First thing this morning the sun came out and lit up the trees around our garden;
Berries on the neighbour's yew tree
Birch trees over towards the stream
That was more or less all the sun for the day, but it was enough to make me smile.
We took one of our portable oxygen machines, the Philips, to the workshop that services them. We'll take the other one, the Inogen, over in a week or so now that we know that they service that make as well. It's a fair drive; I was the human satnav for the journey there, but knitted half the left front of my cardigan on the way back.
They have a metal plaque hanging up;
I just had to have a photograph of it!
Foolishly, I glanced inside this book to read 'just a little bit'.
Haha! Just going to take a quick look in the book is like me taking a quick look in a thrift store. I like that sign!
ReplyDeleteThere are days when a stress relief kit is definitely needed
DeleteJust a quick look is like 'I'll just have two squares of chocolate'
DeleteYup, enough to choose between 'no thanks' and 'let me scoff the lot'!
DeleteI am NOT looking. I have three books in my to-be-read stack!
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DeleteI'll be interested to hear your opinion of this book.
ReplyDeleteThe stress reduction kit looks useful and would be well used in most homes.
I'll post later about the book... I've now got to source a copy of Shirley Hughes 'Dogger' and Judith Kerr 'Mog in the Garden'!
DeleteI’m pretty sure I have both of those - but I’m not close enough to lend them.
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DeleteOne of my favourite books is "Moonfleet":
ReplyDeleteNow, my favourite seat in the churchyard was the flat top of a raised stone tomb .... Anyone sitting on the grave-top was snug from the weather, and possessed a fine prospect over the sea. On the other three sides, the yews grew close and thick, embowering the tomb like the high back of a fireside chair; and many times in autumn I have seen the stone slab crimson with the fallen waxy berries, and taken some home to my aunt, who like to taste them with a glass of sloe-gin after her Sunday dinner. (Chapter 3)
I've read that if one removes the seeds, the berries may be sucked or eaten, but I don't think I'm brave enough to try.
Nettie
My father's Nanny, back at the beginning of the 1930s when he was younger than 7, taught her charges to eat the yew Berries, spitting out the pips... wow! Had she no sense at all??? He lived to 96, somehow...
DeleteI have a pile of books to read, a really tall pile but keep on getting distracted with books I see on line, in our local book shop or charity shops! Then of course my like grows. Oh dear. The autumn colour this year is spectacular. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteBooks, such a temptation! We were out and about yesterday, also today. The leaves are changing every day
DeleteLovely photos. The light looks really lovely.
ReplyDeleteI find myself reading a lot when I'm away or travelling. It makes the time go faster and there is nothing like escaping reality for a while
Someone said a book is a portal to another place, or something like that.
DeleteOooh, that book looks goooooood! I would like to read that! I am reading a lovely children's book at the moment which is a sort of epic spin on the aftermath of the Pied Piper of Hamelyn and it has some lovely musical details in the first book, this one not so much but it is so clever! I do love reading and I pity those that don't have that joy and ability to be captivated like us. Aren't we the lucky ones!
ReplyDeleteI am really enjoying Bookworm. She gives a fair bit of background too.
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