Hellebores in flower.
Currently reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚Slowly working my way through this book. I’ve reached the start of the fourth week of meditations. I allowed myself to be diverted to read Time Surfing that was mentioned in the meditation for day eleven. I’m enjoying it. Recommended.
Finished reading: Time Surfing by Paul Loomans 📚which I got after it was mentioned in Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. An interesting read which provides a template for daily life. I found it more or less reflected much that I’ve grown to believe over the past 50 years or so. Definitely one that I recommend, especially the part on how to deal with interruptions or “drop ins” as Loomans calls them.
Starlings clearing the bird tables. They had left within a couple of minutes.
Test post from Drafts
Afternoon sun making the garden glow.
Afternoon sun and bumblebee on the mahonia.
Autumn colour at Wakehurst Place, which is the country home of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and its Millennium Seed Bank. Had a walk around in pleasant company. 🙂
Autumn colour at Wakehurst Place, which is the country home of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and its Millennium Seed Bank. Had a walk around in pleasant company. 🙂
Currently reading: Writers and Their Notebooks by Diana M. Raab 📚I’m drawn to yet another book about the use of notebooks. This is a collection of essays by writers on their use of notebooks.
At the end of chapter one in Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman the message I’m taking away is “Good enough is perfectly acceptable”. 😂
Currently reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚Just arrived and I’m reading the prologue. Question I’m asking myself is: do I read it over a couple of days, or do as is suggested and take four weeks? I’ll find out tomorrow when I start reading chapter 1 and maybe chapter two, etc.
Penshurst Place colours
Early morning in the garden
Bother! I’d intended to take some photos of Standen House kitchen garden where I have spent the day weeding the beds. Meeting other volunteers and chatting drove the idea from my mind. Maybe next time…
Finished reading: This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear 📚If you’ve read her Maisie Dobbs books, you’ll see where some of the stories came from. An enjoyable and at times emotional read.
Dahlia still in flower this late in October. Is this usual? It’s my first time growing dahlias and I have no idea what to expect. These were grown from seed: Bishop’s Children.
Went out earlier to clear the leaves from the drive. I even did the neighbour’s drive too.
A couple of hours later and there’s another fine layer of leaves on the drive. Ho-hum! Glad I have a leaf blower and can make leaf mould to use in the garden in a couple of years 😎
Finished reading: Principles for Newsletters by Cj Chilvers 📚A short and interesting read. Lots to ponder. I’ll no doubt be returning to it for more ideas.
Recovering from a day spent in the Kitchen Garden at Standen House and Gardens, a National Trust property, near East Grinstead, Sussex.
Playing with my new iPad Air with the keyboard and pencil pro. After an initial set up hitch, and waiting for Notes to sync, I’m impressed with the set up. The typing experience is probably better than on the keyboard for the iPad Pro I have for work.
Seems to me that the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an oxymoron. AI is definitely artificial, but is it intelligent?
Currently reading: Principles for Newsletters by Cj Chilvers 📚got this this morning and I’m more than half-way through. Easy read and one that anyone writing or thinking of writing one might find a useful idea in. 😎
Did some tidying up in the back garden. Mostly removing the old leaves from plants and I discovered where the slugs are/were hiding. This one was attempting to escape:
Currently reading: The Siege by Ben Macintyre 📚in Audible.