Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Well it's a wildly warm 10c here!

But its blowing largely and raining so that's another day of no gardening. I miss it.

Also missed the walking group and dancing so I'm getting pudding like more each day.

Bluey don't worry about your lambs ears. They're tough old things and will come good with more light and warmth - same as us

So fed up of the barely see in front of you days but only a fortnight to go and it starts to get lighter. On the 18th I see we get a few minutes a day longer in the evenings!

A bit darker I remember in the mornings from my working days......but nearly there.

Can't walk again today so looks like I might go for a drive just to get some light. Maybe the garden centre but mainly for the scones and coffee.

Abs, beautiful designs. I used to get lace wings on my walls of summer evenings when I had the door open. A miracle that something so delicate could survive.

I used to get lots of pretty moths too. Seems no so now. Along with insects we no longer get on car windscreens and number plates they've vanished. I used to have to clean the windscreen every two days and carried a spray to clean them off while commuting.

Found this little nugget on weather, love the photos. May just have to join Twitterx.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-64458857

What a stupid thing to change the name. Twitter and you can 'tweet' a post. What the heck can you do with x and why?

Farway

Dustyevsky said:

YoungBlueEyes said:  If you believed this morning's meeeja you'd be thinking the 4 horsemen were about to trot up the road  

Be ready with your bucket then, just in case!

Farway said:

My mobile phone tells me rain is due about 10ish, any minute now then, and it certainly looks like it could be true this time.

Dustyevsky said:

Seeing the lacewing, and the way they hibernate behind things like pictures on a wall, reminds me of a queen wasp I found while replacing the hen house window the other day. At the bottom, where it hinges, there's a piece of flexible black plastic used to direct water away from the frame and over the sill. Behind that, was the wasp. The window and plastic were off for a good few hours, but wasp didn't wake up, and she was still there when I reassembled the window and frame. I will be interested to see if wasp survives the winter, shielded from the weather by something just a millimetre or so thick.

I agree with the money speculation Dusty, slowly slowly catchee monkey as they used to say in non woke times

Yes, a bit near the bone for monkeys, though I have sympathies with those that are caught and imprisoned unnecessarily. OTOH did you see the ones that nick tourists' phones and other possessions, and then bargain for food with their owners for safe return ? Evolution in action, right there!

The evolution us oldies readily can relate to is the birds pecking through milk foil tops for the cream

twopenny said:

Also missed the walking group and dancing so I'm getting pudding like more each day.

Can't walk again today so looks like I might go for a drive just to get some light. Maybe the garden centre but mainly for the scones and coffee.

Found this little nugget on weather, love the photos. May just have to join Twitterx.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-64458857

What a stupid thing to change the name. Twitter and you can 'tweet' a post. What the heck can you do with x and why?

I can relate to pudding like, unfortunately.

Hope the GC goes well, say hello to the singing Polar bears for me,  I've not yet made it to my one, too wet and I'm not going weekends

Isn't his daughter named X? And he's named it after her, but I think he has a very odd sense of humour as well, a lot of tongue in cheek & winding up all the "right" people. His rocket was initially named Big F*** Rocket, now it's Starlink to save us clutching our pearls.

twopenny

Changed my mind about even going out for a drive!
Went to put stuff in the car and the 'light rain' soaked right through and there's an bitter chill out there. 

Didn't picture you in pearls Farway.
I do now 

YoungBlueEyes

The Oracle is in great shape prep-wise (naturally). She was just on her way out the door - something to do with checking the Ukrainian refugees are fed and watered. Or summat.

Inbuilt anti-freeze... that rings a bell here too. Fingers crossed for the wasp. Nature is pure wondrous sometimes isn't it, 1mm doesn't sound anything like enough protection. Shows what I know.  Horses (apocolyptic or no) trot along the road at the end of our road quite often, so I've carrier bags and nappy sacks in all my coat pockets. 

I've not been anywhere exotic enough to see bartering monkeys, but I really want to now. I've been up wosname rock on Gib a few times, but those monkeys are nearly sort of tourist trained and not the same thing at all.

Farway would your cannas be happier sitting in your conservatory to dry out if it's not the cold they mind? 

Your Walking Tractor link was good 2p, I enjoyed that I know what you mean about the warmer brighter weather doing everything/everyone a power of good. I'll probably not be gardening again now 'til Spring, unless something desperate happens and I'm clearing up the damage. #Shawshank innit. 
I don't know anything about twitter now, I was kicked off years ago for saying ...things. But if we go with that fellah's suggestion of "TwiXer" does that make each post a TwiX...? Good luck finding daylight on your drive  

Farway

YoungBlueEyes said:

I've not been anywhere exotic enough to see bartering monkeys, but I really want to now. I've been up wosname rock on Gib a few times, but those monkeys are nearly sort of tourist trained and not the same thing at all.

Farway would your cannas be happier sitting in your conservatory to dry out if it's not the cold they mind? 

Snap with the Gib apes, they nick anything, and I was very wary of them. And the Japanese hot spring monkeys learnt from humans

https://www.snowmonkeyresorts.com/smr/snowmonkeypark/snow-monkeys-in-the-hot-spring/

My cannas in conservatory, you're right, but they are heavy, and I am not physically able to lug them through the house to the conservatory. I could dig them up etc but growing from seed, and not flowering I CBA they will take their chances! Unless I can find a monkey willing to learn a new trick

It's absolutely pouring, dark & gloomy, hose pipe ban should be lifted soon

ArbitraryRandom

Just got home and I'm freezing cold (plus the house is cold) so I'm not going to venture out again today I think. Luckily I have been sat on the train for a good few hours, and have avoided any showers. I stopped by a food market on the way to the station and picked up some lovely looking goats cheese and Irish mature cheddar, so that'll be a nice addition to a little cheese plate at the weekend, plus some in the freezer for Christmas  

It's been a bit of a weird day... it was quite bright early on, but it's almost like it just stayed that way with the sun never fully coming out. I thought it was the train windows, but unless someone tinted my glasses/house windows while I wasn't paying attention, the sky has been almost a reddy brown all day. It's honestly looked like the cheap tints you can get on glasses - and now the sun is setting again it looks positively sepia. 

ps. down to 36 book left thanks to lots of time on trains  

Dustyevsky

Strangely, what the instantly forgettable Deputy PM said about being prepared didn't include seeds. My last batch arrived this morning, including enough toms to take us into 2025. I'm not sure why, but my second favourite tomato, 'Floridity,' is scarce this year, so it might have vanished altogether by spring. Simpsons Seeds are cheapest at £1.90 for the standard 10.

I checked out our Lambs' Ears half an hour ago Bluey, and they weren't holey, but very soggy, ragged and discoloured. They've been where they are since 2010 and I can assure you they're very hard to kill! It was too dark for a photo, at 15.30!  That's roughly when the rain stopped here. It's been steady, not intense.

twopenny

Just to wind Bluey up, I had a face off at dawn on a river in Borneo 
Bit scarey - but then so am I at that time in the morning!

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh bladdy hell 2p! Was that with a monkey or a person or what? This one I'm really wanting more details on!

Farway have you no neighbours that'd give you a hand? Or are you a #Shawshank convert now? Hee hee. I love the snow monkeys. Watching them in the hot springs I don't know how anyone can deny evolution. I know they're not our closest relative but my god aren't they just small hairy people. I don't like the Rock apes, it's their eyes - you know they're calculating and scheming and waiting 'til your back's turned. And they wouldn't be a bit sorry if they hurt you either. 

That's good going on your book total Arb, reckon you'll finish the rest in the next 3 weeks..? 

I'd say if I had to survive on edibles produced from my seed 'stash' I'd be deed by morning. Unless it was in summertime then I'd never be off the loo cos all I have in the way of food is toms Mind you can grow tatties from a cut of a tatty so there's that.  

Dry here at the minute, but the whole place is sodden. Jeez we had some rain yesterday, but not as bad as they said. It didn't really get going 'til mid-aft and then there was plenty of it and it lasted beyond bedtime, but it really wasn't horsemen category like wot they said. Actually the 'warmth' that came with it was welcome, it was kinda autumnal. No sepia light like you got though Arb, I wouldn't mind that today Forecast is dry all day, top temp is 9' and a bit gusty breezy. Hell I might even put a wash on. 

Dustyevsky

Looks like a decent day here too; a tad windy perhaps, but dryish and 10c at present. Sadly, I have to go and buy candles, batteries, and some dried/tinned victuals, so awful no one will eat them before the incoming emergency. Looks like I won't have time to work in the great outdoors today.

In my absence, here's another arty-farty thing from Rosemoor, with me taking a photo of whatever it is.

I quite like the effect, but more butterflies were possible.