Another week in lockdown, November style. It's been bleak through the weekdays with no opportunity to wander after work; sealed in by the darkness. After a wet and miserable weekend another week of staying in feels a bit rubbish but there we go. 

Take care,

 

Good luck everyone, it's Friday the thirteenth and judging how badly the average days have gone in 2020 it's not boding well. 















Take care,

Sophie

Back to a bit of autumn colour on the blog today. It won't last forever so I'm making the most of it while it lasts. 
This week feels like it is lasting a lifetime. For some reason it's dragging it's feet and I'm not feeling it as much as I expected. 
Horse chestnut leaves remind me of kippers when they turn; that shape of the leaf and the fading colours. Those kipper smokehouses with the fishes all hanging up on hooks. 

Cute white mushrooms






Tiny pops of blue still showing up thanks to speedwell. 
I loved how the leaves faded out from green to yellow on the tops of the branches.

Little mushroom popping up. 


These jelly like fungi ought to be easy to identify yet my book doesn't help at all. 


Take care,

 

Amazingly, I wore this back in August on a lousy grey day when jeans and a jacket were called for. I felt ok, it's nice to throw on bootcut jeans like it's 2002 before skinny jeans took over. It's not often I'm seen in stripes, come to think of it. There's been a lot of higgledy-piggledy weather lately. Last week we had an overnight high of 14 then the next night -1. What is going on? I was out in my t-shirt yesterday and although I was busy, the sun felt HOT. Despite having considered going in for an early Christmas, so far all we've popped on are a couple of tunes. It hasn't felt that cold yet. I'll get round to feeling festive when the weather stops outdoor play.

The empty August landscape doesn't look that dissimilar to that of mid November. 

Take care,