Today indoors it's quite dark due to overcast skies. There's the likelihood of rain although we did have a sunny Sunday. When the sun is out and shining through the yellow leaves the surrounding area looks glorious. The tomatoes are still on the vines in the covered yard, but most of them have been picked along with the pears. They should continue to ripen indoors. We brought the garden table and chairs into the covered yard as it's unlikely we'll sit outside now that it's got so much colder and windier. We'll also bring in the tender plants in pots.
Some of the ripening tomatoes and pears get used as they ripen
The rest of the pears are wrapped up and stored in the garage ready for bottling.
We've planted a lot of bulbs and made cuttings of rosemary. The hyacinths need planting in individual small pots so that I have some in flower for Christmas or the new year. I could only get blue ones this year although I prefer the white.
When the weather has been dry Mr P has been building his greenhouse on the vegetable plot site. He initially used some planks that were lining the raised beds, but had to order the rest of the wood, waterproof paint and perspex panels for the sides and clear corrugated ones for the roof.
Our daughter and grandson brought our food shopping around at the weekend. We had to talk from the top of the driveway because of the new Tier 3 restrictions and in any case we have to continue to be apart from one another. Meeting in gardens is not allowed. We would have to go to the park or somewhere similar to meet up with them and our local granddaughter. The rules are not clear about support bubbles. Our local grandson was going to come one day and help Mr P fix the roof onto the new greenhouse (wearing the obligatory mask) as his college has a half term break, but that's also cancelled. We had thought about going down to see our daughter in Berkshire as she has two weeks off from teaching for half term and she was going to isolate beforehand so that we could stay with her or alternatively go and stay in a hotel for a couple of days, but travel is also restricted and in the end it's not possible to drive the distance even though Mr P is fit enough to do so now. It's disappointing, but necessary for us to stay close to home.
At least I like going out for walks around our neighbourhood. There's always a different route to take around the village.
In August, before the new restrictions of meeting together in socially distanced larger groups there were fellowship gatherings at the parish church with picnics on the recreation ground and the church continues to be open for private prayer. We have joined in the online Sunday services and we have weekly updates through emails although miss the real contact of our friends and neighbours.
This is not a castle, but is the former army barracks which
is now a local store on the main road in our area.
Finally, the shrubs and trees are full of berries this year which will be good news for the birds. the olives on one of our olive trees has coloured up from green to red. Perhaps one day the little tree will be big enough to plant out and we'll be gathering our own olives along with the figs and other fruit. 😉
Thank you for your visit. Have a good day everyone!
