Garden renovation

A garden that we had managed last year, given things a trim after we returned from New Zealand,but been prevented by the weather from working there often enough.
Now he has building problems so the shrubs right by the house must be cleared.
Hopefully we will have enough dry weather to do more clearing on Wednesday.

Tour of Britain

Excuse the jumbled images... the tablet isn't being 100% cooperative at the moment!! I will be glad to get back to a laptop in a fortnight!!
We went out to the top of Lamdoughty Hill to watch the race at one of the King of the Mountains sprints..stage one was from Glasgow to Kirkcudbright.  For a change it was glorious weather!!
Talking to a friend in a local cycling club who is a farmer, he said he has never seen sheep so dour and miserable at this time of year..they are so wet!!
We have had a friend over from Fife and took him with us .. normally we would all have gone by bike but he is grounded by an old footballing injury..a knee that occasionally dislocates... It's why he changed sports to cycling, forty years ago.

It's good having friends to stay. A change for him and for us.

Harvest!

Our first runner bean..we haven't had much luck with these this year!

Another cold wet day

And so it carries on...but we have salad from the garden for lunch..with home-made bread and chutney.

Fresh supplies are running low, so we can't put off a shopping trip any longer. Places to be in Ayr, arranging postal votes in case an election arrives when we're away...money to pay into savings ie most of the loose change....and any money spent on lottery tickets, an equal amount goes in the savings....
It will be a small help next time we get to Aotearoa NZ.....

Staying dry

We ventured out for Pirate to get a tooth mended...but apart from that we have stayed indoors out of the cold and wet!
I'm now working on the study.....three empty boxes and a bagful of paper recycling so far. I must really sort all of my printing work..hand printing and printer printing....
I have a bagful of ideas and tryouts for cards and prints, so organising these will be sensible!

Indoors and politics

We are busy cleaning and tidying indoors. Outside it's busy getting wet..showers interspersed with rain..and windy, but nothing to compare to Hurricane Dorian.

I'm not commenting about politics....we feel despair at what is happening. It would be good to join in any of the marches, but Pirate is stressing enough about what is going on as it is. I've had to ration the amount of "news" we hear.
Both "remainers" and "leavers" are aghast at the abuse of the system.

We would emigrate like a shot..but every country has its problems.

The first day of Autumn

We did get out for a bike ride today...and also got soaked with some very hard cold rain, at times even harder hail!
Home again the sun came out, I got several washes on the line, Pirate battled with an ancient mower. Despite having a new belt and spark plug, there is a microswitch malfunction and it is reluctant to start.
Meanwhile I got busy in the kitchen, evicting wasps and making chutney!

It is surprising how ingredients reduce....those three small jars came from a kilo of onions!
Just to prove that this is the first day of Autumn....

The first fungus in the lawn.