Because it’s not the big goals and successes in life that bring true happiness, but the little joys that you choose to notice each day.
Made delicious, nutritious chicken stock. I simmer a chicken carcass 5 hours or so with onions, carrots, celery, two bay leaves, several peppercorns, a dash of vinegar and a tablespoon celtic salt.
Filled up my freezer-safe Ball jars and re’stock’ed the freezer with it!
And made some into warming chicken noodle soup on a cold rainy night.
Pretty cyclamen hederifolium grow along the banks of a local footpath. I always wonder if they’re wild, or escapees from the other side of the fence.
I love this view.
The colours!
It’s scented candle season.
Loving this fig jam from M&S, with brie.
Sweet chestnuts popping out of their shells. They look a bit small – the squirrels might go hungry this year!
Husband went away for a couple of nights, and brought me back a bloodstone and an emerald. My gemstone collection is really getting going again!
Morning.
Beautiful Virginia creeper showing off her autumn garb in a client’s garden.
Watched a honeybee all over the Michaelmas daisies.
Tiny miracles. Fungi blow my mind. (Have you seen Fantastic Fungi on Netflix?)
In fact it was a good week for fungi…
The colour of these Kaffir lillies is almost unreal!
A great big spotty frog watched me weeding.
Did some tidying up in the loft, and found the rest of my childhood rock collection – mostly stuff I found on beaches and hills, including a bunch of fossils and some shells. Had so much fun looking at it all!
The saffron crocuses in my garden have started flowering! Their red stamens look so striking it’s always a shame to harvest them, but harvest them I shall.
