Having made one of my trips down from the wood with a sack truck full of stone one of the local estate gamekeepers followed me down with a gun over his shoulder. I stood talking to him for a few minutes when a pack of hounds came racing towards us, about 20 or more followed by 2 more keepers with guns. Wee Uff just about had a heart attack (he was helping me) when these big hounds came rushing towards us. He just about jumped onto my shoulders.
To say he's wussified is an understatement. If a sheep looks at him a bit funny it sends him racing away. A big dog bit him when he was 12 weeks old and it took me years to get him to accept other dogs.
Anyway, I came out of the wood and him behind the gate as they were culling foxes.
You can tell it's been good gardening weather when this thread slips down to page three or four.
My minor grump today is what can't people agree on how to spell the surname of the Ukrainian president? It seems to be Zelenskyy officially according to his Twitter user name and Wikipedia, others say Zeleskyi, but The Guardian always spells it as Zelenskiy and other media outlets like the BBC always use Zelensky. I know he's busy at the moment but in the age where search engines work best with exact spelling, you'd think it would be important to sort out.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Not gardening weather here today @wild edges . Cold, wet and windy since late morning. Maybe down to variations of spellings though. Or maybe just lazy journalism....
I had to hide in the shed yesterday with several layers on to do some seed sowing - no chance of doing it outside in the wind. JW on the radio with Steve Harley, so a bit of boogying and general singing. Good stuff. Might have got more seeds sown if I'd left the radio in the kitchen though...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Re spelling, isn’t it a result of translating from a different alphabet? Often relies on phonetics, but as you say, you’d think there would be a consensus.
This isn't curmudgeonly but maybe there's a curmudgeonly cloud expert. There's a really weird cloud formation in the NE sky over my part of London. The clouds are all radiating in straight lines from a central point like sun rays. I assume the central point is close to the horizon but there's a house in the way. They're the thin clouds that normally form roughly horizontal lines. What could have caused this phenomenon?
Not gardening weather here today @wild edges . Cold, wet and windy since late morning.
It's been glorious here all day. If I'd known I would have worked yesterday while it rained and gardened today. I had an hour or so in the garden with the kids this morning though which is just about long enough to plant 3 seeds with their help and then clean up all the spilt compost.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Wee Uff just about had a heart attack (he was helping me) when these big hounds came rushing towards us. He just about jumped onto my shoulders.
To say he's wussified is an understatement. If a sheep looks at him a bit funny it sends him racing away. A big dog bit him when he was 12 weeks old and it took me years to get him to accept other dogs.
Anyway, I came out of the wood and him behind the gate as they were culling foxes.
Maybe down to variations of spellings though. Or maybe just lazy journalism....
I had to hide in the shed yesterday with several layers on to do some seed sowing - no chance of doing it outside in the wind. JW on the radio with Steve Harley, so a bit of boogying and general singing. Good stuff.
Might have got more seeds sown if I'd left the radio in the kitchen though...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
There's a really weird cloud formation in the NE sky over my part of London. The clouds are all radiating in straight lines from a central point like sun rays. I assume the central point is close to the horizon but there's a house in the way.
They're the thin clouds that normally form roughly horizontal lines.
What could have caused this phenomenon?
No idea, but it might be this ?
https://www.britannica.com/science/crepuscular-ray