Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Bah, typed it all out and pressed wrong button, boo hoo. Start again.

Raining, dull & gloomy, no gardening today

My puncture, RAC man fitted my spare wheel because I have a Leaky Rim , DS suggested I eat more roughage to prevent a Leaky Rim.

Extensive research [Duckduck[ shows LR can be expensive new tyre & wheel or cheap refit the tyre. I'll wait until the hols are over before I try the local tyre place for their advice and solution. Used to be able to just fit an inner tube but these days no idea on legalities or practicalities of that.

Hope you find your rose 2P, of course with the situation in the Red Sea and ships now going round the Cape I expect shortages of everything, loo rolls anyone?

Nice flower there, and forsythia, coo, you're an early bird

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

My puncture, RAC man fitted my spare wheel because I have a Leaky Rim , DS suggested I eat more roughage to prevent a Leaky Rim.

Extensive research [Duckduck[ shows LR can be expensive new tyre & wheel or cheap refit the tyre.

Hope you find your rose 2P, of course with the situation in the Red Sea and ships now going round the Cape I expect shortages of everything, loo rolls anyone?

When I discovered I'd a VW wheel on my Honda as a spare,  I found a whole alloy wheel and tyre on the Bay for £20. Had to go 25 miles for it, but might be worth a look. I still have the VW wheel....fits Golf, Passat etc if anyone wants it.

Shh, about the shhhortages. I have a personal Andrex mountain I'm hoping to cash in on when the SHTF!  I won't Mone if it doesn't happen, though! 

Been to the quack, who says I need to visit fizzio, like Mrs Dusty. She's just been signed-off by them.   Apparently they will assess whether I'm bad enough to need X-rays, or just swinging the lead. In the latter case, they'll give me a badly photocopied sheet of impossible things to do with a big ball and send me home. Our big ball scares the hell out of the cats, so it's probably bad news for them.

Stopped raining, I'm off to pick up more detritus.....

twopenny

What a difference a day makes!
Flat dark rain grey sky with a strong cold wind 
Perhaps it will turn like the other day and become mild and bright.
Good washing day maybe.


I thought about multiple layers and getting into the garden but there's no real incentive because the siols so wet and claggy.

Hair cut midday so can't get a day out. Seems like a day for a shopping mall, bright light and festive fun but nne of those around here.
Not often you hear me make a choice like that!

Dustyevsky

It's forecast to stop raining, but not to brighten any, 2p. I'm off for a meal with a friend and *maybe* a quick walk on the estuary, but it looks like the NW wind will make that unlikely.

I've not done much Christmas shopping, and certainly not in bright shopping malls, but I might pop into the Pannier Market in a local town tomorrow.

It's quite bright here at present, despite the weather. Mrs Dusty has been at the decorative arts for two days, and the tree can't take any more!

Farway

Just damp & grey, likewise for damp & claggy soil so zilch gardening.

One plus from my Leaking Rim, having to clear the car boot out for a spare wheel I found long-lost secateurs and a trowel so that's the silver lining

Nice tree Mrs Dusty

Dustyevsky said:

Farway said:

My puncture, RAC man fitted my spare wheel because I have a Leaky Rim , DS suggested I eat more roughage to prevent a Leaky Rim.

Extensive research [Duckduck[ shows LR can be expensive new tyre & wheel or cheap refit the tyre.

Hope you find your rose 2P, of course with the situation in the Red Sea and ships now going round the Cape I expect shortages of everything, loo rolls anyone?

When I discovered I'd a VW wheel on my Honda as a spare,  I found a whole alloy wheel and tyre on the Bay for £20. Had to go 25 miles for it, but might be worth a look. I still have the VW wheel....fits Golf, Passat etc if anyone wants it.

That cunning plan is my Christmas recreation, better than crud TV at times. First stop is very close by scrapyard recycling centre then it's onto the net, all that once I find out wheel sizes of course. Mind you, having just bu66erd up my recurring grocery delivery slot, I could finish up with a tractor wheel.

twopenny

Where's Bluey?

On a detox

YoungBlueEyes

I'm here 2p Things are going a bit wrong tbh but I'm channeling king wosname and his ring - this too shall pass. Anyway I'm pretty sure I overshare as it is ha haa! 

Your helebore is cheerful eh Nice and low to the ground so when you get that swish rose it can climb all above it, that'll be some display (Have you got one sorted yet? Have ya have ya? Or bookmarked the page?) If you're still looking for something to do - Shawshank was on bbc1 last night so it's prolly on catch-up. Cracking film, it really is. 

That's a properly christmassy tree Mrs Dusty, are the cats/ferrets/Dusty banned from that room  

Hopefully your car wasn't overly expensive and you've got a good scrappy environmental green centre nearby Farway? I may not know much about rims but I know you don't want em leaking

No gardening done here either. It is starting to dry out become marginally less squelchy with the weather we've had. Breezy out there now too but it's for picking up overnight and it'll be properly windy tomorrow - storm Pia, apparently. They've raced through the letters eh, I didn't even noticed all the intervening storms...   

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

That's a properly christmassy tree Mrs Dusty, are the cats/ferrets/Dusty banned from that room

The ferrets are banned from the entire house, but the cats are only banned from the bedrooms. They have their own access flap to the conservatory from the boot room. Though middle-aged now, the cats have always been surprisingly respectful of the Christmas tree and decorations, apparently recognising them as 'human stuff' that's probably best not messed with.

I hope whatever was wrong is more right now, Bluey. We had a ginormous meal, which would have benefited from a brisk walk-off, but the heavens opened, and it was generally cold and unpleasant. Surveying the coastal garden, we spotted penstemon, geum, iberis, and some bedraggled rudbeckia still in flower, but nothing looking as good as 2p's Hellebore.

Where's Storm Pia come from? She isn't even on the list, so she must be an impostor! Here's the official list:

There is a Piet, but isn't that a bloke's name? Piet Oudolf is a famous gardener Dutch garden designer, who let the grass grow under his feet and invented prairies. Basically, if you stick a few Echinaceas, Heleniums and Rudbeckias among loads of tall grasses, you've got it:

But watch out for the giant mushrooms!

twopenny

Oh I love that and I want one desperately!

The garden looks easy to manage - or is that an illusion Dusty?

I'm busy planning how to recut the turf in mine to make it a little more interesting and ditto the gazebo that I couldn't do last year because it was too hot and dry/to wet and muddy.

Yoohoo Blue. Funnily enough I just posted a quote for someone else

“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.” ― Douglas Adams

And the one that made me chuckle "I garden in the nude. Its a lot cheaper than a scarecrow" Debra Anchors

Very MSE    

Paspatur

YBE thank you for the Shawshank on Iplayer heads up. I have just spent 2 hours crying my eyes out to one of my 2 favourite movies. which probably did me more good than the happy clappy messages through a year of cancer (not mine the OH) On topic garden has been a bit neglected through chemo etc but hopefully can be rescued next year