Thursday, 22 October 2020

Social Distancing at Farnham and RHS Wisley

 As a family, we are still being very careful with where we choose to visit in these uncertain times.  Obviously our nature walks are safe, but other than those we have only visited a couple of other places that we feel are safe to do so. Of course we are also doing our grocery shopping in the local supermarket.  We are happy to visit the gardens at RHS Wisley, where we are outside and able to distance from others and sit in the gardens with a picnic.  The other venue I went to was the Maltings at Farnham for Thread, a sewing festival.  I was very impressed with the organisation of the festival and although there were fewer stalls and even fewer visitors because of the careful regulation of visitors, it was good to be able to do something 'normal'.

Thread at Farnham Maltings















Afterwards I wandered around Farnham, a beautiful Georgian market town.  There were very few people around on what would usually be a busy Saturday.


September's visit to the gardens at RHS Wisley.



























The end of a beautiful day, that felt like it was summer again.

September 2020 - Home and Garden

 The cosmos still bloomed in September

and so did the roses.

This one will keep flowering until the first frost.
The dahlias have looked beautiful and although this one wasn't the colour I expected, it is still lovely.  It was supposed to be pink, but I received the wrong tubers.

I enjoyed sitting in the garden stitching the binding onto my new project bags.
I made these bags for some seasonal cross-stitching projects.
I completed a long, unfinished wip.
Found a forgotten one in a book
and started a new project.
Indoors there was lots of baking, including this new-to-me recipe for a Kentish apple cake.
We started harvesting our pumpkins and squashes from the two allotments.

This was just the first trip!