It is so important to have good friends to support when needed. Thank you to the friend who posted this on Fb today.. 
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Friends
Post Box Topper, Street Furniture and Flowers
As our local children start the new school year, our local knitter has produced another lovely post box topper in honour of Rick, our crossing man who sees children and adults alike safely over the road. 
We loved how this piece of street furniture has been made special with the brass cut-out of Truro Cathedral on the sides.
There are still lots of Cosmos and Dahlias flowering at the allotment so we picked a bunch to enjoy at home.
Support and Cookies
We’ve baked a bunch of cookies today to take with us tomorrow morning to support our local postal workers who are striking for better conditions.
Oat Cookies and Chocolate and Oat Fingers
Talented Bury St Edmunds member has kindly baked a cake that simply demonstrates the struggle that our posties are in today.
And I can’t go without mentioning that Queen Elizabeth has died this afternoon. I’ve never been a royalist  but I do feel sad at the breaking news which has got to me for some reason, perhaps because she was also a Mum, a Granny and a Great Granny and all those people will miss her so. This appeared in my feed and I like it. She was such a good sport and clearly  loved being a part of that sketch. Thank you to the artist.
Clouds, Cucumbers and A Baby Squash
Such heavy showers all day with blue skies in between, giving us really dramatic skies.
We’ve harvested lots of cucumbers, loads of courgettes and just three baby squash, called Summer Sunburst.
Roots, Books and A Poem
We spent the morning with the Roots community today for Volunteer Tuesday. P and I planted over 1000 winter salad seeds and the lovely Mr S was working with a team on laying out the beds in the new poly tunnel.
“National Read a Book Day on September 6 calls all book lovers to indulge in their favorite hobby, guilt-free. Bringing new worlds to life, books enlighten us and transport us on exciting adventures. They can challenge our perspectives on the human experience in ways unmatched by other media. In a world deluged by technology, National Read a Book Day encourages us to silence the noise and turn the pages for a while.”
Here are the books we are reading at the moment:
Brian Bilston, poet, alerted me to the fact that today is National Book Day and here is his poem, posted here with his permission. I love his clever  sense of humour.
Potting On, Pan Stand and Apology
Yesterday, before the storms came in, I potted on the 30 little Wallflowers that had arrived on Saturday. They will replace the Petunias which are still flowering so I don’t want to disturb them just yet.
The drought finished off our flower tower in the pan stand so I thought I’d show you what it was like at its best.
My iPad is telling me that there are comments etc on the last week’s posts but won’t show them to me so I apologise if you have left a comment recently. I am trying to sort it and will reply as soon as I can.
Red Lettuce, Sunflower Seeds and Dessert
Our lettuce has bolted!
The birds have been loving the sunflower seeds from the head we brought back. 
I decorated the  Cheesecake I made yesterday with our last three Violas and it went down a storm at the party.
Lime and Ginger Cheesecake
Bird Feeder
It’s been a quiet indoors day, wet and windy and a good time to bake for a shared party event tomorrow. The wind blew the bird feeder pole over but that didn’t stop the Great Tit for coming for its peanuts.
1939 and Sweetcorn
On this day in 1939, my Mum and Dad were married.They were to have honeymooned in Paris but given that WWII broke out on September 3rd they had a weekend in Blackpool instead before my Dad went off to the army for five years.
Our sweetcorn has been brilliant and is still going. This was today’s lunch.
Action for Happiness, Flowers and Tomatoes
If you’d like the printable version, here’s the link to their site. https://actionforhappiness.org/calendar
There are still lots of flowers in the garden.
Clematis Nelly Moser
Dahlia
An arch full of Clematis Haldine
Japanese Anemone
Hesperantha
Cornflower
Crinodendron
Lavender
Cosmos
Dianthus
Californian poppy
Million Kisses
Roxanne
We have picked and eaten the last of our tomato crop. The Chocolate Cherries are the best flavour and we’ll grow more next year. The Yellow ones are attractive but not very tasty.
Chocolate Cherry and Yellow Submarine tomatoes
