A slightly condensed version of this kind of post. Autumn was a busy season, here are just a few pictures of what happened… (Note: the last picture is the pumpkin that Fraser carved, as a tribute to Breaking Bad, our Heisenpumpkin. I thought it was amazing! It’s become a Halloween tradition for Fraser to carve an elaborate pumpkin).
November. Well, first of all it would appear that November means I have been so busy that there has been no time for blog posting. This is bad, very bad. I created this blog first and foremost do document memories, now I may look back on 2012 one day and it will seem as if November just disappeared. Very bad. All I can do is try to strive for better. So I felt that perhaps a summarising post would be best, depicting what November means (you know, to jog my memory in years to come). So here we go.
First of all, November means really amazing skies, here are some images I captured one evening whilst out and about. It really was amazing and is not adequately reflected through photographs, but I hope the general idea comes across:
November also means cold afternoons speant in a cozy kitchen trying out baking recipes. Here double chocolate chip, and chocolate orange biscuits.
November means visits from cousins,
and going to Christmas shops with other cousins to buy decorations.
November means drizzly autumn walks amongst the now leafless trees,
with this lovely guy. . .
November means train journeys from east to west.
November means eventually arriving in Dumfries to spend time with family and relax with some food and drinks,
in front of a warm fire.
November means getting some early Christmas shopping in and then going out for some much needed warming up lunch.
Above all, November definitely means enjoying some delicious meals at home as the wind and rain rage outside.
Onwards and upwards (to hopefully a month with more blog posts) to December and the Christmassy madness. It’s beginning to look a lot less like November.
Part 3 of this mini-series:
Some more of beautiful autumn …
My mum came to visit us for two lovely, glorious weeks in October. I miss her so much and I hate that we live so far apart so we made the most of every day we had together.
We were lucky because the weather was great almost every day and we did so much in the two weeks she was here.
It was great spending time with her and catching up. In the gorgeous weather we went on several lovely walks in the autumn sun.
We also went to the zoo and ‘climbed’ Calton Hill for some great views and to find out why Edinburgh is called ‘The Athens of the North’.
It’s always strange when you have visitors that it feels like you see the city you live in, in a completely different light as you take time to look at things that you normally just routinely walk past.
We chatted, laughed, played games, and sadly, after two weeks it was time to say goodbye.
Let me just say, I love my mum and I can’t wait to spend time together again soon!
Life is what happens 