Loving those leaves ... Friday 25th Oct

A quiet day at home today as the teenagers seem happy to be in. To be fair the weather isn’t great, and they both get on with some homework which is to be encouraged. In an effort to be useful I decide to clear the garden. Whilst I enjoyed walking through the leaves in the woods yesterday, I’m not quite as keen when the leaves are all around the house and on the lawn.

After sweeping the leaves up from around the house I rake the rest off the lawn. The problem is as soon as I get finished the wind blows and the next lot come down. At this time of year it’s a vicious circle. I finish outside by completing weeding the flower beds, and I hope that is the garden put to bed until the spring. Apart that is, from sweeping leaves of course.

I take a walk with the eldest in the evening to blow out some more cobwebs. There are no school holidays in November, and so the teenagers will be in school now until Christmas. I think this school year that November and March may be the only two months that there are no holidays. So its eight dark weeks of school to look forward to, with the clocks going back this weekend.

Yours needing some sun.

Jay