Lovely Sunday Morning

It's a beautiful day, sunny with a light, cooling breeze.

I was tying up tomatoes before breakfast. A nice job - easy, not too long, with a feeling of a job well done at the end of it.

I then picked autumn raspberries which I had with my breakfast sitting in a deck chair in the garden.

Saw what I think is a Gatekeeper butterfly, which I have never seen in the garden before.

Then off on my bike and picked blackberries, and it is still only 10.30 with the rest of the day to enjoy!

Autumn autumn raspberries

The autumn crop off my autumn raspberries are just producing.

I had a large handful on my breakfast cereal this morning. 

Will have to fertilise them well next spring, having had two crops of them this year.

raspberries for breakfast

I had a handful of autumn raspberries with my breakfast cereal this morning!

This is from the late canes from last year which I kept specially for an early harvest.

My thorough watering session followed by a good dose of rain has made them a decent size.

The loganberries and strawberries are nowhere near ready, though traditionally as a child we always had strawberries from the garden for my grandmother's birthday - 13 June.

Sewing machine for curtain linings

I haven't had a working sewing machine for years, but I have two thermal curtain linings to turn in at the sides, hem, and sewing tape onto which would take ages and ages of TV-watching to get sewn. I also need to clear up. I have a meeting in the dining room on 4 June, the boiler being replaced in the bedroom on 7 & 8 June, and the wood burning stove being checked and the chimney swept in the sitting room on the 7 June. Two curtains and two thermal linings are taking a lot of room on the spare room bed which I need for stuff from the bedroom so the plumber can move!

So today I bought a small (fuchsia-coloured!) sewing machine for £59 from John Lewis.

I only trimmed the late summer canes of the autumn raspberries to get an early crop, and picked my first this morning!

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