Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Thanks for that Dusty, either of those flowers would please me so I'll add them to the 'keep my eye out' list   MrsD is fit and well again then clearly! I like a slopey hedge myself, better that than cut like a square box. 

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say your clematis will be fine Farway. I'm forever reading how tough plants are and they'll pull themselves round from almost anything I'm looking forward to having daffs and red-bummed bees galore, it'll make my heart smile. 

A week Friday it'll all slow down (not that I'm counting). It'll also give someone else a chance to get on the front page...

Farway

pink_poppy said:

Farway, is it worth checking your council website to see if the binmen will collect your bins and return them to your garden?? My neighbour isn't very mobile and when the binmen are doing their rounds they go into her garden to get her bin, empty it and then return it. I know someone else in a different authority who has the same service.
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They will do this, but due to local design mine live out the front, permanently parked on the public pathway, along with everyone else

The pathway is a dead end, so not a hazard to anyone who does not live on the same row as me, the only people walking by live here and have their bins on the path as well

In my not emptied case, the bin men never walked up the pathway, or they would have seen the bin, I hope to phone again tomorrow but not expecting much more than a sorry we'll send them along etc

twopenny

I'm having a similar problem as I drove out past the recycling and realised I hadn't thought to put the rubbish in the boot. It was nice and quiet too. Car goes for inspection tomorrow and tues is window repair day. I may see if I can use space in my neighbours bin.

Only gardening today was dragging the fallen wisteria away from the heating exhaust.
Bitterly cold and ive all the window seals removed ready for new. The heating went on.
Car washing to make it look worth saving next. Christmas cake made.

I did have a moment of gardening inspiration though and need to check if I can hammer through stoney ground to do it. 
I really need to get on with putting up posts for my cave shade in the corner but at the rate it's still growing I may be able to plait the wisteria instead.

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Thanks for that Dusty, either of those flowers would please me so I'll add them to the 'keep my eye out' list   MrsD is fit and well again then clearly! I like a slopey hedge myself, better that than cut like a square box. 

A week Friday it'll all slow down (not that I'm counting). It'll also give someone else a chance to get on the front page...

'Amistad' is a lot earlier, so you get more flower power from it, plus the chance to do easy cuttings.

Mrs Dusty has been ordered to rest now. The size of our November 5th bonfire is embarrassing!

As you know, I can never find the Atlantis-like front page, but if you've been on it, congratulations!

Speaking of cuttings, we need about 35 Berberis darwinii, so I pushed 40 into the cold frame this afternoon. Now I have to build another cold frame! And speaking of cold, boy, was it chilly when we came in at 18.00 tonight! Drunks say enough cloud to keep off frost, but they had one of those in the valley this morning. The polytunnel needs its doors and side vent windows, pronto.

ArbitraryRandom

Talking of binmen, here they won't take wet cardboard (and I often have more than will fit in the little box they give us/they won't take it if you put it in a bag or different container), so I was checking the 'tusky app to see if I could put things out Tues for collection on Wed or if it was something I'd have to do while rushing to the train station first thing.

Wet, followed by wet, and a bit more wet. Not too cold though still (tonight I think is the coldest at 8/'feels like' 4). 

YoungBlueEyes

Plait the wisteria - that made me giggle 2p. Fingers crossed for your car today  

I think I can picture your bin setup now Farway. Have you any strong'uns or yoofs among your neighbours that could get all the bins to the road end of the pathway? Then they could collect them in one fell swoop. Do half the work for them and they might start playing ball? 

Yep I'm on the front page but it's not gardening related. I bought a couple of Winnie the Pooh drawings in a charity shop and I was wondering if they're real. So I took photos and put them on the charity shop thread. The wiseheads said if you magnify right in and see if they're dots then they're repros, which I did and they weren't Took them to an art gallery in Beverley, and they are real sketches but "not recognisable as the work of the artist" (or somesuch). 
It's not on the carousel of pics, it's a story in it's own box about halfway down. 

Dusty how does a person need 35 Berberis darwinii...? Isn't that the little holly thing that I have? Are you planning on being a tree farmer now? 

Arb would your neighbour take in your cardboard so it stays dry, then put it out with theirs..? 

Lots of wet coming, according to CountryFile weather. Wed + Fri for us, but the inbetween days are bright and clear. Warming up again too thankfully, it's musical out there again this morning (3' ) but a slightly less windy rerun of yesterday. That'll do me cos it's domestic nonsense day. Again. 

ArbitraryRandom

YoungBlueEyes said:

Arb would your neighbour take in your cardboard so it stays dry, then put it out with theirs..? 

I'm sure they wouldn't mind; I'm equally sure there's no chance I'm going to ask  

(I have a limited tolerance for interacting with people irl and the events are kinda sucking the life from me this month)

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Dusty how does a person need 35 Berberis darwinii...? Isn't that the little holly thing that I have? Are you planning on being a tree farmer now?

It's because I've decided to hedge the new entrance we hope to create with it, rather than using fencing. It's very bird-friendly, and once established, intruder proof too. Pretty spring flowers are a bonus. People who objected to our plans didn't like losing the hedge, so now they won't, though they'll have to look at privacy netting for a few years instead until the plants are established. Every choice comes with  consequences.

T'was about the same temperature as your area down here this morning, but too much wind for frost. I bagged 900l of heating oil last night, just in case 'developments' elsewhere impact that next. Might have had more, but my highly technical wooden dipping stick has gone missing and I've learned not to trust the electronic one!

Here, just for Farway, is my haul of  Lakemont grapes.....Yes, all of them! g

Farway

A bit of an "off day" yesterday, my Saturday 'flu jab did succeed in giving me "flu like symptoms" as per advice sheet, so it was under a blanket watching YouTube and eating banana bread that I had the foresight to make earlier

After Lemsip aided sleep, I'm fine this cold & sunny morning

Dusty one of the things I watched was GW, and it was with mixed feelings I saw her, [Francis whatname] Lakemont grapes were also rubbish, and I think she has a mis label as well, because hers were green ones. But at least you both had some

To rub salt even further into my wounds, they visited a posh house in Devon, where their cannas self seed in the borders ,

YoungBlueEyes said:

I think I can picture your bin setup now Farway. Have you any strong'uns or yoofs among your neighbours that could get all the bins to the road end of the pathway? Then they could collect them in one fell swoop. Do half the work for them and they might start playing ball? 

Actually it's not too far for me to trundle the bin to the end and I may have to swallow my indignation & do it . There is only one bin, mine, the rest are fit & too mean MSE to pay council to take bin, so they go to tip with garden waste

Although sunny it's darn cold, heating came on automatically this morning, first time this season. Boiler is booked for annual service in November to help me spend my Winter Fuel allowance

Nothing planned outside with the cold wind, I still have to pot on the saved coleus, but that is about all

Best of luck with car 2P, we seem to be having reasonable MOT success on here, may need cash injections of course, and, like Trigger's Broom, some new parts

YoungBlueEyes

Them damn filthy drunkards have lied to me! I’ve 2 loads of washing done and out ready for the wind to pick up, and it’s dropped entirely! Wind speed 1mph, gusts of 1mph. Grrrr 😡 Well it can stop out there now for I’ve no tumble dryer. The sobers and Ventusky called it right *sigh*

That’s a beggar about your cardboard Arb, but bonfire night is coming… 

A flowery holly hedge sounds lovely Dusty, impatient neighbours be damned ha haa! 

Glad you’re back on fine form Farway. Re your bin, I think I’d be ringing and ringing and ringing the council then, as you’re paying for them to collect it. Lazy swines.