Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Weather brightened up, enough to prowl around the garden

I think I've perfected prowling now and found a nice looking cat on my gate post, it seemed unfazed by me coming on the scene, at least it will keep the squirrels away for a moment.

YoungBlueEyes said:

Afternoon old geyser As Dusty’s tortured you with the cannas I’ll not show you what my alliums look like! How’s Day 3? Fingers crossed for your faceache gardener 🤞🏻

Day 3 is fine thank you, back to usual, standard issue aches & creaks.

Lovely wisteria gift over the fence

Alliums, on my prowl I noticed my neighbour's ones, they survived the winter and now look sturdy. 

I intend lowering the entire neighbourhood because I have a sprouted cooking onion and I will plant it and allow it to seed. Actually, apart from being, to quote & in Scottish minister voice, WHYTE , they look quite impressive.

When we get those detached houses in parkland, I'd like a sweeping drive in & out drive please, the semicircle ones. I've not yet decided on the tree it will circle around, has to be unusual & fruiting. 

Perhaps I will have to go on expedition to Everest foothills and find one, the butler can carry my rucksack.

Good news, I have Beetroot and Radish :)Just germinated, and a long time before I eat one, but I have a dream

YBE, & Dusty, I'll see your tomato & wisteria, and up you my Judas tree in today's sunshine

-taff

Arb, hope your travel was uneventful and on time..I feel the same way about appointments now, which is annoying, I start worrying days in advance and I have also missed a couple of crucial ones because I just fogot which made the worrying worse. I keep having to have stern words with myself. And write them down in three separate places in case.

Sorry you've got carp neighbours too, my sister is on board with that, she's got rubbish ones, one plays the drums and drops weights on the floor at all hours, the other smokes and deals weed and it seeps through her house under the floorboards along with buyers turning up at all hours. I keep telling her to move.

Lovely wisteria too

And love the garden with plenty of daisies and less lawn which is my ulitmate goal, no lawn at all.

Just been potting on and p ricking out celery, red ones, they're tiny, but they may grow and evicted two snails from the greenhouse that were sampling the delights of everything I was especially wanting to grow but which is now gone into their snail intestines. So i re-sowed tromboncini, black futsu, portimarron, sowed some cornflowers, more echinacea, and about to go do the posh marigolds.

ybe, don't worry about your toms, I've seen mostly the same everywhere except gc's and plant sales [ where people obviously make more of an effort than me] and mine are the same, started off well, stalled, grew a bit more, stalled again etc. Combination of the weather and the compost.

These were from my mothers plants, i put them in about six years ago and they're just starting to really bunch up now,

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

You and your toms Dusty, mine are a while off that stage Black tray was sown weeks ago, green tray is 6 (?) days old - 

Ah, it's about choices. You chose to have the lovely patio your toms are sitting on, and I chose a polytunnel. Perhaps in a year or so, I'll get the patio too. Someone will want to buy our barn!

pink_poppy said:

Your toms are looking good, Dusty. I'm sure you'll get good use out of your whirly. Can I be cheeky and ask if your granite chips are on the expensive side?? I'm still wondering what to use here.

The cheapest stone is local stuff, and that granite came from 'our' side of Dartmoor. It's just the chips sold by the local builders' merchant. We paid £80 a dumpy, but that was in about 2020 or '21, so it'll be substantially more now. Sorry!

We've been to town this afternoon and I didn't use the wipers at all. The lady in the BS was very nice and didn't even blink when I asked for £2k in cash. 

It's a brown envelope job,” I told her. 

Bang on form she replied “Oh dear, I only have white!”

Dustyevsky

LessImpecunious said:

Was the offer sent on the 1st?

Should have been, but in truth I've no idea. It's been on my desk a while. I thought it as the annual bill, so ignored it.

YoungBlueEyes

"Oh dear, I only have white" It's good when you get an awake one eh, few and far between though they may be!
If your SW water letter was serious I'd be having conniptions And depending how busy I was I might even ring/write to them and point out the unpalatable truth about wasting water. Or depending what form I was on I might send the strips back and parrot their letter back to them. 'I'm very concerned about your leaks, here's some strips, you are to use your own money to get them fixed pronto' etc. 

Ooh more tatties pp, you're gonna be inundated ha haa  

That Judas tree's a beauty Farway, aren't the colours gorgeous. I've got radishes and beets and stuff growing so how about swopsies? I'll find room for it... 

Reassuring to hear it's not just my toms taff. They mostly live in the conservatory, I've been putting them out to get some sun on their faces thinking that would chivvy them along a bit but they just don't care. They sit on top of the bins when they're out cos the plastic gets warm and heats their bums (you'd think they'd like that) but it hasn't made a bit of difference I don't think. Ah well *shrug* That's a bu99er about slugs getting to yours, will you have time now to plant more..? 

OT raining and mild and hardly a breath of wind. It's actually raining harder now than it did yesterday :rolleyes: 

Oh and I've found the garden with a stream house that I'd like, thank you please, who ever's got the cheque book -

https://www.propertypal.com/millbrook-130-vow-road-ballymoney/940744  

...and make the cheque out for a bit more than that cos I'll want to sort the epc. Much obliged

-taff

The Judas tree is beautiful! , I think that's the one cousin complained my uncle used to chop down before it had chance to flower.

And that covered area by the side of the house is making me green with jealousy. You take the house, I'll take that bit, as long as it's always sunny

Sun is shining...Also, last night I saw two foxes fighting over a fox kit's body, so now I know what happened to the one in my garden. I spent a bucolic minute or two [more] watching the fox kits play in the giant litter tray in the back garden last night at dusk, watched over by the mother and father, so there's probably going to be one less tonight. It also explains why fatty and the princess don't go jumping over the fences down there lately either.

Garden potter and appointments beckon today, just the usual.

twopenny

Oh nice Bluey!
But the insurance will be high for flooding. Seems you only need a tap now for them to try the floods thing.
I'll take your lovely cottage and raise you
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gblhchlac230003
Looked down on it from above and swum on the beach....which is all stone.

We've got the wind here. It's cloudy and not warm. Forcast says either torrential rain later or sunny all day.
Looks more like hot cold cloud maybe some rain to me. Typical May weather.

Been looking at everything growing like mad. My sage seems to have turned into a tryfid and needs it's second serious pruning of the year.
Over the gate rose needs tying back. 
I think the pond is leaking so that needs hoiking out and seeing to. 

Yesterday I photoed the garden because it looked just perfect - a sign that things will shortly go wrong 

Surveyed the badger run yesterday for space for a fig tree, not that morries have a sign of one this year.
Maybe some prunings of the overhanging one on my walk will be falling in my backpack as I go past

YoungBlueEyes

Aww one less kit Mind I don't think we're struggling for them are we? In general I mean. Nice you got to see them playing first tho taff.
If I end up with that cottage you can have the covered area no bother. I'll bring some wisteria with me, that'd look well. 

Bluddy 'ell 2p, that's some place I love the infinity-pool-that's-actually-just-the-sea view, you'd never tire of that. It already says "property no longer available" so hands up, who bought it? And when's the house warming 
Keep your eye on morries for a fig tree, I'm nearly sure that's where I got mine from....

I'm waiting to hear what kinda fancy tree Farway's having in his swooping driveway...

Oh and Lidl have calamondins pp

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

"Oh dear, I only have white" It's good when you get an awake one eh, few and far between though they may be!
If your SW water letter was serious I'd be having conniptions And depending how busy I was I might even ring/write to them and point out the unpalatable truth about wasting water. Or depending what form I was on I might send the strips back and parrot their letter back to them. 'I'm very concerned about your leaks, here's some strips, you are to use your own money to get them fixed pronto' etc. 

That Judas tree's a beauty Farway, aren't the colours gorgeous. I've got radishes and beets and stuff growing so how about swopsies? I'll find room for it...

I expect the cashier lady had heard the brown envelope joke a hundred times, but it was refreshing to see her count the cash, not a machine.

In today's news, SWW is having kittens, because residents round Brixham way have cryptosporidium in their water supply, so they're having to boil drinking water. And yes, I've had it from an engineer, there's a leak near us going back years, but they can't find it.

Maybe Farway doesn't remember, but Judas Trees are my bette noir (can I still say that?  ) because we had a lovely one, grown from seed, that perished in our first winter here.

Looked sideways at your bargain bungalow with stream and pretended it was £2.34million. It has all anyone really needs. I knew 2p's would be unreachable, 'cos it was with Savills and coastal. Here's my ridiculous property buy for today. I should point out that the plans are just for permission purposes, and no one with money would actually build it like that, but they're truly hideous!

https://www.stags.co.uk/properties/19119854/sales
Back later to go through rest of posts....Mrs Dusty is chasing me for some actual work!

Farway

Cooler today, sun sort of hiding behind clouds. I was thinking of going to H Bargains for more compost, but CBA in the end, postponed until it's warmer.

-taff said:

The Judas tree is beautiful! , I think that's the one cousin complained my uncle used to chop down before it had chance to flower.

I grew it from seed decades ago, but IME they take a good old cutting back and seem very tough, but branches can break off if in full leaf & summer storms come along. Certainly an eye-opener in full flower.

2P, I hope pond is just evaporation and not a leak, seems there's always something just in the wings waiting to niggle at our bits of paradise.

Even those houses I bet have a hidden problem, maybe the maid's room ceiling is stained or the butler's pantry door sticks ?

YoungBlueEyes said:
I'm waiting to hear what kinda fancy tree Farway's having in his swooping driveway...

I keep coming back to a Medlar, looks unusual and would love to drop "Bletting” into a conversation

I found my toms improved after getting drizzled on outside, possibly it was just the rain water or a good watering? Certainly bucked them up anyway.

I think the drizzle also gave the radish and beetroot seeds enough water to grow, and now they are nice and damp for the slugs.

Must try harder & get some toms planted up in the conservatory, having seen Dusty's flowers

Today's pic is a strawberry I found hiding, it's from a stray runner when I grew them in earnest.

But I gave up due to vine weevils & slugs. 

They pop up now & then despite complete neglect. I manage to eat about four.