Our normally scorching summer days have turned balmy. The nights are cool.
The swallows are gathering to fly south to Africa.
Apples are ripe and dropping from the trees.
Everyone is left feeling rather disappointed and deflated. After a long, wet and miserable winter (even though not as cold as usual), we have had a very short summer.
All signs are pointing to another long winter, and a cold one at that. We shall see what happens.
Most of the sunflower fields are already faded and waiting to be harvested, but there are still the odd ones which have bright sunny flowers. Even on a dull and grey day they are beautiful and give a much needed splash of warm colour.
Annoyingly, my tomatoes are not yet ripe. I have the fruit in abondance, but not enough sun to ripen them. We may be eating a lot of green tomato pickles etc this year. Worst thing is that I will have to buy tomatoes to make sauces and preserve for winter. Feels really wrong to do that somehow when I have such a big potager.
The chicks are doing well. We have enough eggs to not have to worry about buying them. I would like a slight surplus, but that will happen when I enlarge the flock.
I was very excited last night when I was making us a light snack of eggs on toast for dinner, and we had double yolkers! What a bonus!
OK, enough time spent inside, there is work to be done in the terrain.
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