Saturday, 4 October 2025

And Into October

No sooner had I written about the named storms that might arrive this year and Storm Amy blew into Northern Ireland, Scotland and Northern England, forecast to bring rain and strong winds yesterday and today. As usual not so bad here in Suffolk, just a very, very wet Friday, with rain all day. I didn't even step outside the door .
Instead I got the first jigsaw out of the cupboard and got started on the edges.




I've added the pumpkins onto the top of the bookshelves for October. The white one is a new find - car boot sale of course. It should light up but the light won't stay on but as it was only 50p it doesn't really matter.




At last Saturdays car boot sale  I picked up the box to turn over to see what 'gifts' (junk!) were included inside the Christmas Crackers. The crackers themselves weren't very appealing. But when the lady said 20p -  they had to be bought!



I think it will be me providing the crackers for all our family get togethers this Christmas as there are some previous boot sale finds in the cupboard already. 

Finally had part one of the shingles vaccination and I must make a note in the new diary to organise part two for next April as the health centre can't make appointments that far ahead. 

The garden waste bin had settled so I was able to squash in all the dead climbing bean haulm and get the canes into the greenhouse before we get wet weather. I'm drying some of the pods for the seeds, I don't know what variety they were as the plants came from a boot-sale after my failed sowing, but they were really good and didn't get tough at all. 
The bin gets emptied on Monday and then I start  filling it all over again - too much Buddleia!

Have a good weekend - stay safe if you are up north in the rough weather. There are garage/yard sales in a nearby village here to look round - after the boot sale of course and if it stops raining.

Back Monday







33 comments:

  1. Those mushrooms are lovely. Are they wooden?

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    1. Yes the mushrooms are wood, the little clump was from a boot sale and the two others are turned wood -a gift from a penfriend - all from several years ago now

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  2. Wet and windy here. Hope that doesnt affect your local sales too badly

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    1. What a change of weather - so cold when I was out this morning

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  3. Your autumnscape looks lovely. It's going to be just the sort of weekend for starting a jigsaw puzzle.
    I'm doing an arrangement in the church for Harvest Festival tomorrow, I'm no great shakes at arranging but I love working with autumn colours and we've grown some nice little decorative squash I can add in. Masses of squash for eating too, it's been a bumper year.
    Enjoy your weekend
    Penny

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    1. Hope your church looks wonderful for the Harvest Festival - good luck with your arrangement

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  4. Habitat crackers? They might have decent innards!

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    1. No, they are typical rubbish - plastic moustache!

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  5. I love the pumpkins. Here in Devon the wind gusts are so extreme at times I don't know how the poor little birds are hanging onto the feeders, the feeders are swinging like a scary birdy fair ride!
    Alison in Devon x

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    1. The birds are back and forwards to my feeders - they need plenty of food in this weather

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  6. I'm glad you seem to have missed the worst of the storm.

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    1. We are often lucky, being on the east when most bad weather comes in across the Atlantic

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  7. Your pumpkins look lovely on the shelves, very seasonal. It's been a very wild night here 'up North', but we survived relatively unscathed. I doubt we will be having any local car boot sales this weekend though.

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    1. I got the day wrong for the yard sales, drove round an estate and thought it odd there was no one out - looked at poster - oh SUNDAY 5th!

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  8. the wrath of Amy has wrecked havoc here! much further south than originally expected.

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    1. Just wet, chilly and bit windy here - no awful storms - hope you don't lose electric

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  9. I always enjoy your seasonal displays, Sue.

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    1. It's good to have a change round - means they don't collect dust and I don't get fed up with them

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  10. You know, I thought of you. I bought a set of very heavy Snowball votive candle holders. It was a set of 8, a larger Snowball for the center. They worked out to $1 each. I could just envision them at my windows. I stood there thinking, 'what would Sue do?' And then they came home with me.

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    1. Oh dear - didn't know I was a bad influence!!

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    2. Inspiration, more like. I have my first seasonal display!

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  11. Rain, wind and cold would keep me inside too. Amy seems to hit some locations harder than others.
    Your October display looks great.

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    1. The Hebrides off the west of the Scottish coast had the worst of it, we are lucky here in the sheltered East

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  12. Nice items for October that you can see at your house. We did get some rain this week which was good to have again. There was fog Friday morning but then it got a bit warmer. Tis the season for different weather. I am glad we have heat and air conditioning! Enjoy your weekend!

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    1. I like the new pumpkin and now I'm not liking the orange one!

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  13. Our garden waste bin gets collected fortnightly in a Tuesday. Last Tuesday I immediately filled it to the brim again. Full of Escalonia cuttings, the bushes needed cutting back and thinning out. I am so pleased when the bin is emptied, even though we obviously have to pay. Carole R.

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    1. I'm glad of the bin as I'd never be able to cope with the amount of stuff I have to cut back.

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  14. Hello. I came across your old blog and have been loving it. And wondering where your small holding was as I recently moved to East Suffolk. What a delight to discover that you have this blog and are still blogging.

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  15. I just cut some of our buddleia back yesterday. We had crazy wind on Saturday but today is much calmer. You are the master of the boot sale! Glad you could make use of those Christmas crackers.

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  16. I don't have the patience for jigsaws. Never have unless doing with someone else.

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  17. Hello! Glad you missed the storm! I imagine the jigsaw puzzle was a cozy way to pass the time indoors. Have a nice week ahead!

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