Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Pretty sure your mystery is a Hawthorn.
Can be a massive but beautiful tree with pinkor white flowers. If you keep it clipped down tight to 5ft or so it will be pretty. Berries for the birds and fairy lights for winter.
Soo I didnt close the freezer door a couple of days ago so today getting inches of ice and saving food has taken over my lovely day.
Gardening unlikely - again!!

Cold this morning, a tad of forecasted drizzle and now come out sunny. 
To dry a freezer or get out in the countryside? Of course ill try to do both   

Farway

YoungBlueEyes said:

Jeez Farway if my phone could take pictures like that I’d be ….ummm…. over the moon Here’s what I got - 

Zooming in to just get the moon was even worse ha haa! 

Yeah I reckon it’s lovely neighbours tree too, so what would withstand the onslaught and thrive there, if anything…? I’ve dug all the ivy out now, don’t they produce some roots?! 

Clouded over now, which is nice. And thank god for the breeze too  

This is one of mine that finished up on cutting room floor , I also have nice neighbour trees

Tough on the freezer 2P, hope nothing expensive was ruined

I like hawthorn, not room to grow here But makes a nice tree, I prefer the pink or red blossom ones. 

Fun Fact, one DGD was born on May Day, so it's one birthday I do remember

YoungBlueEyes

Oh no 2p, is all lost…? Least it was user error and you’re not having to buy a new freezer. Sorry that’s not much consolation  

Hawthorn, ok. Lovely neighbour doesn’t know what either of them are called. Next time I’m round here I’ll ask to take pics of the adult ones  

Rain’s stopped play here. Himself has got further down with the de-rooting so it’ll just have to be what it is. I don’t wanna go too far and destabilise the bladdy thing and have it come crashing down on my swish roses. Or wineberry. Or cosmic monipetals! 

Farway what do you plant under your neighbour’s trees? Or have you abandoned that area? 

twopenny

Nothing lost but 2 big bags of veg that I've been wanting rid of for ages.
They've ended on the compost heap  so win win.
Of course I should have put the ice in a bucket for watering but I just wanted the job done. 6hrs 

Gloomy and chilly mostly, sun came out about 4.30 and I spent time out photographing.
Inspired by this guys take on exmoor ponies
https://www.visit-exmoor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/6Q0A2349-scaled.jpg

Autumn colours well on the way and looking lovely. Bright yellow among green and copper coloured bracken. Early this year.

twopenny

Oh dusty, thank you for identifying that tree.
Truely beautiful but beat in a park. It's a bit huge.

twopenny

Thick cloud forcast for today but supposed to be very warm.
Well the weird solid clouds are out there. Looks like someone's built a wall either side with white cloud in between and the sun is putting in a brief experience as it's rising.
Sat in the garden with a cup of tea and the lawn looks lovely and green. Clouds of old fashioned michaelmas daisies for the bees.
But the rest needs doing. Deceased toms, fallen beans, blown down over grown wisteria where and arbour needs making etc etc.
Not sure yet whether to tackle some today or head out for the last of the art shows.
Hmmmmm..

Dustyevsky

Those solid looking clouds were with us yesterday, looking especially menacing over South Wales, but it stayed dry and fairly warm. I didn't see any of the heatwave we were promised in the week. The sky doesn't look very threatening in this photo, but you can see there was a good swell, whipped-up by the wind.

We were on the coast path to avoid wet fields and muddy tracks inland. The stream which produces a waterfall at this spot isn't running yet, so the land is still fairly dry. I don't mind the sections of coast where the path is well back. However, the bit I'd chosen had parts that were too near the edge of cliffs, and rough with it, where the 'proper'  track had fallen into the sea.

I didn't spot many interesting wild flowers.  Silene maritima was growing in a few exposed, windy places, but it wasn't flowering, and neither is the one in the dry stone wall by our back door.

YoungBlueEyes

Well if those are your choices 2p I'd do the art shows. They might be finished in a couple of days but will your garden really suffer for the sake of a couple more days? That Exmoor pic is a cracker, it looks so warm and soft it makes you want to sniggle your fingers in there And good news on the freezer too. 

Nice pics Dusty, very atmospheric. The first path looks alright but I wouldn't be going on the second one. Looks like a little landslide was it? 

Really humid here this morning, I've not opened a window or door I left my houseplants out last night so they got a good drink of raindrops, they like that. The drunkards were right yesterday and the sobers were wrong *gasp* Mind it seems they've learned to copy what Ventusky says so they get it right. Started raining about 3 ish and hadn't finished by bedtime so my plants are well watered Cloudy and humid and nothingy here now and will be all day 'til rain at 5ish. Well it is autumn, my favourite  

twopenny

No wonder your mrs needed new knees Dusty!
I love that bit of coast. Just avoid the path from morthoe lighthouse to lee bay. It's like that but all shale. Beautiful though.

Thanks for tthe permission Bluey  trouble is that's my lifes philosophy and there are so many jobs lined up I'm stepping over things. But they will still be there when there isn't anything else to do.
Think it's an afternoon on the moors to look for ponies and deer. Very windy but that will keep the riff raff at bay.

Dustyevsky

I'd go to the art show too, given my outdoor tasks today, but it's a case of urgency now with jobs like replacing the hen shed roofing felt. Monday's benign winds look good for that! Meanwhile, I have two big tipper loads of logs to get into log shed 3 and catch-up to do on the grass. 

The nearby mower man came yesterday and fixed the ride-on. It was labour only, thank goodness. Apparently, a fail-safe between handbrake and ignition failed because the bit that also senses whether your bum is on the seat wasn't aligned correctly.

YoungBlueEyes said:

Nice pics Dusty, very atmospheric. The first path looks alright but I wouldn't be going on the second one. Looks like a little landslide was it?

The path is just what they've carved out with pickaxes in haste, having lost the real one  to a landslide. It beats me why they still put it so close to the edge!  That bit's not National Trust land. The parts that are tend to be better maintained. There was no go-back option because we'd already walked about 3 miles, doing the full circular route. Most people just drive to the car park and walk to the waterfall (there's another that goes all year) but that's for wimps!

twopenny said:

No wonder your mrs needed new knees Dusty!
I love that bit of coast. Just avoid the path from morthoe lighthouse to lee bay. It's like that but all shale. Beautiful though.

Mrs Dusty isn't up for that sort of walking just yet. That's why we avoid much of the Coast Path, though some parts are OK. My knees hate steps, so Street Map is a handy extra, because it shows those. Mortehoe to the lighthouse isn't bad as a there-and-back, but as you say, Bull Point to Lee is well-known to be hard going. I'm not sure if we'll ever do it.