On The Fifth Day of Autumn...........

On the fifth day of Autumn, I made scones.........

Nothing overly interesting about that, but considering the fact it's the most cooking I have done in many months apart from the usual meals, it is quite something for me.

I put it down to the weather.........Autumn arrives and the temperature drops. On Monday night the first official Autumn evening, I had to dig out my slippers a long sleeved Tee and some trackies to wear, it was chilly.

I looked longingly at the empty wood heater and thought 'not long now, just be patient'...........

On the fifth day of Autumn No. 1 son found the shed skin of a brown snake out in the yard. We bought it inside and measured it 1.25 mts or for you folks working in inches 49 of them, yikes......

"So where's the snake?" I hear you ask...................

He added it to his collection, now he has 2 snake skins.

The other one makes the latest find look rather small........

He's doing his Bear Grylls impression !

On the first day of March we turned over a new page on the calendar.

I love Puffins, there's something rather comical about them I think.

Isn't this a fantastic photo? It was taken by UK photographer Danny Green.

March already, time is flying by way too fast.

The last flush of roses and I just love pink and red together.

Might be a while before I can pick them again.........

Autumns harvest of Nashis, they have been lovely and sweet and juicy.

No wonder the parrots are hanging around.......

The Zinnias are still going strong and a sea of colour.

This photo doesn't do the colour justice.

They will stay in the garden till May providing food for bees and butterflies.

Two of our three chicks which hatched last December. They are a Dorking x Wellsummer at the front and a Barnevelder x Wellsummer behind.

They are at the bottom of the pecking order, but are very quick to react when one of the other chooks tries to give them a peck. They have grown very quickly.

It was wonderful to watch them growing as this was the first time we have had chicks hatch.

We are assuming we have two males and a female at this stage, time will tell........

On the fourth day of Autumn Tigger decided that the dirty laundry basket looked like the ideal place for a tired cat to have a rest.

So he dragged out a couple of wind cheaters to make just enough room for him to curl up in.

Autumn is really making it's presence felt.

The evenings are cooler,no longer can we sit in the great room with doors and windows open to let the evening air in.

I leave the cover on the bed instead of folding it back.

It's boots on in the morning to go and feed the chooks, the grass is too dewy.

No. 1 son feel like he has been robbed as we had a very cool, wet Summer and he loves the heat. Whereas I love the cool weather, rugging up, snuggling down going into hibernation.........

I hope wherever you are, you are enjoying the change of season and all that it brings.

'Delicious Autumn,

my very soul is wedded to it

and if I were a bird,

I would fly about the earth

seeking successive Autumns.'

George Elliot

Have great weekend and thankyou for taking time to visit Sweet Birdy Love and leave a comment.

Till next time, take care,

Claire X

Anyone for tea and scones?

As promised dear reader the tea cosy mentioned in the previous post and it's finished.
It was made from a felted Op shop jumper and I used other felted wool from jumpers, scarves and some woollen blanket I dyed myself.

If you read the previous post you will notice how different it looks now that it has some stitching on it.

I burrowed into my fabric stash and came up with some cotton fabric to line it.

I don't 'do' tea cosies with openings for spouts and handles, far too fiddly for me

Autumns Jewels - rosehips and the last of the blackberries.

On the reverse side oak leaves and acorns and a lovely saying by Samuel Horowtiz.
It appealed to my love of Autumn.

Here it is keeping a rather large tea pot nice and cosy!

I couldn't resist showing you this little beauty I picked up during the week.

Doesn't it remind you of strawberries and cream or raspberry ripple icecream?

A lovely lady I met through my work has been crocheting them for many, many years. Gwen would be in her 70's and I couldn't help but admire it and offered to buy it .

It may be a little bit 'nanna' but you have to admire the workmanship and that's gone into it.

Lets hope that it's not a dying art.

This was one end of my stall at the market last Saturday, tea cosies, cards, baby singlets and some soft toys on the far left.

A bunch of zinnias to brighten everything up of course.

Shall have to whip up something on which to display my cards upright.


During the week a local paper featured an insert from a very well known, nearby bakery. In the insert was their recipe for their fabulous savoury scones.

We love them, a little bit too much perhaps, but No1 son decided he would whip them up.

An apron was a must, afterall, he couldn't get flour on his singlet could he?!!

Out of the oven and smelling oh sooooooooo good.

Let me reassure they tasted as good as they looked.

Funny that Mr. G. just happened to drop by on the pretext of getting some files for work!!

Another garden shot, vegie garden has done quite well this season, not that we have alot in it, we have scaled back due to the drought, but the late planted beans are going berserk over the arch (middle of the photo) I am picking a bunch everyday, just love them.

Where have the hills gone?This was the view that greeted me on Monday morning after a weekend where it rained and rained and rained, we thought we had seen the last of it, but Monday did turn out to be a fine day after a dull start.

To be honest, I do love this sort of weather and now that it is cooling down I am alot happier, as my thoughts turn to soup, more knitting, crocheting and mmm, maybe it's time for another savoury scone.

Thanks for dropping by take a minute to say 'hi', I love to read your comments.

From my corner of the globe to yours with love.

Claire X