Yesterday and Today
Saturday morning in town, the sun was shining and some leaves on the tree I’m watching are still holding on. I’ve chosen another selection of the posters that hide our closed post office for you to...
View ArticleChimneys, Lichen and A Hitch-hiker
Dark skies this morning and sunbeams lit up the lichen on the ash tree and made the chimneys across the road glow golden. My time at Roots today was spent potting on the growing asparagus plants. They...
View ArticleCrops and Colour at the Lottie
We picked the last of our raspberries, 180g, which pleased us greatly and they are now in the oven to become Apple and Raspberry Crisp using Nigel Slater’s recipe. As I walked around the plots, I was...
View ArticlePumpkin, Autumn Leaves and A Topper
It’s Hallowe’en and at our favourite coffee shop the young baristas have been carving pumpkins. The Autumn leaves get better and better with their beautiful colours. Our local knitter has been busy...
View ArticleHappiness Calendar
Here is the calendar from Action for Happiness to encourage us all to stay positive over November. Happy days!
View ArticleAutumn Tree, Leaves and A Final Flower
The tree I have been showing you each Saturday for the last month has lost more leaves as November gets started. Here are more Autumn leaves from the lane. And this is our last Dahlia for this year....
View ArticleLeaf, Crochet and A Poem
What a glorious leaf we saw on our walk round the block this damp afternoon. I am teaching myself to crochet hearts. I am hoping to make heart key rings for Hearts Together, the Hospital Hotel who...
View ArticleCake and A Poem
I love reading a new recipe that sounds good, making it and finding that it is as delicious as imagined! This is Brownie Banana Bread ready for the volunteers at Community Roots tomorrow. Eating a...
View ArticleFlowers, Asparagus and Hopes
Next door to Roots is a small company van where beautiful flowers grown on a local specialist farm are bunched up for sale. There are fresh blooms and dried flowers and all of them are gorgeous. Today...
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