Week 35
A week of no plans...
Hello!
I am away this week, not actually in the above bay of turquoise and gold (which is Mother Ivey’s Bay, by the way) but still in Cornwall a little further down the coast. This means I haven’t had a chance to do my usual round up, and I hope you will forgive me, and take yourself to last week’s comment section to see what was what.
It seemed such a shame to break our run of posts and our gathering of weekly seasonal observations that I thought I would pop this up and hope you will comment as usual.
I will be back to gather them all up into one of our usual posts ahead of next Friday, hopefully with a batch of fresh pictures like the above in my own camera roll. For now please do drop your seasonal observations from this week in the comments section below. What have you noticed/smelt/eaten etc…that has felt really ‘this week’ about your week? (Am hoping mine will be: shoulders unclenching/salt air/pasties)
Have a lovely week! x
Happy holidays! I spent every summer from babe-in-arms to early twenties visiting the Padstow/Newquay area, so that picture sings August to me. Hope you're having a fab time. My seasonal observations for the week: I spent yesterday evening clambering through nettles to pick blackberries, admiring sloes and elderberries and haws and rosehips along the way, and now they're happily steeping in gin. Lots of brambles in my future. We also cracked open the sloe vodka we made last November.
Have a brilliant- and restful - time away Lia. Love that part of Cornwall! No need to apologise for the lack of weekly round up - we’d all much rather you had a break. As you can see everyone keeping the faith and carrying on sharing these wonderful seasonal moments of joy ! You’ve trained us well!
My moments this week have been - being captivated by the Blue harvest moon shining benevolently over us nightly most of the week. Picking all the plums off our Victoria tree ( planted by my Mum, so I always think of her as I pick) and turning them into Mulled Wine Plum Jam to give away to friends at Christmas - it’s a yearly joy and pleasure! And everyone loves it!
Finally making the most of this golden, late summer vibe as the harvest is gathered in, schools go back, and the garden produce goes into a final flurry of plenty! I’m a retired teacher, the child of 2 teachers ( in fact all my family were teachers) so this is the New Year for me! It’s wonderful to be able to relax and enjoy September!
I had a little moment of creative pleasure last night during my “ golden hour” stroll round the garden...I decided to give the bird bath a good clean and scrub, and when I re-filled it to the brim I floated some gorgeous golden rudbeckia flowers in it decorated with leaves and small purple petals. It was a lovely moment.