Awful weather - typical Brits talk

wort

I love the sunset pic Dusty, not had any since the back end of summer . 

YBE. Apricity is a fabulous word and will try to fit in today somewhere, though a chance of sun is unlikely at the moment. Sounds pretty windy out there. 2 p I could fall down a rabbit hole of words myself but the chances of remembering them is slim. 

Maybe I should look at the word of the day and try and use it . If I remember 😂😂

I wonder if my garden tendencies come from my love of seaweed on holidays, I used to play collect and play with it, my parents even let me bring some home in a bucket of water, which ended up stinking in the garden. No doubt my grandad used it as feed in the end.

I planted the aubretia seed and put in the conservatory. Didn’t have enough of the containers to do the other seeds yet.
Is it just me singing purple haze to the tune of purple rain?

YoungBlueEyes

Apricity is a fab word wort, and I'm with you on the rabbit hole thing that's very interesting for a few minutes but they never stick, sadly. I've kept 2p's link open in it's own tab cos I'm determined to use some of them, once a bit more winter gets here. And no I wasn't singing Purple Rain but I am now thank you very much! Mind the church bells will be starting soon so that'll clear it out again  

Arb is it just hostas that the 1/3 pruning applies to? I've a something out there that may very well be a hosta (label gone) and it could do with a bit of reviving...

2021 loo roll Dusty?! Gawd! Either yous don't use much or you've a hooj barnfull ha haa!  Aye the french won't stick it will they, quite right too. Remember the carryon over the pensions as well. Good luck to them I say. I wish we were more like it here instead of rolling over like labradors. Anyway. 

Good luck with all that gb, sounds very frustrating. Tell the builders they've got 7 days to collect their scaffolding or it's going on fleabay  

Ooh a blackie in the blossom 2p Is it your own or a new one? That was a good whack of work you got done, enjoy your day in bed ha haa!

Cloudy and grey and mild here. The drunkards reckon it'll rain and/or drizzle all day (doesn't smell like it to me) and the sobers say 35% chance of a bit of rain around lunchtime. Possibly. Windy this aft they all agree.

Oh and I finished PB last night. There's 36 hours of my life I'll never get back. Actually the first series was good, I just wish I'd stopped there (hint hint Farway).

Dustyevsky

wort said:

Is it just me singing purple haze to the tune of purple rain?

Possibly, but if you're into that, I have just the thing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQLi64lPBbo

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX9NhBeB_Lo

With 'Purple Haze,'  I remember friends used to argue whether it was, "S'cuse me while I kiss the sky" or "S'cuse me while I kiss this guy."  Personally, I thought the answer was rather obvious!

OT: Yes, it's blooming windy out there, but the inebriates are still denying any serious rain, just like they did yesterday when it was the fine stuff, wafting-about. I suppose we were in the cloud rather than under it yesterday, so maybe that doesn't count as rain. Still very mild, which means the grass is growing again, giving the sheep more to eat and me more mowing than I want right now. More concreting today. If we're getting an 'Arctic Snow Blast' or whatever term the MSM choose, it would be nice to have doors on the east end of the polytunnel too.

Do your roofers own the scaffolding greenbee? Scaffolding companies are notorious for storing their stuff on people's houses, rather than in their own yard.

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

2021 loo roll Dusty?! Gawd! Either yous don't use much or you've a hooj barnfull ha haa!  Aye the french won't stick it will they, quite right too. Remember the carryon over the pensions as well. Good luck to them I say. I wish we were more like it here instead of rolling over like labradors. Anyway.

That was a joke, though we did buy in bulk when it was a lot cheaper, and the Ritz, or anything with fat/oil in it that will eventually go rancid, is worth watching for the best before date. About 6 months over's OK.

The fence posts I bought have kept best of all. Horrendous price increase there; though if I'd a time machine, I'd go back to the days when the preservatives used actually worked and buy them then. We have a still-solid fence down by the stream (Nelly Dean!) and it's been there since 1989. I have the original deed in which it's specified to be 2m high and deer proof Now, we have eco-friendly ones that last not 30 years, but about 10-12. By my reckoning, that's nearly 3 posts to one of the old type, so 3x the amount of trees needed to do the same job. Can't see how that's eco, bearing in mind transport too, but the 'experts' know best! Hmmmm.

ArbitraryRandom

Dustyevsky said:

Do your roofers own the scaffolding greenbee? Scaffolding companies are notorious for storing their stuff on people's houses, rather than in their own yard.

I've had a painter's ladder and toolbox for two years now (it was a young guy that did the work and was paid, but was going to come back to do some trim)... no idea how long I have to store them before I can get rid. No contact details really as it was a referral from my plumber. 

YoungBlueEyes said:

Arb is it just hostas that the 1/3 pruning applies to? I've a something out there that may very well be a hosta (label gone) and it could do with a bit of reviving...

You don't want to be relying on my theoretical knowledge for things like that! But in general it's the rule that's always recommended for foraging etc - if it's an established plant and you leave 2/3rds then it should recover, and if the reason you're taking a third is because it's overcrowded then I assume it will give it a bit of space at least for the season when you decided about splitting it etc. 

Farway

Dull again, slight breeze & damp in it, not gardening weather TBH

YoungBlueEyes said:

Oh and I finished PB last night. There's 36 hours of my life I'll never get back. Actually the first series was good, I just wish I'd stopped there (hint hint Farway).

Thanks, hint taken, at my age I'm not sure if I can spare 36 hours, wasted one yesterday on The English which descended into cliché ridden codswallop

Dustyevsky said:

The fence posts I bought have kept best of all. Horrendous price increase there; though if I'd a time machine, I'd go back to the days when the preservatives used actually worked and buy them then. We have a still-solid fence down by the stream (Nelly Dean!) and it's been there since 1989. I have the original deed in which it's specified to be 2m high and deer proof Now, we have eco-friendly ones that last not 30 years, but about 10-12. By my reckoning, that's nearly 3 posts to one of the old type, so 3x the amount of trees needed to do the same job. Can't see how that's eco, bearing in mind transport too, but the 'experts' know best! Hmmmm.

While you're back in time, will you get me a tin of Jeyes fluid, please? And some Dithane for blight?

Actually, Jeyes is still around for retail, and it'll be fine as long as I don't spill any mixture into my vine weevil infested pots while disinfecting my steps. I'd hate the little blighters darlings to come to any harm or upset the Gods Commissioners in Brussels.

In other news, some figs have been notched, I was going to do more today, but the mizzle has deterred me. I also nicked a few buds just to try that as well.

Next on my list is Girdling, I reckon that would do well on my hard red pear, Slips into Rambling Syd Rumpo voice and sings I'm going to girdle my hard red pear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWTs9SP3AIc

twopenny

I'm laughing at that till I weep and I don't know why. It makes no sense but sounds wicked. So clever.
Tommy cooper used to do that to me too.
We are very short of laughs these days with self obsessed comedians that just shout.
Thanks for that 

ArbitraryRandom

twopenny said:

I'm laughing at that till I weep and I don't know why. It makes no sense but sounds wicked. So clever.
Tommy cooper used to do that to me too.
We are very short of laughs these days with self obsessed comedians that just shout.
Thanks for that 

I hesitate to recommend comedians, as it's a very subjective thing, but Simon Evans can reliably make me laugh. 

pink_poppy

Kevin Bridges and Ross Noble here. Both have made my stomach ache from laughing so much   

It's been raining all day here and it's to get rainier, if that's even possible. Add in some gusty 40+ mph winds overnight and into the morning - just lovely...

Btw, I always wake up with a song in my head - this morning was Walk by Foo Fighters.

Dustyevsky

Well, today turned out to be not-so-bad. The mizzle fizzled-out, so I took my car for a local run, as I'd not driven it since before Christmas! 

A few miles down river from our partner-farmer's place, I pulled-up in a lane, looked across the field and saw what looked like four seagulls. Nothing unusual there, except we don't usually see gulls unless the weather's terrible. I zoomed my camera in, took a quick snap, blew that up and suspicions were confirmed. These 'seagulls' had long legs!

At that moment the murk lifted a bit, and for a few minutes there was blue sky visible, but regrettably no sunshine to aid long distance photography. I still snapped away, because I'd never seen two egrets together before, let alone four. Suddenly, the birds began taking off. A heron had flown across to join the group, and this seemed to signal a mass flight towards the river. There had been eight or nine egrets; some further away and unseen in depressions in the flood plain. This was the only photo I got of them all. The next moment they all vanished, having descended to the river.

That's a lovely old oak tree too. There are many of this age in the valley and not enough younger ones, but we're working on it!