Well this has been a funny old week. Lots of rain, some things to be sorted that I really didn't want to, lots of dreadful things in the news, lots of rain and lots of dark, gloomy days. You know me with dark, gloomy days and I'm the same with dark, gloomy issues. So my mood took a sizeable dip and I had to step back from social media and news stories because I couldn't cope. I needed head reset time, this usually involves walks in nature but the rain just didn't stop this week so indoors it was.
I did manage one walk in the rain - to the library, books can be a good mood lifter I find, and then I walked on to pick up some craft things to make an autumn garland to brighten the room. Some fairy lights were added and that's it at the top of this blog. A little brightness to lift dark days.
As for this week in nature, well it wasn't really gardening weather so it was a case of watching through the window, lots of birds coming and going, including two pesky magpies who have been coming to steal Mrs Tufty's nuts. Mrs Tufty just stares at me through the window plaintively in the hope of a refill.
At my cousin's the wily old fox was waiting to greet me again.
I am always delighted to see just one but she tells me there are four or five out most nights, waiting for the neighbours to feed them.
Garden plan this coming week is 1) to buy a squirrel feeder to keep the magpies away from the monkey nuts, 2) to plant those autumn bulbs 3) to bring indoors the rest of the tomatoes to ripen 4) mow the lawns and tidy.
So how about cooking and baking this week? Well, I just managed to bake another sourdough loaf and then a wholemeal loaf in the breadmaker, no cakes I'm afraid. I made a new soup - cauliflower and walnut, which was tasty and much needed on a chilly day. I tried a new recipe for kimchi tacos too.
They were quite a hit and I will try them again.
The plan for next week is to bake another sourdough loaf, some focaccia and some apple flapjacks. I hope to try out a new soup and a new pasta dish too. I'll let you know how they go.
Book news is that I finished Ian Rankin's The Falls which was just super. I do love his Rebus books though I rarely get close to solving them till near the end. This one was really meaty with some historical references that set me off on some of my own research. I have now started Joanne Harris's Chocolat. It seems to have been in my TBR pile forever, I can't believe that it has taken me this long to begin it. I am really enjoying it though.
As Saturday's planned outing was washed out by torrential rain we visited the Walker Art Gallery to see the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition. It is free to visit and is so worth it, some amazing artworks on display. A wonderful way to spend a rainy day. We loved it.
My SAD lamp has been much needed this week and I frequently forgot to use it. Astronomical autumn begins tomorrow and there will be darker and more gloomy days ahead so I need to prepare for them and use it regularly. I know I'm not fun to be around when my SAD kicks in so I need to be ahead with my absorption of light.
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