24.8.11

preparations for winter



We have rearranged our house in readiness for winter - sofas are now both in the room with the stove, dining table and pretending to sit round it and have meaningful discussions banished to front of house.  We are ready.  We are eating tea sitting on the floor waiting for the temperature to drop...

Hopefully we will have a couple of weeks to wait, as we are still picking and digging at the allotment and the elderberries and tomatoes are nearly ripe and we've got a whole list of things we haven't yet done this summer but will be cramming into the next two weeks, but then...

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Have just posted about the fact that
we got a delivery of wood for our wood burner today. Got strangely excited about the idea of lighting it. Perhaps not for a couple of weeks...

Unknown said...

You will have to make room for us... we'll be sleeping in front of your burner come winter! xx

Melanie Wickham said...

Karen, I'm sure if you opened all the windows it would be cool enough to light the fire...

Lou, come round, bring your knitting...

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