+++ Whoops! Here comes the cheese! +++

Cherryfudge

I think the long hot, dry spell set the trees back: a lot of chestnut trees here have blotchy leaves and our birch is shedding bright yellow leaves though most of the foliage is okay. I had some photos from a few years ago come up on my phone - this time of year. What really struck me was that the corn fields were green, whereas now they're absolutely ready for harvest.

We also have autumn's spiders a good few weeks early!

redofromstart

Thank you for your kind comments everyone, and yes a bit of a low run.  Looking at the stages of grief I think I veer between depression and acceptance now, with the odd bout of anger at life in general, and will no doubt continue to do so for some time yet. 

Trying to use up stuff and made this nice tea loaf with some slightly OOD dried fruit.  It turned out well, and will be frozen in slices so I don't slip into eating cake for every meal for three days. 

rtandon27

Yum - that recipe looks good - think I'll bookmark it for those chilly autumnal days that I'm not quite ready to accept are here - maybe in a month or so?

There is a place in everyone's life for a few days of dawn to dusk cake!  Eventually your body will say enough and ask for some veg!

Watty1

That looks really nice, have printed it out as I do have quite a bit of stuff to use up that might work in something like that. 

redofromstart

As predicted I have mostly eaten cake. My stomach is most unhappy as a result so I went food shopping this morning. I really want some quiche (thanks to @debtfreewannabe321 mentioning it in her food plans) but completely forgot that, eggs or butter.

The food shop is close to my favourite garden centre so I accidentally went there as well. Invested £4.50 in a nice fluffy door stop for the spare bedroom so I can stop jumping out of my skin every time the door slams shut. I could, of course, have simply shut the window, but the tiny tabby is a Ninja cat who likes to enter the building via climbing a tree to the roof, scuttling along the guttering and then drop in through that window. She sometimes brings presents that way, but sadly never a nice tray of chocolate.

I also bought a good sized half price Vinca, 'Verino' to join my Vinca collection in the shade border. They had several forms that I don't have also reduced but I resisted temptation and reminded myself that it is just 'stamp collecting' when there are such subtle differences.  

Cherryfudge

That cat needs more training. Otherwise a productive day: vinca acquired, cake temptation reduced. Are you going to make another foray past the garden centre for eggs and butter?