Thanks to everybody for feedback yesterday and apologies for not replying or commenting wherever both.
What a distinction every week makes to life when the chilly wind went away from us within the East final weekend and we had every week of sunshine and heat as an alternative. The world out of the blue appears a greater place! Though wanting on the forecast for subsequent week appears we will probably be cloudy….what a disgrace ….maybe they’re fallacious…….though we do want rain.
Yesterday, vastly excited, I rushed in for my digital camera to attempt for a photograph of this…….
A Hummingbird Hawkmoth. Solely my second ever sighting. I took eight images however this was the one one giving any kind of thought of why I used to be so excited to get a photograph.
| Summer time customer, breeding repeatedly within the UK however not really easy to identify and really laborious to {photograph}. |
It was a ‘bit’ heat on the train group – goodness is aware of what it will have been like if our group had been working throughout final summers further sizzling warmth wave – might need been a bit a lot even for our most energetic 80 12 months olds! I detoured on my approach residence to steal a couple of strawberries from BiL’s backyard – I did have permission and there have been plenty- I will be again for extra quickly as he tends to go away them too lengthy.
This week I began shredding my approach by all our previous tax self-assessment stuff from the smallholding and campsite. By no means had an electrical shredder earlier than – what enjoyable it’s! Years in the past I owned a small handbook shredder however mucked it up shredding some foiled paper to make shred for the Christmas hampers. On the smallholding with two fires to gentle indoors and Col’s love of bonfires it was straightforward to burn undesirable paperwork. Not doable right here in a village.
As a substitute of galivanting round this week I have been at residence extra (primarily as a result of son borrowed the automotive for 2 days). Had time to make tomato and herb rolls, orange and ginger marmalade, peanut biscuits plus cheese straws to swap for the strawberries from BiL. And to stitch badges on Youngest Granddaughters Rainbows zip hoodie (Rainbows are the 4-7 12 months previous model of Brownies and Guides).
The tomatoes have been tied up and that is my first cucumber from the greenhouse.
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| Orange and ginger marmalade made with a tin of the ready oranges plus some finely chopped items of stem ginger-in-syrup and a few floor ginger. |
And the plea……………
A number of bloggers have my weblog of their studying listing on the facet of the weblog – thanks everybody. However some are nonetheless down as “The Cottage on the Finish of A Lane” and it is greater than 2 years since I moved. If you happen to nonetheless have this, please – when you may have a spare minute – might you go into Structure after which the Weblog Checklist gadget edit perform and take out ” The Cottage on the finish of a Lane” after which add it again by copying the title once more and it ought to then come up as ” My Quiet Life in Suffolk”. Many Thanks. But when you do not have time or cannot be bothered or it will not work – no drawback.
Hope you all have a superb weekend
I shall be again Monday
Sue
