Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

The Linaria flowers are lovely, Dusty. Is the foliage to the left of them the same plant?? Aye, the hospital appointment for me was a one-off - hopefully - I never want to go back...

I don't think I've ever been to Filey, cheshirecat, probably the furthest I've been on that coastline was Scarborough.

Still sunny and warm here, wort   Hope your return to work is going okay.

Something has been nibbling my tattie flower buds and the remaining ones don't look as if they're ever going to flower. AR, what was your secret??   We had Cajun salmon with shop bought new potatoes and braised leek the other night - it was lush. Hope your homegrown tatties taste lovely   

Wonder how YBE is getting on with Cissie

-taff

Dustyevsky said:

I'm still confused, though I think it looks impressively built. What could you do in a Goth box that we non Goths couldn't do?  Mrs Dusty and I weren't too enamoured with all the nonsense, so we went along with the "3 weeks to flatten the economy," and then we just got on with life....as much as we could, that is.

Why thank you, we did our best and that fabric was a butch to sew....It was just to have people over outside nd not get rained on. Turned out to be one of the best things we've done, we ended up using it daily and I liked to sit in it, occasionally admire the plants, then get up to do something I'd noticed or thought about..The sides could be rolled up and thank to the overhangs, not much rain made it in even then. The cats liked it too to sit in and sleep. Now they hate us.

Lovely flowers, and a delicate colour..

YoungBlueEyes

I'm only quickly lurking while they're all still in bed.

Cissie and Lovely Cousin are here, flight was fine, Lovely Cousin thinks the house and garden are lovely. Cissie sat down, looked around her and said "didn't you know we were coming, no?"  

That's a bu99er about my blighty toms not having to be binned Apodemus but I'll know for next time, thank you. Good story too, made me chuckle.

Not as nice as Dusty's or Farway's pic but here a bit of a cheery pic for 2p - 



Filey is worth a visit next time you're across this side pp. It's gentler and quainter - Brid/Scarborough are Filey on steriods. I hope you won't let that bad weather put you off cheshirecat  

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

The Linaria flowers are lovely, Dusty. Is the foliage to the left of them the same plant?? Aye, the hospital appointment for me was a one-off - hopefully - I never want to go back...

The Linaria 'Canon Went' flowers are small, but they have strength in numbers. That lot self-seeded by the path on a piece of ground 'awaiting development.' Beside them, some Verbascum blattaria alba also self-seeded, and it's the foliage of one of those next to the Linaria. PM me if you want seeds of either, or both.

Dustyevsky

-taff said:

Dustyevsky said:

I'm still confused, though I think it looks impressively built. What could you do in a Goth box that we non Goths couldn't do?  Mrs Dusty and I weren't too enamoured with all the nonsense, so we went along with the "3 weeks to flatten the economy," and then we just got on with life....as much as we could, that is.

Why thank you, we did our best and that fabric was a butch to sew....It was just to have people over outside nd not get rained on. Turned out to be one of the best things we've done, we ended up using it daily and I liked to sit in it, occasionally admire the plants, then get up to do something I'd noticed or thought about..The sides could be rolled up and thank to the overhangs, not much rain made it in even then. The cats liked it too to sit in and sleep. Now they hate us.

Ah, we had our old pop-up shelter we used to sell from at plant fairs etc with similar facilities. After the first lockdown, many people around here didn't bother much, but a minority stayed locked-up for ages. There's a couple near us whom I've not seen outdoors since, except a few times in their car. He even puts the bins out between midnight and 01.00.

Well, it's still raining here and windy with it. Here are the photos of one individual who's enjoying the unseasonable weather, and what a handsome bird he/she is!

Yesterday, I thought I'd snapped the thrush picking up a slug, but it looks like a worm in a full size photo. Pictures are grainy because they were taken through the kitchen window. I have spoken to this bird, and it's stayed around rather than flown off, but thrushes seem more timid than the blackies. 

Farway

Once the rain started yesterday, it just went on & on, and was still at it when I got up. Now stopped, but very dull & damp.

Good bird pics Dusty, I just seem to have loads of fat pigeons on next door's bird table, and magpies, with gull flybys

And Daisy Bank rename for Boot Hill sounds good to me. 

By coincidence, there is a road near here called Rose Hill, but I think that must have been a developer's fancy, not a rose in sight last time I looked.

Being so soggy, I think only gardening will be bringing in the garden wheelie bin once bin men have been

Managed to get my raspberry pic before yesterday rain, it was just starting to rain as I took the photo

It's Heritage autumn raspberry, from Morries this March, £2.50, of course, in a large tub 'cos it's a runner apparently

Seems plenty of flowers to come, not expecting jam, but a few for breakfast will be welcome

-taff

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm only quickly lurking while they're all still in bed.

Cissie and Lovely Cousin are here, flight was fine, Lovely Cousin thinks the house and garden are lovely. Cissie sat down, looked around her and said "didn't you know we were coming, no?"  

That did make me laugh! Happy visiting! It's lovely that they came hotfooting it over when they think you need it...

Dusty, we stayed locked up for quite a while, mostly due to  me being immunocompromised/health condition etc and after having it once and not being able to breathe very much,and that at the tail end of it, I'm glad I did. But I'm in a built up area, if we'd been elsewhere it would have probably been a different story.

I've been eyeing up verbascums lately, they do give you some bang for your buck and prettier than foxgloves I think, although I did succumb to a few chocolate ones in pots on sale for next year...

Dustyevsky

-taff said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm only quickly lurking while they're all still in bed.

Cissie and Lovely Cousin are here, flight was fine, Lovely Cousin thinks the house and garden are lovely. Cissie sat down, looked around her and said "didn't you know we were coming, no?"  

Dusty, we stayed locked up for quite a while, mostly due to  me being immunocompromised/health condition etc and after having it once and not being able to breathe very much,and that at the tail end of it, I'm glad I did. But I'm in a built up area, if we'd been elsewhere it would have probably been a different story.

I've been eyeing up verbascums lately, they do give you some bang for your buck and prettier than foxgloves I think, although I did succumb to a few chocolate ones in pots on sale for next year...

 I'm not being judgemental. Everyone should do their own due diligence based on the facts. We did a risk/benefit analysis and behaved accordingly. My only grump is that the facts weren't made clear by MSM, which is what most people use most of the time. Some very dodgy psychology went on.

And without being alarmist, I'm inclined to think the lurgy isn't done yet. I'm still following developments daily, and IMO no one should be blasé....or too trusting.

Foxgloves or verbascums? We don't need to be split on this! Here, Mrs Dusty and I mostly let them do their own thing, though I may introduce the odd 'special' one from time to time.

Great news this morning! The local council enforcer woman finally rang to confirm the complaint made against us has no substance. Well, we knew that, but it's good the complainants get to know it too....maybe. "Hell hath no fury like a NIMBY scorned."

Farway, I have an almost ripe Sungold at last! However, I also have raspberry envy. Every one of the Polkas I bought and heeled-in over winter, died.

-taff

There is that, why choose indeed? have both! didn't think of that..

Had to google what msm was, I had some very weird responses...hopefully it means mainstream media? I dunno, I don't watch the news or listen to it, I only read the guardian online for the cooking and gardening bits, but what I did glean, the gov people were absolutely useless, liars and money grubbing bar stewards so not much change there..And I discovered my estimation of how much of the population was regrettably stupid went from 25 to 75 percent. Nice to have a science minister this time round but we'll see...

I see your emubuggerance with a saying I've never heard of till today, as uttered by Chris on the daily os thread...she went to see a film and apparently, it gave her face a charabanc ride, meaning it was very funny...I laughed at that one..

Farway, do you think someone sticks a pin in the dictionary and decides to name all the streets after whatever the word is even if there's zero chance of whatever it is being found in miles?

Well, i thought courgettes after a certain amount of growth were tough and inedible to snails and slugs but they've proved me wrong and eaten the center out of one of the two I have...This year has been absolutely rubbish veg wise. At least the parsely is romping away..

Farway

Dustyevsky said:

Great news this morning! The local council enforcer woman finally rang to confirm the complaint made against us has no substance. Well, we knew that, but it's good the complainants get to know it too....maybe. "Hell hath no fury like a NIMBY scorned."

Farway, I have an almost ripe Sungold at last! However, I also have raspberry envy. Every one of the Polkas I bought and heeled-in over winter, died.

Good news on the NIMBY front. Of course now council know you exist & our new masters expect compulsory acres of solar panels in your fields.

We have some around here, and near DD, I can't say they are obtrusive, and on balance preferable to acres of houses without any amenities or services.

I had to look up Polka, seems good, but perhaps my older Heritage is from tougher peasant stock

-taff said:

Farway, do you think someone sticks a pin in the dictionary and decides to name all the streets after whatever the word is even if there's zero chance of whatever it is being found in miles?

Well, i thought courgettes after a certain amount of growth were tough and inedible to snails and slugs but they've proved me wrong and eaten the center out of one of the two I have...This year has been absolutely rubbish veg wise. At least the parsely is romping away..

I think these days, road names are handed down by Town Hall diktat. 

I know in past the developer just chose a name, one here named it after his wife, another after the then Prime Minister, or maybe that's where the brown envelope went to?

We do have an estate where roads are named after coins, shilling, penny etc. 

And a Shakespeare play one, Tempest, Florence

Garden waste bin not yet emptied, I have a feeling I've been missed out today . PIA because it's all online robots to flag it up, no humans involved. But I have to wait until tomorrow, just in case they are working late.