Round Here

Our allotment planet! I do love these ‘little planet’ style photos and I found instructions on this site. I thought you needed a special bit of kit to make these images. You must have seen them before, there are some amazing images on-line. I find them very pleasing 😌

Here are some other things that have pleased me over the last week.

Like that beautiful clear blue sky on Saturday and a robin singing his little heart out in the ash tree by our plot.

A trug full of veg, including my tiny butternut squash and some baby patty pans, for delicious garlic-roasted vegetables, which covered one evening meal and two lunches.

Opening the curtains to a beautiful sunny October daybreak so Jamie and I could have a plot barbecue with sweetcorn straight from the plant (sorry I dropped yours in the ash, Jamie).

Seeing the bright pink spindle berries in the allotment hedge, knowing that their next phase is to reveal their amazing orange fruits.

And, did I mention this little chap serenading us all afternoon?

Remembering to zip down the polytunnel so our tomatoes and peppers didn’t get nipped by the frost on Saturday night, it sank to -0.5° and hit plants outside the polytunnel, though not the everything – surely these are the last of the courgettes?! That pleases Jamie 🤭

Pulling a single Sarpo Mira plant on Sunday and getting all these great spuds.

Enjoying fiery Autumn skies as sunrise and sunset get closer together. 

Oh, and did I mention the robin and that blue sky? We sat for hours just soaking up the rays while we contemplated doing some deadheading (pointless, the frost got them the next day) or weeding. And Ivan came to join us for a chat about his wine-making – his first batch of wine from his allotment grape vine is in preparation!

And yesterday I found that Little Planet tutorial which turned this panorama into that tiny world. 

It’s just converted using a bit of image manipulation. Here’s the ‘world’ from a different angle.

I hope you find some cheer in your world, have a good week. Song title provided by the excellent Counting Crows.