Lost Weekend

In the last two weeks I’ve literally only been outside twice - it’s just too easy to stay indoors when it’s November! But thank goodness for the allotment which is motivation to move, at least at the weekend. And the sun came out so the canal was looking lovely with lots of moored boats and the flowers on the bridge.

Walking through town was pretty quiet, with most of the shops shut, but quite a few plotholders were busying themselves at the allotment when we got there. The ground is too wet to do any serious work so we just enjoyed the fresh air for an hour or so. We weren’t sure the sun was going to make it out at this point.

The birds were very active. We saw redwings, blue tits, wrens, robins and dunnocks in the hedge. And crows and gulls were calling from the Marsh. We think this was a kestrel, though it looked very large sitting on the overhead wires - as you can see, it flew off!

When the sun emerged it was lovely and warm. We could hear the booming from military exercises on Salisbury Plain, which is about 30miles away, but mostly we could just hear birds - aah, lovely. Better than last weekend when we had to sit in the polytunnel because it was so rainy. I don’t know why my phone decided to make this video of Jamie in the rain last weekend. I’m pretty sure he didn’t actually do that nifty footwork 😃

So back home I finished off the last of my home-made spicy parsnip soup, with some Higgidy veggie cheese & pickle rolls. Yum.

Well, that’s another week gone. If they keep speeding by like this then we’ll soon have all been vaccinated and can move on with our lives again...Yay!

The song is for last weekend, which was too wet and dull to care about. It’s by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions.