On Sunday morning we usually go to the car boot, but not this week. We fancied a change, our Sunday morning trip to the car boot was becoming a bit of a routine and I hate routine. Plus last week had been a bit of a disappointment as we came away empty handed - both of us!
So instead we got up made bacon sandwiches using our own home-baked bread, then with full tummies we set off by foot for a little stroll around our neck of the wood. Well actually no woods at all, but plenty of trees, fields, hedgerows, railway line, a ford, and a river. We completed a big circuit chatting all the way, a lovely start to Sunday, a great way to spend time together, and discover a bit more of where we live.
It's funny when we lived in London we often went for lovely walks over the weekends and I guess we thought moving to the countryside we'd do more walking. Instead we normally find ourselves getting on with things; gardening, DIY - that sort of thing which of course we still found time for when we got back!
I was reading Celia's blog last night, she'd just posted a wonderful posy of flowers picked from her garden. I thought about our garden and was sure I wouldn't be able to find enough to make a posy of my own. This morning I proved myself wrong, it didn't take me long to find this little bunch. When there is so little in flower in the garden (like now) I worry about robbing it and leaving nothing behind for the garden itself, but even being selective and only taking a little here and there I did OK - don't you think?
I can't get used to these early nights, I mean it getting dark in the afternoon! Sometimes I look up and it's dark already. Today I was lucky enough to catch the sun just as it was slipping away.
