A bit of Halloween decoration.

I just thought it was quite cute, with Esme our black cat, two pumpkins and two little floating ghosts.

 :D

Another beautiful ninety minute dog walk.

Both dogs behaved incredibly well today. :) 

Trouble wants my food.

It certainly is autumn.

I got the dogs walked for an hour and a half before I had to leave for work. The air is so rich and autumnal. 

I love this time of year. You can see just how many leaves had fallen from this tree. It made a carpet!

It felt very odd walking through it. Both of the dogs found it a bit strange too. 

I'd like to say this was troubs after the walk  today but I can't. This was troubs last night. When we got back from the walk an hour before I had to leave the house, I had to bath her. She had coated herself with poo. :/ After that I had to have a shower too, she was that gross. I almost missed my bus. D: 

We had a very busy day.

We knocked down the shed and removed all of the old dustbins and rubbish that the old owner of the house left in the corner. We spent over half an hour digging up panes of glass, We've filled a wheelbarrow to the brim with smashed glass.

we got out everything we could see and re-covered the area with soil and then wood and brick. We aren't taking any chances.

You can see just how much space they have now. :) 

We moved as much of last years compost as we could manage. Six wheelbarrow loads, all of which went onto the borders. We covered about two thirds of the border with two inches of really good compost so I'm quite pleased. :) 

All in all we've had a very productive day.

Breakfast!

I made a really lovely breakfast this morning, it sorted out the weird craving I had, and it used up some of the chicken eggs that we have lots of.

I had a craving for potato this morning. Potato, for breakfast?

I fixed the weird craving by peeling some really thin sweet potato slithers, chopping shallots, yellow peppers and slithers of carrot. I added three eggs, herbs, salt, pepper and a tiny bit of cheese. Behold I had made-uff an omelette. A 475 calorie omelette which is only marginally more calories than a 90 gram bowl of Alpen with a cup of milk.

It was soooo good and MASSIVE!

Not one squash!

I didn't manage to get one winter squash this year!

I know I haven't written anything in a while, I've been really struggling with my energy and depression  probably for the last month.

 Anyway.

Troubs has hurt herself somehow. Not sure how she did it but its pretty nasty, I think it's getting better now though.

Poor girl.

We've started a huge effort to get the front garden sorted. My boyfriend, his mum and I all had a good hour of attacking the weeds and plants that we want to clear.

We still need to dig it over and remove everything. But we cut it all back and it was really quite high and messy, not to mention all of the sweet wrappers from every passerby ever! :(  
We will improve the soil and cover it all over with weed suppressant plastic, ready to plant it all up in the spring. I'll be putting foxgloves, harts tongue fern, Japanese painted ferns and some sweet cicely in to fill the whole area. I'm not sure about the foxgloves, I might have to swap them out later but I'll only know by trying. One day we'll replace the fence too. So much to do, so little money. :P

Dog walk through the woods.

House sparrows.

harvesting and pizza!

This is about 90 % of my tomatoes. I would have picked them all but I saw a spider that looked something like a false widow so I left them for another day. They are SOOO tiny.

I got beans, patty pan and courgettes :)

I roasted all of my tomatoes with my homegrown garlic and homegrown thyme. :)

I spent over an hour peeling all of the tiny tomatoes, blitzed it up and made pizza sauce for my homemade pizza bases. This is my friends pizza right here. Impressive isn't it? :D

This one is mine. Lots of courgette, patty pan, sausage, pepperoni, salami, sweetcorn and loads of cheese. It was so good! Fed me for two days. My friend came over to help me plan building a cob shed. Unfortunately we just got drunk and ate pizza so she'll have to come over again so that we can try again. :)