Awful weather - typical Brits talk

LessImpecunious

YoungBlueEyes said:

I don't know what my sing-every-song-bird is pp cos I haven't seen it. I was picturing something blackie/starling sized, that's how big it sounded. Gawd it gonna be a starling isn't it I'll keep my eye out for a wren though... :fingerscrossed:

Sounds like it might be a Song Thrush (no idea why they're called that - we call ours Crazy Thrush because of the random throwing-together of bits of "tune" - if you can call it that... not what I'd call a a song...) But the clicking and tutting you mention sounds Starling-like...

Farway

Just dull, misty and dry, I was hoping for a spot of sun because I have to get a hole dug for the subsidised TBA apple tree I'm collecting Saturday

Dustyevsky said:

Tomorrow, another yellow rain morning...... It's not a great time for those of us with septic tanks!

Me too, which is why I wanted to get the apple hole dug today, but on the plus side my newly planted Purple Haze at DDs will get a good watering in. I realised on the way home that I had not watered it in, Doh! Luckily ground was wet & weather not baking so no harm done as yet.

The blackberry & raspberry I bought yesterday from Morries seem fine now I've had a closer look. Plenty of buds to grow & roots poking out the base of the pots.

Noticed inflation already, these were £2.50, a few weeks back were £2.39

I'll pot on the blackberry to grow a bit because DD has yet to decide on location, she is having a “cabin” WFH office thingy put up so may go on the side of that.

My raspberry is going at the bottom of the garden, so this year, cue dream sequence, while picking my Lakemont grapes I can nibble on Autumn Bliss raspberries

Come on sun, I want to get a pic of the hyacinths which are now open

pink_poppy

I love the song of the thrush, it's so random and funny - always makes me laugh when I hear it   not sure if they click though. I didn't know starlings clicked either, LI, but now you mention it I think I know what you mean. Fingers crossed, YBE.

I'll give the bags a try, twopenny. I'm thinking potatoes as well as leeks, then I just have to buy the carrots to make soup.

It's pouring with rain here, just for a change...

YoungBlueEyes

A thrush Less, I don’t know why I didn’t think of that… it could be 🤞🏻 I’ll keep my eye out. 

I hope all your/DD’s fruit come good Farway. Are you gonna supply us all with jam in return for prayers and good wishes?  

The weather’s better than the forecast here, and the currentcast. Cloudy and cool and dull ish but windy, they say. Well it bladdy ain’t, I went into the village this morning in just a blouse! No wind, calm, sunny, at least 15’. I’ll get out my big fan and see if I can’t blow it around to yous all  

Oh and if you wake up tomorrow to 4 blokes pas, you’re to take a pic and put it on here… And then give me a go with them cos I want my connie roof cleaned ha haa! 

ArbitraryRandom

Today started lovely - warm and bright with blue skies.

Typically, after my wash finished at 1, it started to grey over and now it's raining - like it knew I was stopping work for the day about now  

The forecast looks the same for tomorrow, so hopefully I can get things out for a bit of a blow for at least a couple of hours. 

-taff

Well,  the grass is cut, the compost bn emptied, mixed with old tomato compost left in pots to rot in the gh over winter [ YBL, might as well use it innit...] a couple of bags of leaves I acquired on my travels, and carefully placed slung about the front garden. The olive has been dug up and plonked in a pot, the teasel, eryngium, what I think is campanula [ who knows?] , the hypericum and some other bits and bobs have been plonked about the place too, along with splitting the geum, rescuing the other one which appeared to have narsties in the pot, potting up the surviving rosemary cuttings [ OH MY GOD finally did it!] , put out the tiny choysia andsorted out the compost bins. Tomorrow I'm having lunch with a friend and will do nowt...maybe...but the green bin is due Thursday and I have a large bay bush/tree to cut down or savagely prune since it looks like it was flourishing os much because it was sheltered. It's horribly brown and rustly now so i'm hopng I can save it.

Dusty, nice sign, I might make one. I do have one that says Place des Fetards but I wanted to get a pen to change the f to an r...

Dustyevsky

Mrs Dusty and I almost finished the 'rejuvenation pruning' of the elm hedge. Everything weather-wise was on our side, but at around 14.00 our farmer friend and his mate turned up to remove the sheep. My heart sank, because I knew what would follow, and sure enough there was the usual palaver of trying to catch spooked sheep that have run around the field, pursued by a guy on a quad swearing at them!

One year, we were given the hurdles and a supply of food in advance. Mrs Dusty and I made a nice big pen and simply led the sheep into it with handfuls of sheep nuts. No drama. We've never been able to repeat that. Sheep aren't stupid; they recognise individuals and react accordingly. I almost penned them today, before things became fraught, but without a supply of nuts they soon twigged my bag was empty! Well, it only took an hour doing it the other way. Did someone say 'Dog?' Believe me, that was the worst year of all!!!

No sheep means early hay; maybe by mid June.

twopenny

Well in contrast to all this hard work you're all doing I (the machine) did the washing and I went for a drive to Otter for my silver thyme and, after a cheese scone and coffee I emerged with a small Apricot tree from the sale dept.
I've been warned against them, don't have the room but figured it's my dream and for £20 I'd give it a shot just to say I've had one  . 
Two people seeing it in my trolly said 'you're brave' - well yeah. Gotta have a dream.
Any tips? They had some nice pots at half price 

Also learned - the new peat free compost, mix water retention gel. Apparently it's the way to go and the 'chrystals' are now cheap as chips. We'll see.

Beautiful day of spring type sunshine till I got home. Now blowing a chilly wind and apparently rain for the foreseeable.....

YoungBlueEyes

Good luck with your wash Arb. That's a bu99er that the rain waited for you to finish work. They really don't care do they :rolleyes:

Gawd you've been busy taff. Proper gardening Is the bay salvagable?

I'd have paid good money to see the sheep v quad show Dusty!  Sheep are erseholes, they're wilfully obstreperous and have no shame about it either  

All going wrong here at Shawshank Patch. I got a (frankly unnecessarily harsh) debt collection letter yesterday morning because guess who forgot to buy car tax when I bought insurance when the car was MOT'd. Stoopid brain. So I tried to buy it online, but I don't have a code because they didn't send me a reminder letter, just jumped straight to the debt collectors. Nice. There's a ref no on the V5C that you can use online, but guess who only has the bottom bit about regging as a new keeper? So I nipped to the post office (grrr), lovely woman gave me a form to get a new V5C. Filled it out, went back, didn't work. You can't get a new slip unless you're up to date with tax/mot/insurance etc. *Sigh* So she gave me a phone no and an error code and told me to ring dvla. So today I'll be on the phone all bladdy day, no doubt.  And cleaning my teeth last night I've broken the inside off a molar, so it's all rough and jaggy and annoying, but thankfully painfree. And I've woken up full of lurgy this morning, god knows where that's come from.

Also - it’s raining. Ventusky 1, drunkards 0. 

pink_poppy

Aw, sorry you've got the lurgy, YBE. The car tax issue sounds like a right pain too. If the jaggy tooth is making your mouth sore try squishing some bread around it until you can get it fixed.

Nothing much happening here - I'm doing extra hours at work this week so no time to do anything else  

Weather is... you guessed it... wet.