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24 September 2025

Late September


Yesterday, for the first time this season, I switched on the heating.  I've now got a winter jacket in the car.  The heated throw is at the ready by my chair.   Winter is definitely on its way.

The freezer is filling with soups: twenty five packs at the last count.  I've been looking out recipes for casseroles to bulk cook and freeze.  Jacket potatoes are sounding lovely!

I have, at last, started making my Christmas cards.  I've got all the ingredients to start on the first few Christmas puds. (The current list is for sixteen puddings as I give them as presents.)   I've decided what I want to sew for other presents.

I'm listening to Kari Leibowitz: How to Winter: Harnessing Your Mindset to Thrive in Cold, Dark Or Difficult Times hoping that I can be a little more positive about winter than I have in recent years.

But for the moment it is autumn and I might kick a few leaves!  Or ride my trundle truck through puddles.  Or do anything else childish I can think of.  

6 comments:

  1. I recall kicking autumn leaves as I walked to school in Wisconsin. There are lots of maple trees in Wisconsin and they make a nice crisp sound as one walks through them.

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    1. It's even better when I ride a trundle truck through them. But sometimes they jam the wheels.

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  2. It must be autumn. Having porridge for breakfast!

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  3. I'm having porridge for breakfast as well, heating not on yet, this week we have sunny cold days, the leaves are not dropping here yet!

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    1. You are a little further south - maybe it's a little warmer with you.

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