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Awful weather - typical Brits talk

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  • wort
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    Filled the bin , did 2 hours ,not sure anyone but me would notice the difference 😏 need to ask someone with a saw to go round the back of my fence and cut down the ivy!!! I have cut back where it has come through the fence , but it now stands a a foot above the fence despite chopping and pushing it away , its practically a tree🫣

    today is cold and grey , I’ve been doing some financial stuff and my head is mashed. So after my cuppa I’m having a walk for a half an hour or so. 


    Focus on contribution instead of the impressiveness of consumption to see the true beauty in people.
  • They say it's 8' here but it bladdy ain't, it's so cold out there! The wind just whips the heat right off ya. Varying shades of dullness and greyness here too :( 

    Good job I looked in here before tackling my fuchsia. Thanks Dusty, I'll TEAR the twigs off. Doing that after my brew. I knew about the heel thing though, do I get points for that? It was the heel I spotted when I first walked past it. 

     And thanks for the Shirley comment Farway, it made me spit gingerbread man biscuit bits all over meself :lol: I'm having another to compensate. 

    Never knew I am a galanthophile. Also daffophile and daisyophile. I couldn't tell you which bulbs I have coming up, they're very possibly daffs, but I didn't label mine either thinking my fully dependable and sponge-like brain would remember wot-went-where. It's evidently kicked those facts out to make room for something devastatingly important, which is very efficient of it and not at all annoying :|

    Good luck with that ivy wort, if only you knew a chainsaw wielding devil-may-care sort...
    I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.
  • So far not a single one of the bulbs I planted last year have come up (a couple of types of snowdrops, bluebells and snakes heads) but I thought at the time they looked a bit old and dry so combined with the wet sludge that has been my garden this winter maybe not a surprise... 
    I'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.
  • Also - who was looking for forsythia? They’ve got some in tescos. 


    I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.
  • wort
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    I do like Ivy, and have some in the garden , but this is proper gangster! Throwing itself about and creeping along and rooting plus it’s at the back of other plants and hard to get at.
    I have stones on the spider plant now I’m trying to remember wether that had gnats or not 🤔 not £16 quid ones though.

    when I was in the garden one of the plans was to dig up some plants that are straggling and bunch them together. I stood looking at the green growth and dead bits and trying to remember what was what . YBE I reckon my brain is doing what yours does, and has much more useful stuff to remember, like songs that it then plays 2 lines of over and over when you try to sleep.

    Dusty my cat 🐱 thinks he’s a dog, follows me round demands attention. And needs to sit on top of me before I’ve half a chance to sit down.
    Focus on contribution instead of the impressiveness of consumption to see the true beauty in people.
  • pink_poppy
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    We don't get anything like that in our local Tesco :(  I got a pyracantha from Morrison's years ago for a pound or two, similar size and packaging to the (Bruce) Forsythia and that was great - grew to 5-6 feet tall. Those were the days...

    I love that pic of the ivy, Farway., although I'm not a fan either. We are completely surrounded by ivy - it's growing everywhere in the garden and up the house - reminds me of Sleeping Beauty (??) in the castle, covered in thorns and her prince has to fight his way in - that'll be us soon.

    It's looking a bit dreich out there this morning - more rain forecast - I really need to buy myself some wellies...
    'A watched potato will never chit'...
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