Good Morning to you all on this sunny, hot summer’s day, temperatures are already into the mid 30s but early this evening a southerly buster will roar through and drop temps by 10° (can’t wait.)
I was out at about 8am to the council seniors centre as they wanted an overdue safety survey of our licenced area completed - the person who normally does it let me down.
On the way home bought some ice cream to sustain me over the hot weather.
Also remembered to take photos of some of my geraniums out the front of my house @Eliza , they are looking a bit ratty this year, they are usually a much better display, I don’t think the hot weather agrees with them.
They are all from cuttings and just stuck in the ground, I have some different colours in the back garden but these flower all year round.
Apart from that not much happening today, I am waiting for a call from a tyre place as I have ordered new tyres for my car but it will take a day or so to get them in. Probably big demand - 4 for the price of 3 deal.
I shall probably just go for my second shower of the day.
Morning all – as it is only 6.30 am I haven’t looked out at the weather this morning, although local radio tells me it is cold and windy
Had a busy day yesterday, queues everywhere, including the petrol station where I had to wait for 10 minutes before I could get to the pump and 20 minutes in the Post Office to post cards to Australia!
My visitors are arriving today so I probably won’t be posting for a few days (yes I know you are all devastated but try to be brave!)
@Bruce I remember throwing a Geranium away and then finding it had rooted again , So more or less indestructible … We have to bring how’s indoors to over winter them or the cold/frost will finish them off .
Ive ordered 80 of them as plug plants in red and white for March .
Ive nothing planned for the day , Bin day and we have them at 7.30am so no chance of a Lie in .
Have a good day all .
The temperature plummeted at about 5pm as the southerly came through so I have every door and window open to try and cool the house down after a 34° max.
Getting the warning is one thing, whether it happens is another, we shall see.
Good morning good people! Lots of people around as one would expect being that season. And we are one of them. All good and we have excellent neighbours. There is one in particular lady that we stay and chat for a while - wheel chair bound so my wife takes lunch on a regular basis. It’s what we do.
A fairly quiet sort of day today
I’ve had my new front of house ‘meet and greet’ work boots delivered. I’ll need to work some Granger’s dubbin into them and then bull them up with some quality black parade gloss polish…
I’m of to the theatre tonight, Chilli junior’s college is putting on a display of contemporary dance, a subject that I know absolutely nothing about, as long as I don’t have to join in!
The bar will be open which is something I DO know about and will most certainly be joining in!
Good Morning from Foxy’s World…
Benign weather this morning 7 degrees C and cloudy with a no show from the sun, although a beautiful orange glow where it will rise in about half an hour. I had to stand a few minutes when I got to the gap in the hedgerow and contemplate just how insignificant we are…I then glanced at the stopwatch and ran off…
I love geraniums and had a few scattered around the garden last year but the recent spell of cold weather polished them off. I’ve got a couple of clumps of Penstemons in the front garden and they are a bit more hardy and they produce some very attractive bell shaped flowers.
I hope the thunderstorms pass without incident Bruce, they are fairly rare around here, probably because the hot weather is rare also…
I can relate to those queues of traffic and people Sheila, I sometimes have to smirk though when I’m out on my morning walk and pass a mile of queueing traffic on the main road due to roadworks or just the volume of traffic. I had to visit the Tesco yesterday afternoon and it was manic…You would have thought world war three had broken out…
We must have been looking at the same sky this morning Besoeker, but your photo is better than anything I could have produced…A very nice shot…
Glad to hear you have found some work Chilli, but I’m not sure about those shoes…I’m a bit of an “Excused Boots Bisley” if you can remember what that is…I even bought black running shoes (I always hated running in black running shoes) when I worked on the post. Nobody ever seemed to notice that I wasn’t wearing standard issue…
Your geranium children are beautiful! I love your pink species. You made me laugh about throwing one and it rooting; my exceptionally talented mother used to make a go at geranium cuttings, but they invariably died. With the exception of a parachute plant I have that she started in the early 1970s, she had quite the brown thumb. There was many a time that we apologized to her houseplants when she brought one home.
Those powerful gust and storm fronts are the best! There is something very exciting about them - flinging open windows and anchoring cushions and the like. Free air conditioning with a show!
That is certainly was! Gorgeous! Enjoy your company.
Just don’t mix up the nutcracker on the boots and the polish on the mixed nuts. Have a good time tonight!
I agree with Bruce. You’ll just have to show them to a few comfortable chairs and tell them they’ll have to wait.
Pretty! That is an unfamiliar species. You and @Besoeker need to do a better job of sharing those sunrises this direction .
I had a quick little run because I’m in the middle of painting that is nagging at me. The first day is the blocking, and the second is working out the major points. I’ll come back in a few days and start adding foam and highlights. It’s a sofa-sized beast, so I am having fun with it…
Those soles look like those appalling ones that are affected by bacteria (or something like that) and disintegrate. For a period my work boots at BHP were supplied with those, walk about in them and the soles disintegrate if they are not worn immediately.
Even worse there is nothing you can do about it but throw them in the bin and get a new pair. A far cry from the previous rubber soles.
Thank you, @Bruce. I picked up a brush and started painting when I was in my mid-50s. It’s all about solving problems and figuring out the skill over time. Talent? Not so much. My mother had it though and I was envious at how she could go about painting with such ease.
Thank you, @Psmith and @OGF. I’ll post a final photo once life gives me a day pass to finish it.
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