Thursday 11th September - it's officially Autumn

How do I know? 

I'm wearing woolly socks for the first time in months

These are the first socks I ever made. They took me ages, throughmost of 2021 and 2022. I ended up knitting most of them both twice over, as halfway up the leg of the second sock I realised I'd made a fundamental mistake in the mystical process of Turning The Heel. I now use a pattern which uses a simple afterthought heel which is basically the same as the toe, and I am NEVER going to knit ribbed socks EVER again. One lives and learns... let the yarn to the pattern making is my view!

In the garden

I sowed rainbow chard, pak choi and spinach at the beginning of the month and have deep rewarded by sweet little seedlings 

It's interesting to see how different they are. I'm slowly moving my vegetable garden to up near the house. It's all in a collection of large planters. I'll have to somehow make them more decorative if they are going to be where we sit out in dry weather. The advantage is that I can reach the plants more easily; currently I have to switch to an oxygen cylinder to get gown to the veg patch which is often just one layer of effort too much to look after them properly. 

Malapropisms 

One of my aunts always called the alphabet the 'A B I' instead of 'A B C'.

I can't remember when we started calling them the 'destructions' instead of the 'instructions'. It became very relevant once flat pack furniture became ubiquitous!