Into Winter

Hmmmm, not a lot to update on really!

Garden:
Nothing much at all! Thinking about getting my garlic in still...

Home sweet home:
Here is a picture of some of my new potplants. I've even decided to try growing some basil as well. This is the only sunny windowsill I have (aside from bedroom windows). A bit odd, since it's right beside my front door, but I like it. I also repotted one of my older plants and ended up with about 6 little plants that I'm just nurturing along a little before I decide what to do with them.

Have also rearranged things around in the house. The kids area is now to one end of the lounge (it's actually meant less mess IN the sitting area and since the other area is smaller they seem to not pull out more and more to fill every gap they can find!). Even though I haven't actually confined them to that area, it just seems to work better all round.

Dinner:
I set myself a challenge tonight to use up the vegetables that we have since we are due for our vege box delivery tomorrow. I had a fennel root that needed using up (what the heck? but I did find a recipe in the first book I looked in), some salad ingredients and a few other random greens and root veges. So I came up with roasted fennel and parsnip, salmon frittata (which used up the potato, pumpkin, spinach, onion) and a salad - and the kids ate carrot sticks while waiting for dinner to cook. I did pretty well, and not a lot left.


Keeping warm:
Well, we seem to have gone through more wood that we did last winter, so have ordered another load. I think the weather has been colder and wetter this year so far (or maybe I've just gotten softer!) so it's meant feeling cozier with the fire roaring. The general rule around here is though - on sunny days, even if there is a bitter chill to the air, I don't generally light the fire as we get the sun streaming into the bedrooms so tend to hang out down that end instead. Rainy days without sun means no other means of being warm (and the ambience of the fire chases away any blah feelings), so then we light the fire.

Craft/New Skills:
I have been hankering for a new craft. I've been admiring some really lovely rag rugs on Flickr over the past few weeks, so thought I'd give one a go. I'm using old t-shirts for this one (shame I had done a declutter as we went into autumn of all the old T's so may need to scrounge around for some more). It's really quick to crochet up, but the most time consuming part is cutting up the strips of fabric (can't really tear them since the fabrics are stretchy and thick).

My colours don't look as pretty as the ones I was admiring, but I'm quite pleased with it so far (takes a bit of guesswork to get it to lie flat - increasing or not just goes by feel and look).