November Re-Post # 1

 November isn't a very interesting month for blog post ideas,  which is why posts in 2022 and 2023 were A-Z posts.  To fill up some days for the second half of the month I'll do a few reposts from my 11 years of blogging.

Here's the first  which comes from May 19th 2013 with one of my favourite smallholding photos............

We got the onion weeding finished, some rabbit fencing and enviromesh over 4 beds of various greens, one lot of supports and canes up ready for runner beans.

 Then Him Outside volunteered to climb up on a pile of bricks to take a picture of the whole vegetable garden ( this makes the pylons look even closer than they are which is actually on the adjoining field right at the top of our 4 acre meadow.)
It was so lovely and sunny I wandered around taking more pictures.
The Lilac, coming out at last.

The strawberry bed

Out of the front gate and over the road, this field is planted with beans, but they look a bit sparse.

And then it was lunch time- nearly all home grown today. Lettuce, mixed salad leaves, various coloured radishes and asparagus with a few cubes of cheese and a splodge of mayo being the only things bought.

That's my lot for today, need some reading time. 

Back tomorrow.

And today is the 20th November 2024 and I will be back tomorrow................ yet again!

Sue

PS Hello and welcome to new people who have pressed the Follower button  since Sue in Lancs mentioned Followers on her blog last week. Sue's Followers went up by 80+, mine have only gone up by 4 but I'm not envious!...........Much!!.........

St. Peter's Church, Monks Eleigh

The other church visit from the weekend before last, the church was full of poppies on the Saturday before Remembrance Sunday. 

A walk up to the church through old trees

Quite unusual is the stair turret going up the outside right to the battlements

Some lights came on  automatically as I opened the door but it was a gloomy day, so they didn't have much effect.

Looking down the nave to the chancel, the church is wide with aisles both north and south 

Typical Victorian stained glass 

Some of the poppies for Remembrance Sunday behind the altar

Coat of Arms for Queen Anne above the chancel arch

More poppies over the font and it's cover

This bier for carrying the coffin in the past, not common in churches now but there are several remaining

And even more poppies at the base of the tower

Back Soon

Sue