Don't worry, I don't mean that autumn has come early, but that the new football season has started (yawn). So now when I come in from the studio on Saturday afternoons, Malcolm will be watching a programme in which several retired footballers sit watching matches on monitors and getting over excited at missed chances and bad tackles. Then on Sunday afternoons, there is usually a match on ...... it's all about as exciting as watching my fingernails grow!! Having said it's not yet autumn, I could have been persuaded when out this morning that it is well on the way. It was very misty - so misty that when I got to my turning point, the hills had disappeared!!
Last year when there were lots of berries in the hedgerows, I said to Malcolm that it was a sign of a hard winter to come ..... he pooh-poohed that as an old wives' tale ..... then we had the worst winter in 40 years! Oh dear, there are lots of hawthorn berries
and far more rosehips than last year
The heavy mist meant that these spiderwebs were visible in the hawthorn hedge
You can see the droplets of moisture on this one (the photo should enlarge if you click on it)
The swallows are starting to gather in the mornings and evenings - a sign that soon they will head off south
Yesterday morning we went for a walk, then headed to The Main Street Trading Company for a cuppa (and a cake!). Of course I had to have a browse round the books ..... and yes, I bought one. (Actually I bought two - the other is for Malcolm's birthday next month)
There are lots of fabulous projects .... including making your own knitting yarn!
Much as I am enjoying knitting Maia, it does need a lot of concentration, so I thought I would start a pair of socks to do as well. I chose a pair from this book
unusually, the cuff is knitted first, then stitches are picked up along one edge and the socks then knitted traditionally on four needles
ps - I was at the dentist this afternoon. There had been a hiatus in my treatment, as my lovely dentist a) fell off her bike and broke her arm and b) decided to go back home to Greece. So this was my first appointment with my new dentist. He was very thorough, poking and prodding and taking xrays. The outcome is that I need to have a tooth out, a bit of reconstruction on a tooth which has broken and the usual thorough cleaning (followed of course by the pain of the bill).