Red leaves

Today I noticed in the cherry tree several clusters of red leaves among the summery green ones and I thought of Autumn. The sun was shining weakly, the blushed leaves stood out against a pewter sky and we waited for the rain, again.

Exactly half the year is over, so WordPress tells me and then it asks me to list 10 things I’d like to do before it’s over. Is that right? I mean it is the 7th month, not the sixth….

Over to you…..while I think about it

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17 thoughts on “Red leaves”

  2. Mine is pretty obvious…something along the lines of feeling the fear and doing it anway.

  3. But then again…’O time, thou must untangle this, not I. / It is too hard a knot for me t’untie” …
    Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

  4. I can’t think of anything in particular I’d like to do before Christmas, but then things just happen. The other night daughter rang to say that our joint birthday present, self and husband, was to be a long weekend with the entire family in a cottage in Suffolk. Enough bedrooms, log fires, play area for granddaughter, hot tub, etc. Now I can’t think of anything I’d like more.

  5. I plan to go to my favourite mountain lake, the California Railway Museum, go on a short road trip with a friend of mine, eat a lot of cheese, and then go to Germany for New Year. I will also buy aeroplane tickets to go to Korea and Japan in March to visit some old friends.

  6. Claire – go with Susan Jeffers – that’s how I cured my fear of flying, many years ago. 🙂

  7. My God! Is it that time already? I have to eat half a freezer of boar and then go and hunt down several warm. meaty things to keep me going through the winter.

    OZ

  8. 1. Have a proper pedicure
    2. Get a short story published
    3. Get new glasses
    4. Install a water feature
    5. Read a few more books (holidays coming 🙂 )
    6. Sort out the veg patch
    7. Make some jam
    8. Tidy the office
    9. Get a little fitter again… and
    10. regain a waist.

  10. Sheona, that sounds wonderful!
    Christopher, you seem to have it sussed.
    OZ, hunting not my scene, but a freezer full of meat sounds good!

  11. Pseu – If you want a marinated rack of ribs on the barbie in January, then I’m your wolf. Just don’t be too fussy about the origins of same.

    OZ

  12. 210 days down….156 to go!

    10 things to do? Crikey – one would be an achievement!

    Erm….

    1) Learn how to cook a decent paella
    2) Get the handicap down to 9
    3) Do my xmas shopping in November
    4) Loose 2 stone
    5) Put up the shelves in the spare room
    6) struggling now…that’ll do!

  16. Pseu’s Paella (4)
    • Drizzle pan with olive oil and stir fry garlic and onions until soft
    • Then add chicken sliced quite thinly until coloured all over. (usually a four pack of chicken breast)
    • Add rice and stir in (in our house in bigger volumes than suggested ‘per person’ on the side of the packet, I usually do 100g per person)
    • Then add the amount of seasoned stock it says on the packet in the right ratio. Stock: I usually crush a few strands of saffron and stir these into the stock before using, plus a quarter spoon of turmeric. (Make 1.5 litres of stock , then towards the end of cooking time judge if you need a little more fluid and add water)
    • Add few sliced Pepperdew, mild sweet peppers (available in a jar from Waitrose etc) and / or a few chopped fresh tomatoes.
    • Keep stirring as it cooks
    • I usually add frozen peas and a tin of sweetcorn towards the end, when nearly all the stock has been absorbed
    • Add the defrosted seafood at the end and heat through (I buy the frozen glazed prawns)

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