Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Thanks all, I'm feeling a bit better today, still sleeping for Scotland though   I'm so glad I'm at home.
I've been watching Renovation Nation on catch-up - it's probably my favourite house programme, as period property renovation is something I would love to do. Maybe one day...

Sleeping's good.   We came home from a garden visit we couldn't fit in yesterday, and somehow I've lost an hour since. Mrs Dusty has been 'reading' with her eyes closed, too!

This huge garden was out in the country, so not walkable from the posh village, and it needed an hour or more to get around. As the weather improved, we decided to risk it, having paid our dues. Glad we did too; there were at least 6 'sitooteries,' and I think I snapped them all.

I haven't dared look into the polytunnel, taff. A day away, and....   who knows? What's eating your stuff? We saw a humungous slug crossing the road in bright sunshine his afternoon, so it obviously knew what's about to happen with the weather again tonight.

As I now have a bucket load of photos, here's another from yesterday - a particularly good rose in a real, cottagey sort of garden.

twopenny

Oh I like that rose!

I've been waiting for your photos Dusty, not that I have room for anything else growing or otherwise but you never know

Happy that everyone seems to be at least half way through the lurgies and injuries. It's the July gap so best to relax and deal with the next gardening lot when it comes  

No storyboards at the moment. I've joined the sleepy club. woke at 6 for no reason and had the shivers and felt rotten so made a couple of breakfasts and a hot water bottle and went for a small sleep. 9- 10 would be usual. Woke up after 2pm!! Feel much better though.

Good news is that I managed the full walk between villages and back along a sea track. The beach has gone green with lack of water + deluge from the sky. Really wierd. But it's a major step forward (pun intended)

The birds are on mass this morning but I'm fighting the pigeon that eats so much so spent the day trying to think of solutions. Browsing the shops.

I want to encourage the small birds to return so feeders filled late night and not by evening........

Wander round the patch and the toms have doubled in size with the heavy rain - should flower around September at this rate

The mixed planting, the deep red rose is growing among the pink along with clematis and winter clematis. Whether to divert if or not?

lots of dead heading and pruning to do. Free the next 3 days so will get to.

I have a wall Hydranga. It's in my Sitoorie along with the Wisteria

Ideas above my station I realised, as the ones I loved were in large expensive homes. I think I deleted those photos to stop me getting silly ideas

The wall hydranga is an interesting one. Doesn't last long but if you have somewhere to grow it to full power its a short but lovely impact. Mine came from Morries obvs  

pink_poppy

What a stunning rose, Dusty.

I decided to do a little light weeding yesterday afternoon and I think the fresh air did me some good. I did hear a neighbour when I was in the side garden at one point, so made a swift exit as I had no wish for them to see or talk to me. I'm feeling better, but I still look like the living dead...

It's looking a bit cloudy out there this morning, but the temperature doesn't feel too bad. No fire on for the last two nights!!

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

I decided to do a little light weeding yesterday afternoon and I think the fresh air did me some good. I'm feeling better, but I still look like the living dead...

It's good you're on the mend. Wanting to weed is a very good indicator of that! Happy days for 2p too, finding her walking mojo again.

Not much to say this morning. We're back to grey again, and I've felt cold since waking. Top temperature today is predicted as 14c, which we've experienced at night in February on numerous occasions!

In such dreary conditions, what's needed is a cheery sitooterie, so here's one to get the week off to a positive start.

YoungBlueEyes

I'd say there are definitely carroty tops in there Farway, and plenty of them too. Woohoo for your amazingly fast runners! Have you been calling them Usain as encouragement? I had the same notion for getting rid of the soil, but in my head it was more like wosname getting rid of his wall round the exercise yard in Shawshank There's just such a lot of it   I might keep it and do raised beds maybe, I don't know yet.  Didn't find any bodies, but it did turn up a tent peg, a big chipped marble, and some quite pretty (bottle?) glass with a couple of letters on it. No Roman Villa, or even wee bits of  

Hopefully your seedlings will romp away now gb. I overheard a fellah tell another fellah at the open gardens here a few weeks ago "just get them in the ground and they'll do their very best to grow for you". I don't know what he was talking about but maybe it doesn't matter...

Lovely sitooteries Dusty, and that view! The huge rose + little cottage is my fave, very charming. That'd just do me. I'd never have my windows shut if it's as fragrant as it looks Wouldn't fancy dead-heading it though... I'm a fan of roundy benches too. 

I wonder what's chomping it's way round your greenhouse? Slugs or mice maybe..? You can absolutely have a borrow of himself - I'll send him over at the weekend. Don't let him tell you he can eat anything because he's meant to be dieting, "spare tyre" was well named that's all I'm saying. He does have a propensity to strop/sulk too though, I just quietly leave the room and close the door behind me. He'll learn. Eventually. Hopefully :rolleyes: Either that or it's spaniels and labs for meeee! :clapping:  

Did you find the answer to feeding wee birds and not pigeons 2p? I'd be interested for sure. You've been a while battling off your lurgy, you need to stop kissing dirty boys  "A good laugh and a long sleep are the 2 best cures for nearly anything" (Old Irish saying.) I like the angle of your pics, and don't stop having ideas above your station - you've got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true? I wouldn't divert the rose but then I like the mixed-up everything everywhere look  

Glad you're feeling better pp   And woohoo to no fire needed!

OT we didn't get the promised storm yesterday, not even close. It did go cloudy about 1800, and drizzled and then lightly rained for about, oooh, a good half hour. Very disappointing as that forecast was from Tusky I wonder if @Working_Mum got it instead? We went round the village yesterday, also disappointing. It was basically a market with all the usual tat stalls selling cakes and gin.... I did get a couple of pics though Sunny here now, lovely and mild and Spring-like tbh, best day of the week. They say....

Farway

Rain has stopped for a breather, due back tonight. It's been cold as well, but with the next lot of rain, we are “promised” high humidity. Nice, get those fungus & blight spores growing

At least this rain will have helped to swell the apples & berries.

What a lovely rose Dusty, I don't suppose that came from Morries

twopenny said:

Oh I like that rose!

I've been waiting for your photos Dusty, not that I have room for anything else growing or otherwise but you never know

Happy that everyone seems to be at least half way through the lurgies and injuries. It's the July gap so best to relax and deal with the next gardening lot when it comes  

No storyboards at the moment. I've joined the sleepy club. woke at 6 for no reason and had the shivers and felt rotten so made a couple of breakfasts and a hot water bottle and went for a small sleep. 9- 10 would be usual. Woke up after 2pm!! Feel much better though.

Snap, for no reason I know of I had the shivers yesterday as well , fine now though, and at last I'm walking on an even keel and my poorly back is OK, not good, but OK IYSWIM

Good you're improving PP, I think once weather improves a lot of us will feel much better, out in the garden and doing stuff

Today I want to pot up my coleus, now growing well despite having a hard, battered childhood. And I have a poppy of some sort from Morries that was destined for the volunteer patch, but never made it in time.

Plus maybe remove top of some tomatoes, getting a bit tall now & I'd rather the energy went into what I have

This is one of my lilies that I have been trying to keep free from lily beetle, so far so good.

These lilies are the look nice but no scent type

twopenny

No Bluey, no time to sort since last night

Soil could be a feature hillock or similar. I've seen that done on Garden Rescue.

Yes, the open gardens and villages aren't what they were. I've lost interest tbh as it's pricey and lost the personal touch.

Dusty, that's a big one!

Glad your a bit more with it Poppy. Avoiding neighbours???

Grumpy today. I was woken by my neighbours son leaving at 5am and car right under my bedroom window. It was cold and I couldn't get back to sleep. Tried to talk at 9am but she got in her car and went.

This is like when her brother removed my fence, it fell down because cheap and she vanished. I had to pick up the pieces and the cats pooed in the garden. Then she wouldn't pay half to replace. Seems I'm going to be on Rightmove this evening. Shame because it's been a lovely quiet place to live.

Ground my teeth and lost a bit so it's dentist again.

It's cold, cloudy and going to rain they say. Maybe some sun midweek at mid day. Not promising.

Hoping they are wrong about this too.

pink_poppy

That's a very nice sitooterie, Dusty. I love being outside - I think fresh air works wonders. Plus lots of sleep - I could quite happily sleep outside, as long as I was under a mosquito net or something, I can't be doing with things landing on me   

YBE, I was going to suggest a raised bed for all the excess soil, but you beat me to it. I had a sort of raised bed in my last garden, which doubled as a wee sitooterie.

Farway, glad your back is better, mine is too but took a while. My indoor tomatoes (given to me by lovely neighbour and unknown variety) are taller than me now - they're a bit 'Jack and the Beanstalk' tbh - are they ever going to stop growing?! I never thought to snip the tops off.

Aw, twopenny, that's awful about your neighbour. It must be bad if you're thinking about moving   Can you wear earplugs to avoid the early morning wake-up?? It's not something I could do myself as I hate things in my ears, but thought I'd mention it. My immediate neighbours are lovely, but you can never tell what you're going to get when you move somewhere new.

Working_Mum

YoungBlueEyes said:

OT we didn't get the promised storm yesterday, not even close. It did go cloudy about 1800, and drizzled and then lightly rained for about, oooh, a good half hour. Very disappointing as that forecast was from Tusky I wonder if @Working_Mum got it instead? We went round the village yesterday, also disappointing. It was basically a market with all the usual tat stalls selling cakes and gin.... I did get a couple of pics though Sunny here now, lovely and mild and Spring-like tbh, best day of the week. They say....

@YoungBlueEyes - biblical proportions of rain! I am always surprised how the weather can be so different 5 miles apart! My office is in your village - above the bridal shop in the village 

I will happily take some soil off your hands when you're ready YBE! I have continued removing the roof tiles from the end of my garden and have now popped them onto Fr33cycle as hardc0re in case anyone needed some. If it doesn't go I will hire a skip and put it all in there. Given I've taken almost a foot of gravel and tiles away from the garden I need to add soil to the area - I was thinking I'd do it in stages and might ask for manure from a local stable - am thinking slowly but surely building up the height of the soil (I don't have vehicular or wheelbarrow access to my back garden so need to lug everything down there by hand). The plants I have dug in seem to be happy enough and the birds have been crazy looking for worms.

I responded to a Fr33cycle offer of tomato plants on Saturday - I drove and collected them and ended up having a really lovely chat with the lady  who is selling plants to raise money for Ukraine (over £500 in the last 2 years)  - I bought some obviously! but she has since given me a few more to fill the huge space I now have to fill! There are some really lovely kind people in this world aren't there 

I've been super busy this last week with work so have been reading along but haven't been able to comment - your pictures and stories have kept me motivated!

YoungBlueEyes

I’m having a mare here, I’ve changed my password and it’s let me back in so hopefully that’s it now. 

@Working_Mum I’ll swop you my soil for your roof tiles if you like? I don’t know what I’ll do with those either but they’re more decorative than soil so I’ll think of something  

Pics (from this morning, grrrr!) of ground works and soil heap. It’s been sat there a wee while and there’s no weeds come up in it so I’d say it’s good clean soil 🤞🏻