Thanks for the link (it did work). I am really enjoying the AMC version of my favourite series of books. I am glad they haven't gone for a PG retelling. The season 3 trailer makes my mouth water for its showing, hopefully next year.
I agree that autumn is here already: the pink-footed geese have begun to arrive from Iceland and Greenland in their honking skeins across the sky; the pond fish are reluctant to feed because the water temperature is dropping from the not-so-high temperature that this year's 'summer' delivered; most of the garden flowers and shrubs are bearing seed-heads or berries or hips; spiders that don't spin the beautiful orb-webs are creeping indoors and leaves are beginning to look pale. It puts me in mind of a beautiful hymn that we used to sing at the primary school where I worked for 35 years (find it here)
Yesterday, I paid host to three of my elderly relatives (and I'm 71!) and an hour or two was spent reminiscing over a lovely pub lunch. When we returned to my house, cleaned for the event as if it were Spring not Autumn, haha, we examined the family tree online and I gave them their pedigrees that I'd drawn out beforehand. We promised to see each other again soon...but who knows, given they are in their 80s. Hope springs eternal, as they say:)
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Date: Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 01:06 pm (UTC)I agree that autumn is here already: the pink-footed geese have begun to arrive from Iceland and Greenland in their honking skeins across the sky; the pond fish are reluctant to feed because the water temperature is dropping from the not-so-high temperature that this year's 'summer' delivered; most of the garden flowers and shrubs are bearing seed-heads or berries or hips; spiders that don't spin the beautiful orb-webs are creeping indoors and leaves are beginning to look pale. It puts me in mind of a beautiful hymn that we used to sing at the primary school where I worked for 35 years (find it here)
Yesterday, I paid host to three of my elderly relatives (and I'm 71!) and an hour or two was spent reminiscing over a lovely pub lunch. When we returned to my house, cleaned for the event as if it were Spring not Autumn, haha, we examined the family tree online and I gave them their pedigrees that I'd drawn out beforehand. We promised to see each other again soon...but who knows, given they are in their 80s. Hope springs eternal, as they say:)
The gas fire goes on for a few hours in the evening now. Hallowe'en is coming, ha ha ha! Sorry, another school favourite :D