Friday, September 4

Trying to banish the autumnal blues

*if I don't leave a comment on your lovely blogs, it seems that blogger is not playing nicely - fingers crossed it won't be for long 🀞 

Today, in and effort to prevent my head imploding from a murky mix of autumnal blues, post holiday drearies and driech weather - I threw myself and the dog into the glasshouse to see if I could sort it out .... 

Almost a reset for both the greenhouse and for me I suppose, especially as the weather kept drizzling and that in itself is rather a downer for me, so armed with a large travel mug of tea, the radio and an easily excitable dog we trouped off to the garden much to her disappointment!

Most of the morning was wading through all the things which have been temporarily homed here from my parents move, I am hoping that this weekend we can takes lots over to their new place once Himself and I have built their shed - weather permitting of course......

By lunchtime both the dog and myself were fed up so we trudged back to the house and we had a bit of time out. In the afternoon with the shredder and the dustbin in full use, I finally discovered that I do actually have a floor in the glasshouse again.

Woo hoo I was finally able to reach my glasshouse grown vegetables and harvest what was ready - a glimmer just at the right time.


On a different note - I am launching myself into 'hand made chrimbly' I am going to attempt to make at least one gift per person. I have quite a stash of 'useful crafting stuff' and I think it is time to start using it up. I am thinking along the lines of crochet (can't knit any more as one of my thumbs just cries in pain), painting  (carefully - again hand issues), air dried clay, sewing and baking.

And talking of baking, I have just made some cracking ginger biscuits. It comes from an American site so everything is in cups. I shall do the 'Himself taste test' and if he thinks they are worth making again, I will do but I will convert the amounts into grams.


*later* 

I swapped some of those ginger biscuits for a bowlful of windfall apples - hmmm what shall I make with these? And the 'Himself verdict?' They are definitely have again.

I spent most of last Tuesday painting my folks shed which had the bad grace to fall on both the dog and myself courtesy of a huge gust of wind. Willow decided she'd rather sit inside the van for safety and I had to wash paint off my arm, out of my hair and chuck my shirt into the washing machine!

Any hoo - end of grumble, tomorrow is another day (shed building) and to round up Friday - Himself has lit the fire - autumnal vibes anyone? 



10 comments:

  1. A lovely way to banish the autumn blues.

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    1. It certainly helped - and the ghouse looks better for it, just need to tidy away the now empty growing tubs and put in winter crops :)

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  2. I welcome autumn, particularly after the summer we have just had, but I can understand how some people don't. Apple pie, apple crumble, Danish apple cake, apple pasties - all good and easy to make. The shed is looking good, despite it falling on you!
    Have a good week
    Best wishes
    Ellie

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    1. The shed - now complete and in situ - definitely looks better for a coat of paint however my poor shirt has been written off and relegated to 'work wear' 😟
      Autumn - the melancholy season - I am trying to see the 'beauty' in the decay but all I feel is the demise of summer and that is what I struggle with.

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  3. We have been lucky with another summery day here in Wales. The shorts came back out and we headed for Harlech Castle. Think we will be starting to bed the garden down for winter when we get home later this week πŸ˜€

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    1. There is/was a heatwave forecast for the last couple of days and it has been warmer. The garden is definitely very autumnal with leaves falling and colours changing.

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  4. I could use a greenhouse that big.....and it would still be too small!!

    Gusty showers here too

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    1. Where I worked in the walled garden - the ghouse was 85 foot long and that was too small too!

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  5. I have been rather missing in action and feel on the edge of sliding somewhere I don’t wish to go…very pleased to see your greenhouse as it was..it’s real life rather than curated loveliness…now I love loveliness but it’s very rarely real so thank you! Xx

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    1. I had noticed you were a little quiet, we all need time out for one reason or another, somethings have to slide to allow space for self care. Make sure you look after yourself and when you feel a little more like you would like, blogging might return to you. I have been there a couple of times - hang in there x

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