Category: autumn

autumn · general stuff

autumn

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)38 Comments

I know I’ve gone on about it before but autumn really is my favourite time of year. I love the colours on the trees, the picking of blackberries, apples and chestnuts, the cold mornings and the bright crisp days.

I also love the first daytime lighting of the fire after the summer, then curling up with my knitting and just enjoying being peaceful.

Hope you have a peaceful, relaxing weekend where you are.

PS: I took the pictures to remind myself how nice the room looks when it’s tidy – it doesn’t often look like this I can tell you!

autumn · chicken stuff · garden stuff

tidy up time

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)26 Comments

The last few days have been spent in the garden where everything is winding down. We’ve picked the last of the tomatoes, courgettes, raspberries and carrots and have lots of onions now in storage. There are a few beans still producing, a couple of potato bags left to dig up and the cabbages, kale and broccoli are still going strong. But it definitely feels like we’re getting down to the last of the yummies our garden has to offer us for this year.

We’ve had a bumper crop of grapes this year – although we mostly leave them for the birds as they’re not very sweet.

Now the garden is being tided and cleared ready for digging in some compost to get everything ready for next season and then a nice winter rest. The chickens have been helping me tidy up – they do a great job of breaking up the soil!

It’s been lovely to watch them roaming around outside of their run which is possible once again now that Toby isn’t spending so much time in the garden (a small boy who likes to put anything in his mouth and run around barefoot does not mix well with large quantities of chicken poo on the grass!)

autumn · general stuff

back to routine

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)20 Comments

We’ve had quite a fun half term break with much excitement at the snow that arrived on Wednesday and the spooky goings-on that Halloween brought on Friday. I’m glad to get back to term-time routines though. I found myself flagging at the end of the week and my good humour drained by the mopping up of too many wee puddles (toilet training for Toby is still very much a work in progress and when I’m able to laugh about it I’ll write more about our adventures!)

So it’s back to the familiar and comforting routines made all the more fun by walking to school through the fallen leaves in the early morning autumn sunshine.

I do like this time of year!