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Tag Archives: autumn
Print!
Exciting news!!! The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle has gone to print! It’s turning into a real book as we speak. Eeeekkkk! 🙂
Gunpowder plot
At the weekend we had a fire in the back garden for Bonfire Night. As regular readers will know I love Bonfire Night. While I can’t say I’ve got much sympathy with the Catholic vs Protestant gunpowder plot origins, I … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged autumn, baked potatoes, bonfire, bonfire night, COVID-19, family, fireworks, friends, gunpowder, gunpowder plot, lockdown, marshmallows, sparklers, traditions, winter
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A moment
I am not long back from school drop-off, and I’m taking a moment before I head off to my writing desk. I’ve made myself a coffee. Now I’m sitting, mulling things over, watching the rain trickling down the windows. I … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged autumn, coffee, quiet time, rain, roast leaves, school drop-off, taking a moment, thinking
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Seasonal rituals
The children went back to school and it all seemed to be going okay. Then the news came that gatherings were being restricted to six people due to a rise in Covid numbers. My heart sank. After all that has … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged allotment, autumn, bulbs, children, colds, cough, Covid, covid restrictions, covid test, COVID-19, crocuses, flu, geese, manure, migration, new term, nurse, pansies, parenting, return to school, runny nose, tulips, vaccines, winter, work
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Blooming
Don’t tell my dad…the delphinium he gave me is flowering for the second time this year. Not one of his own flowered even once. Shhh – he’ll be so cross!
Posted in Growing things
Tagged autumn, dad, delphinium, gardening, second flowering
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Tin Coast
Having grown up in a seaside town I have a pathological aversion to anything touristy so Cornwall has never really appealed. I went on a school trip to St Ives once, and I’ve been through Cornwall lots of times to … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged atlantic ocean, autumn, bal maidens, board games, Bottalack, Cape Cornwall, children, cliff tops, Cornwall, cottage, family, family time, getting away from it all, gorse, holiday, holiday cottage, Hot Chocolate, Levant mine, log burner, miners cottages, mining, parenting, penzance, perspective, Poldark, Porthcurno, reflection, scilly isles, sea, squalls, St Ives, thick walls, time, Tin Coast, tin mining, waves, weather
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Hunter’s Moon
I have been enjoying the Autumn evenings over half term. There is still enough light to do half an hour in the garden after the littlest ones are down to bed and I’m often getting a stack of washing in … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Growing things
Tagged autumn, cuttings, evening, garden, grass, hanging baskets, hunter's moon, pruning, roses, soil, sunset, washing, worms
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