result soon.
lovely dahlias there Farway. I haven’t a lot flowering at the moment lots of lush greenery but only white anemones,,clematis ,hydrangeas and weiglias .