1 J did a last bit of decorating, hanging all the wooden ornaments onto a picked-up branch – plenty of those around after the rough weather.
Decorating the branch
2 The next tranche of family have arrived. Hooray!
3 Everybody is busy in the kitchen cooking dinner together, Ham cooked in Coke and glazed with Honey and Ginger and served with creamy mash, broad beans in a white sauce and sweet corn. Delicious. We are blessed with sons-in-law who love to cook.
Preparing the meal together
1 We are promised four days of Summer starting tomorrow but today is a typical Autumn day, full “of mists and mellow fruitfulness” (From John Keats’ poem, To Autumn, 1820:)
Mist droplets on a web
Horses in the mist and a rabbit running away
2 I spent this damp day doing more sorting. If you’ve been following long, you’ll know that constant but gradual ‘de-cluttering’ of things I inherited is happening at our house! Today it was a bookshelf where I found some beautiful books which have gone straight back onto the shelves! Just look at these…..
The Fern World, published 1877.
Just look at that beautiful lettering!
Fronds unfurling – plate
Fronds unfurling -index to plate
Plate Four
Plate Four info
Published by the Great Western Railway in 1923
I travelled on some of those branch lines, pre Beeching.
I’m saving another treasure for another day. It is so lovely to handle these books knowing they were also loved by my Mum and Dad.
3 Pressed in a Diary and long forgotten, I discovered some beautiful pressed flowers. I picked all these in our garden the day we moved back to Cornwall mid January 2008. I am thrilled by the retention of colour in the primrose, the crocus, the snowdrop, the tiny blue flower and the greenery.
Beautiful flowers pressed January 2008
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