September

 

Yet another quiet month!

We had two trips to Calke Abbey - first to take grandson to the Summer of Play; second a few days later to see the gardens.

My younger daughter and her boyfriend came to visit and took us on a shopping expedition to Leicester's Golden Mile in search of clothes to wear at a Bengali festival and I borrowed one of her saris to try on.. I later discovered that I'm not wearing it properly so please don't copy me.

It was time to start and explore wedding fairs ahead of my younger daughter's engagement. I was amazed at some of the things considered necessary - a magician, a sweet trolley and crisp wall! I feel thing have changed a lot since my wedding, when a standard church service followed by a reception in the church hall or at a local pub was considered the height of style. A wedding cake made and decorated by a relative would not be acceptable now!.

It's a good opportunity though to look round halls and hotels not normally open to non-residents. 

Otherwise it was a quiet, but somewhat productive month - time to pick apples, quinces, and beans, and to preserve some of my elder daughter's crab apples in a spicy sweet and sour syrup (very good with sausage rolls or pork pies, in my opinion)

And to find an unusual stray at the back of the garden - a passionflower which has presumably grown under the back fence and begun to climb on our side. It's a stunning flower, and there's an outside chance that there may be fruit.