Awful weather - typical Brits talk

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🖐 morning BC
Morning all 🖐 Hope everyone's all fit and well.

Lovely pictures everyone, this part of Somerset got a slight dusting of snow overnight on Saturday but it melted within an hour or so and during Sunday the temps went sufficiently high that i started a bit of tidying up and pruning again - i love these first forays into the garden again 😊🌱🌺

So, being a Tuesday i'm off up the M5 a bit later, after sorting things with my car, that got damaged whilst parked up a few days ago, the hassle of insurance claiming is too much and i get my angry head develop through sheer frustration at these companies 😣🙄

Hey ho, just have to get on with it !
Enjoy your week folks 😁

Davesnave

Catsacor said:

So, being a Tuesday i'm off up the M5 a bit later, after sorting things with my car, that got damaged whilst parked up a few days ago, the hassle of insurance claiming is too much and i get my angry head develop through sheer frustration at these companies 😣🙄

About this time last year, Dearly Beloved demolished part of a fence with her reversing. Remembering that I'd done much the same years ago and offered to replace it myself rather than take an insurance hit, she bargained with the elderly couple and said I'd be along soon to fix it!

It was a pretty rickety old thing, but the owners, in their 90s, insisted it was built only a year or two before. Google Street view showed it was far from new in 2011!

Anyway I took the relevant stuff along and sorted it, but the dent in the car is still there....

Farway

Dull & damp after a frosty start. Today's gardening news is a Polama fruits catalogue has arrived, not sent for, must be on their list somehow

No doubt I'll look and dream but I really would struggle to squeeze another fruit tree in

Davesnave said:

Catsacor said:

So, being a Tuesday i'm off up the M5 a bit later, after sorting things with my car, that got damaged whilst parked up a few days ago, the hassle of insurance claiming is too much and i get my angry head develop through sheer frustration at these companies 😣🙄

About this time last year, Dearly Beloved demolished part of a fence with her reversing. Remembering that I'd done much the same years ago and offered to replace it myself rather than take an insurance hit, she bargained with the elderly couple and said I'd be along soon to fix it!

It was a pretty rickety old thing, but the owners, in their 90s, insisted it was built only a year or two before. Google Street view showed it was far from new in 2011!

Anyway I took the relevant stuff along and sorted it, but the dent in the car is still there....

How about the Rolex watch that was part of the fence?

in_my_wellies

goldfinches said:

All change here to lovely sunny day. I took this photo of the Persian Ironwood buds above the snowdrops, crocuses and a few very early pale blue miniature irises. Saw thrushes, blackbirds and a pair of robins too.

Lovely picture. I also thought it was a lake in the background and wondered why the bench was facing the wrong way.

Bright, clear and cloudy here so the snow is still here. No vehicles have past so the snow is still pristine. I can see several animal tracks, some in odd places. I wish I could switch ebay off. I've sold three items but can't post them, hoping for understanding buyers. One has been listed for nearly three years and the others for a year - **** law! (I don't have a 'shop' so can't) 

Dave, my dent when I reversed into a bollard at the dentist was similar, £160 to fix at the local garage. He hammered it out, fantastic job

Black_Cat2

Hiya C, glad you're popping in 😸.  M5 is popular today lol

I still see a lake when I scroll on that pic, even though I know it isn't! 😹

Well it's raining here now and set to be milder.  No gardening for me, instead ushered the kids off to their bedrooms and made some scones... *yum*.  Now sat here feeling well bloated watching the depressing news of over 100K Covid casualties 😞.  We need some good news soon. 

Farway

Dull, damp & misty this morning, hardly a day to inspire much outside activity, with heavy rain promised tonight

Everyone seems to be talking about dentist, now I've had my CV jab I've booked to have my covid cancelled check up next month, giving the jab time to work

Seems a palaver now, had to fill in online form where before it was just sit in waiting room & tick boxes now it's everything required except inside leg measurement

goldfinches

Am slightly mystified by the universal insistence on seeing a lake but I have recently received a reminder from the optician so maybe that's why I can't see it the way everyone else does.
On the other hand it may just be the net effect of standing shivering on frozen ground while snapping away with a precariously held phone in rapidly stiffening hands.
When I next get over to visit that garden I'll try for a more intelligible view of that bed which is one of my favourites at this time of year.

Black_Cat2

It's a gorgeous view g, not a criticism of your pic at all 🤗 

Would love to see another pic of the snowdrops they're looking great.  Crocuses are something I am tempted to plant in my own bit of heaven.  I was told once that birds eat them?  Not sure if that's true or whether the guy was pulling my leg lol

Davesnave

goldfinches said:

Am slightly mystified by the universal insistence on seeing a lake but I have recently received a reminder from the optician so maybe that's why I can't see it the way everyone else does.

I couldn't see it either, but I kept quiet, just like people do when they find the majority see things differently from them. It's the Emperor's New Clothes Effect and especially prevalent just now.....

If you want some good news BC, I can report that yesterday our blackbirds started singing their spring songs for the first time. Might be rather premature, but for those of us in the South West at least there should be a brief interlude of dry weather today, till around tea time.

Then it's back to same old....

Davesnave

Farway said:

Everyone seems to be talking about dentist,

I'm not saying anything more till I've seen him, but I'm having dentist dreams.......