Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

A belated Happy 3/4 of a century Birthday, Dusty!!  

Aye, it was me who stopped watching PB, YBE. I just got bored with it.

It got windy here at 5am this morning (outside) - woke me up again. It's looking like sunshine and showers for the rest of the day.

I'm really itching to get out into the garden, but work beckons...

Farway

Blue sky again, and quite mild, and there was a nice morning moon through the trees this morning but never bothered with a photo 'cos I did one not long ago.

YoungBlueEyes said:

I like your birdbath Farway with the wee birds on it. Did it survive it's travels? Sounds like you're having more luck with your morries clematis than I am, mine is not producing shoots or being happy in general. It's brown and translucent and mushy looking... If it's still out there after all the wind last night it'll be the only point in it's favour.

The bird bath survived and is now back in one piece, upright mand doing its duty.

Label found for the Morries clematis, thought I should know now it is looking like it'll live. 

It's Daniel Deronda. 

Having just read the description of it from the link, it seems I am in for a treat, the flowers may vary as will the leaves. Looking forward to it flowering now, clickety click camera time.

Even better it's £14.99 from RHS, £2.39 Morries, of course the RHS ones may be larger to start with

Belated Happy Birthday Dusty, I got a free TV licence when I sailed by, but they've even taken that away for you young 'uns

Lovely pic 2P, looks a good spot to sit & watch

No gardening today, but may mooch among Mr F & Brown's catalogue. It's free P & P this weekend, with Busy Lizzies and Coleus from seed both whispering my name.

The dahlia seeds I saved seem a bit seedless , just thin papery husks but time will tell

pink_poppy

Hmm, just looked at the forecast before heading off to work and it's changed to 40+ mph winds from 2pm until midnight - batten down those wheelie bins  

I was surprised to see snow on the tops this morning, considering we've had it fairly mild for the last few days (with plenty of rain). There was a lovely bright full moon when I finished work yesterday - I don't think there's much chance of seeing it tonight though...

All of this talk about plants is making me really want to visit a garden centre - too soon, too soon!!   

YoungBlueEyes

I got a moon pic this morning before it disappeared over the rooftops, but there’s something squiggly about it.  It doesn’t look properly round to me… The chimney looks like it’s about to slump down for a sleep, unless it’s my camera’s eyes, it looks alright in real life 🤔

I can see me giving up on PB too pp. I’ll give it to the end of this series and decide. Did you start it Farway? 

Always room for Busy Lizzies imo. Posh friend can’t get enough of them, she wishes they’d be out all year round  

Have had another check on morries clematis to see if it’s still there and it’s not. Because it’s actually a fuschia *ahem* 😳 I’m not fit to be let out ha haa! 

They say it’s warming up (wrong), and the wind is dying down (also wrong) and we’ve showers for the afternoon (doubt it, there’s not a cloud up there!) When I’m out I’m busy hunting round the charity shops for ‘the old ways of weather forecasting before technology stuck its drunken useless nose in’ or similar. None to be had, so far. 

Farway

YoungBlueEyes said:

I got a moon pic this morning before it disappeared over the rooftops, but there’s something squiggly about it.  It doesn’t look properly round to me… The chimney looks like it’s about to slump down for a sleep, unless it’s my camera’s eyes, it looks alright in real life 🤔

I can see me giving up on PB too pp. I’ll give it to the end of this series and decide. Did you start it Farway? 

Always room for Busy Lizzies imo. Posh friend can’t get enough of them, she wishes they’d be out all year round  

Have had another check on morries clematis to see if it’s still there and it’s not. Because it’s actually a fuschia *ahem* 😳 I’m not fit to be let out ha haa! 

They say it’s warming up (wrong), and the wind is dying down (also wrong) and we’ve showers for the afternoon (doubt it, there’s not a cloud up there!) When I’m out I’m busy hunting round the charity shops for ‘the old ways of weather forecasting before technology stuck its drunken useless nose in’ or similar. None to be had, so far. 

Maybe you jigged slightly with the moon pic, just as the shutter was closing?

Not yet started PB, found some series on Freeveee, ex CIA lady super sleuth, every one is Y'all. But I may not stick around because the plot holes are a bit large at times even for my watch any old rubbish level.

I may try Marvellous Mrs Maizel, supposed to be easy watching, but maybe they mean daft. 

I avoid ones described as Zany, Kooky or Hilarious

Could the fuchsia have survived, but be dormant, do you think?

Old ways to forecast weather, I remember my nan had a plastic lamppost with a drunk hanging on it, the light part was either pink or blue depending on if rain due or not

Hours of fun for us pre TV age kids, watching for bits of paper to change colour.

While waiting, we could watch the flies reeling as they alighted on the DDT impregnated fly paper artistically mimicking a bowl of flowers

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Label found for the Morries clematis, thought I should know now it is looking like it'll live. 

It's Daniel Deronda. 

Belated Happy Birthday Dusty, I got a free TV licence when I sailed by, but they've even taken that away for you young 'uns

The dahlia seeds I saved seem a bit seedless , just thin papery husks but time will tell

I've never heard of Daniel Deronda, though he sounds like he could be an American crooner; perhaps one who also plays piano. I can just see the album cover... "Wilting Away Gently With Daniel Deronda"

It's a shame about the free TV licence going, but I don't watch much broadcast TV. We conspiracy theorists are on Rumble and Odysee most of the time, anyway.  

That can be a problem with saving dahlia heads. Do it too soon and the seeds are few or small; do it too late, and they've turned to mush.

I must go to the archive and look out some snowdrop photos.

Dustyevsky

I went to the archive, but as usual, my memory was a little optimistic about the quality of what I'd find!

I've no idea what these might be called, but they may be a bit special. I doubt whether they're quite as special as the ones we saw in a galanthophile festival last year at £30 a bulb! That was another level.....

I should have taken my camera out this afternoon, as we had a lovely sunset, even without the help of numerous transatlantic jets. For some reason, we were having loads of those earlier in the week, but today....none!  Happily, none or few is 'normal.' It's a clear sky out there now, calm, and chilly with it, but supposedly no frost.

LessImpecunious

YoungBlueEyes said:

I got a moon pic this morning before it disappeared over the rooftops, but there’s something squiggly about it.  It doesn’t look properly round to me…

No photo, but the moon here yesterday looked definitely squashed at one side too; mysterious as it was supposed to be Full...

I too have a (very unexpected) snowdrop (again no photo) in one spot - no sign of others flowering nearby (there are usually some big clumps along the road).

Loved your olde plastic weather forecasting method Farway; funniest thing yet! Can't work out whether the fact that it was your Nan's makes me feel old or young...

twopenny

Lovely photos  curious chimney pot when everything else is perfectly straight.

Did a little search on the weather thing and found this take on the cornish stone and it made me chuckle
A weather forecasting gnome!
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1218114135/funny-weather-forecasting-gnome-humorous?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=weather+predicting&ref=sr_gallery-1-8&sts=1&organic_search_click=1

YoungBlueEyes

Aren't those gnomes funny That's why I'm not to be trusted in garden centres, anything that could be described as a load of old toot makes my heart happy and want 10 of them. Metal wiggly frogs, owls with solar eyes, multi-coloured windmill things, all that. I'd have those gnomes in every colour  

I'm glad it's not just me that thinks the moon wasn't fully round, it definitely looked squigged didn't it Less. It's out there now with a tiny wee sliver missing off one side now that it's waxing/waning..? I can never remember..  but it still looks round. I must have jer-jer-jer jiggled it as Farway says. I was hanging out the back bedroom window at the time like.

Fuschia may be dormant, I'll take a pic today when it's light. It doesn't look dead-but-sleeping like a lot of the plants out there, it's a queer translucent brown and the branches are mushy and over bendy. We have had a lot of rain the last few weeks and I had some water stood, but not on that side. If it truly is gonna die at least it was only a cheapo morries jobber. My clematis is the one with the peg on it, it looks healthily sleeping-dead and is firmly bendy, itms. 

Lovely snowdrops Dusty Imagine paying £30 a bulb though  

Talking about fly papers - I'm caught in a bit of quandry here. My ficuses have compost gnats so I hung fly papers to catch 'em and they work a treat but there's still the last few running round the top of the soil. Now the plants are looking really thirsty cos I haven't watered them for a few months, but how do I water them without reinvigorating the gnats... I don't want to water them and put them outside cos they'd not like the cold and wind, so how long do I wait to get the balance between gnats all dead and plants revivable? Hmmm. A DDT soaked bowl of paper flowers would do me rightly  

Anyway. Quite a nice dawn out there, a few wispy peachy coloured clouds. Pretty enough but not pic-worthy. And no it didn't rain yesterday.