Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Like Dusty, woke to frost, with sunshine, now degenerated to a bright cloudy murk.

Hoping it clears a bit because I would like to finish tying my new apple up, and plant the new Autumn Bliss raspberry.

Sounds a very mixed day there, Dusty, there's something to be said for bland & boring at times.

Dustyevsky said:

 the stream yesterday revealed that we do have a few snowdrops there, but they're literally in ones and twos, not the clumps I planted. It's odd. Maybe one winter we'll have the hundreds the neighbour has, just downstream of us. I believe they date back to the 1980s.

Maybe your ones washed downstream? Or squirrels? Or just plain old plant buggerance?

twopenny said:

Some interesting plants there. Morries wheeling in large new shrubs too so eyes open folks. Get em while they're fresh!

Congrats Farway  did you find homes for all last years (year befores) fig cuttings?

Oooh, I'll try & get up to Morries this week, it was sparse last time I looked.

Fig cuttings, still have two left, one of which has rooted through the bottom of the pot, so that's going to be fun

YoungBlueEyes

Ha haa that’s what I was gonna say - are you sure your snowdrops aren’t washing downstream Dusty  

I bobbed into morries looking for fresh plants but all my one has are those wee pine tree + primrose planter things. I’m not paying all that for one them. 

Unforecastedly raining here, all over my washing. Thank you very much  

ArbitraryRandom

YoungBlueEyes said:

Unforecastedly raining here, all over my washing. Thank you very much  

I've washed the same blanket three times now - once I forgot it was in the machine(!), the second time I tried to dry it inside and it just ended up smelling musty... I'm hoping this afternoon it'll stay dry enough for it to get the worst of the water out of it then I can finish it inside okay. 

I always remember I dislike February but I always forget why  

YoungBlueEyes

I usually wake up to a load of posts on here, have you all died or something  

Arb at least Feb is only short and it's over tomorrow, and Spring will have sprunged :clapping: 

I was talking to my friend yesterday about your film 2p and she really liked it too so I'm gonna go see it at the weekend.

I saw a new cat in the garden last night, it looked a lot like the Holey Roamin' Terror but with a smaller pointier face and bit bigger ears. It was watchful and cautious of me, I don't know where s/he came from. Also I think my astonishing singing bird is a starling  There was one on the fence yesterday aft, all silky and iridescent and ...glowering... I hope it wasn't a scout. I really don't want starlings, no matter if they are endangered. In my last garden there were that many they could strip a whole feeding station in about 15 minutes. They ended up getting used to me shouting and clapping at them too so they weren't remotely scared  

Cool out there this morning and a bit damp. Brighter this morning and then pouring down from 3 ish, possibly. No sunset last night but a lot of the stars were out by the time I went to bed so there's that  

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

I usually wake up to a load of posts on here, have you all died or something

I'm not dead; just resting.  It was a hard day, yesterday. I've another that's tough in a different way today, so there won't be any gardening.   Though somewhat subdued, I've just seen a wren singing its heart out in our hawthorn tree and that put a smile on my face.   

The garage is keeping my car the car till Thursday now. However, I must wend my way to civilisation and the purveyors of comestibles. It's never fun, shopping in a 3.5 tonne van, but at this time of year finding tandem parking spaces is easy enough. Then I must help someone with a difficult legal problem I know too little about.

Here's a picture of the drive and daft verge stones I mentioned yesterday. There's quite a bit of the elm hedge we've worked on shown, too. The un-done bit at the bottom is where we're removing a section, but 85% of it will remain.

I see someone's nicked the 10mph sign that no one obeyed! No, it wasn't me! More importantly, we've managed to finish before the daffs come out.

EDIT: Forgot to mention; it's grey and drizzling here, but reasonably warm. Later, it rains properly.

twopenny

I'm here. Just it didn't rain all day yesterday so i did some gardening.
Out like a light till a delivery man called 
It's dark and grey and raining about 7c but feels freezing so may get on the laptop later so wouldr rather stay asleep.

Are you sure your daffs haven't come out and been eaten?
Mine have, and the primulas!

Little bird out there taking any bugs off the fruit trees. They're getting ready for breeding.

YoungBlueEyes

Re your pic Dusty (I'm not an expert ) if they don't own the verge are they allowed to put bladdy big stones on it? Surely that'd be for safe overtaking etc and the stones would make the road 'unsafe'? Was it about impeding/obstructing the flow of traffic or something. I'm sure I've read about something similar on a board here... I'd be quietly reporting that.

What is it that eats daffs anyway? I've barely a whole one left.

pink_poppy

It looks like they want Dusty's verge to get all churned up, not their own precious verge...

Dustyevsky

The verges have different owners. The one on our side is communal, the other is privately owned. The road is private, so they can do what they will, but they must accept the possibility of litigation if damage or an accident results; delivery and trade vehicles use it daily. A speed hump placed further into the 'estate' was so severe it damaged someone's car. That was removed PDQ.

The daffs are a picture when they bloom.We own those. Mrs Dusty will be digging up all the ones in the section we're removing and planting them somewhere else. I'm just nodding wisely because there will be hundreds!

ArbitraryRandom

YoungBlueEyes said:

What is it that eats daffs anyway? I've barely a whole one left.

The usual culprits - Slugs and snails. Listening to the local gardener, it's the spanish slugs that are a problem.

They've apparently been bad since 2018 when there was a boom, but he says they're better in colder weather than our local slugs and eat a wider variety of plants.