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Andrew Jones's avatar

More than 100 grey seals hauled out on the beach in a Cornish cove as we hit peak pupping season.

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Amanda Glanville's avatar

A special moment watching the big orangey Hunter's 'Supermoon' rise from Mousehole in Cornwall over the sea. Instant regrets for missing out on a ticket to enjoy it getting chilly in the Jubilee Pool's Full Moon dip, and too bright to see the comet. Suddenly gone! A bat (pipistrelle?) started fluttering over our heads. A moment to completely savour rather than try and capture on camera. Then a quick trot up the hill to the holiday cottage for baked potato and fresh crab salad for tea.

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

The magnificent Hunters Moon shining in the windows when I get up in the night - moonlight is so beautiful! Knitting and crafting little pumpkins an a range of Autumn colours and stitches - I’ll post a picture on Sunday! There’s a clever, easy one with thick chenille yarn and toilet roll middles- I’ll be gifting them as little Autumn decorations to friends far and wide. A delicious warm salad of roasted squash, Brussels sprouts and maple toasted walnuts sprinkled with goats cheese- yummy.

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Lia Leendertz's avatar

Gosh that sounds delicious

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Cathryn Thompson's avatar

Looking forward to your crafty photo! Hope you are feeling OK

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

Yes better and better each day - thank you Cathryn!

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Noemi's avatar

Blustery wind helping the birch trees part ways with their catkins and dainty leaves 🍂 it is an excited, swirling goodbye. 🍂

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Sarah B's avatar

Turning over the mud in my garden bed, and accidentally spearing a potato with every other forkful!

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The Rebel Stargazer's avatar

Finally seeing Comet Tsusinchan Atlas after incessant cloudy nights, even if it was through binoculars rather than by eye, seeing that tail got me very excited!

Sitting under the hunter’s moon with my little hunter (the cat) snuggling up to me

The first fog! I always wonder how it arrives, because the air was so mild, calm and clear before, no sign of any mist, but then in the morning it has arrived and all is grey and dripping…

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Art Vandelay's avatar

We've had some proper Camelot days full of golden low-angled sun followed by extremely rainy nights - almost all the outdoor bulbs are in, well-watered, we've bought a new doormat because the old one was choked with mud. Caught the full moon through glass in the early hours today, always a heart-lifting sight.

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Lia Leendertz's avatar

Camelot days! What a beautiful phrase. I hadn’t heard it before.

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Art Vandelay's avatar

I loved TH White’s Once and Future King as a child, and there’s a bit in that about how perfect Camelot was because it only rained after dark, and that became part of the song from the Camelot musical (so I tend to hear it now in Richard Harris’s singing voice, which is even nicer!) - https://youtu.be/Os-jJuwgNkA?feature=shared

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Wendy Turner's avatar

An evening neighbourhood walk in the company of the Hunter's moon. The garden is sighing, and gently folding in on itself.

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

Love that phrase Wendy! Describes it perfectly!

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Rosamund Saunders's avatar

Last night’s soft pink and blue sky, then the super moon and this morning’s silent mist

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palmisanocj@yahoo.com's avatar

Lovely entry with a GORGEOUS photo! Thank you for sharing.

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Lia Leendertz's avatar

Thank you!

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Sarah Chapman's avatar

Beautiful moon just before sunrise this morning.

I have already bought myself your 2025 Almanac, as I do every year. Love it.

Really enjoying your posts, thank you 💕

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Lia Leendertz's avatar

Thank you! Sorry i missed this earlier

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Anne's avatar

Incredible mushrooms in the traditional Munich food market and beautiful colours in the English Garden park.

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Cathryn Thompson's avatar

Lots of rain here too, then rainbows in the sun. Clearing some of the summer bedding and planting bulbs in hope of spring colour. University visits rumble on, and a sudden return of covid, hoping my daughter doesn’t pass it on!

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Lia Leendertz's avatar

Eek!

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Anne's avatar

Hope she’s ok and you avoid it Cathryn x

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Cathryn Thompson's avatar

Thanks, she’s feeling very sorry for herself but is on the mend. Luckily I seem to have dodged it!

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Anne's avatar

Very happy to hear that!

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Forever Hopeful's avatar

Waking to the comforting blanket of mist enveloping the garden; marvelling at the beauty of the super moon; cups of tea in the garden soaking up the warm autumn sun to the sound of the excited chatter of the birds; being stopped in my tracks by the glorious blazing Acer tree, only a day or two left before the leaves depart their branches to fall to the ground 🍂

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Debra Nicholson's avatar

This week we had a storm that produced olive size hail..pouring rain..thunder and lightening and winds! I've spent the day preparing vegetable pot pies with roasted veg. And apple cranberry pies. It's my youngest daughters birthday and she always requests "pie aand pie" as she puts it. Definitely fall( and the cranberries make me think winter!) Snohomish, Washington

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Cathryn Thompson's avatar

I think pie and pie adds up to a very good birthday!

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Debra Nicholson's avatar

It does..doesn't it!🥰

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Rosie C's avatar

Finding a huge parasol mushroom proudly standing in the dog-walking field behind my house.

Collecting autumn treasures to display in a jar on my Grandad’s old Victorian writing desk: hawthorn berries, rose-hips, fiery coloured leaves, conkers and crab apples.

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Sue Armstrong's avatar

Love a “nature table”!

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Rosie C's avatar

Me too!!

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