As Autumn Approaches

[poliphilo]

This year spring came early, summer came early and now autumn is coming early too. The plums have all ripened and either rotted on the tree or been eaten. I was picking the first apples three weeks ago. The trees are turning. This morning- though the sun was shining- there was a quite unsummery hint of frost in the air.

Dead wasps have been accumulating in a corner of my mother's bedroom. I swept them up and wondered how they were getting in. "Didn't the carer tell you?" my sister asked. It turns out there's a nest in one of the built-in cupboards. Ah. Well, that's easily dealt with. Pump in the "Raid" and seal up the door with duck tape.

Ailz and I were both feeling jaundiced yesterday (our day off) so we ventured no further than Tunbridge Wells. Just being out of the house revived us- because it's enervating to be cooped up with a very old person all the time and having to conform to their pace and their routines. We parked up at the cheaper end of town- where the geek shops and the junk shops and the electric cigarette shops are; also the mosque; and had lunch in a cafe run by Eastern Europeans. We went through the charity shops- and I bought a couple of books and a couple of CDs and an early 19th century engraving of Maidstone gaol. I seem to be starting a collection of old topographical prints; no-one else wants them and they can be had for a song.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

What a lovely print!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Cost me £4.00- which is nothing, really.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! I love prints like this. Met a lady from Margate, by the way, who seemed really pleased I'd heard of it. I suppose it's not a big destination for American tourists.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

No, it wouldn't be. It's rather out on a limb.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Indeed, it's been a bit odd to see the hedgerow by one of my rabbiteering spots thinning out the leaves already, and the conkers are well underway locally. If only that didn't all lead to the clocks going back, and shoving the evening firmly back into darkness so early.. quite why that chronological idiocy persists, I'll never understand.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm told it benefits communities in the North of Scotland. Otherwise I think it's simply a matter of inertia.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

It is a great print ant a giveaway price really.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This is the fourth I've bought in recent months; they were all comparably cheap.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I paid rather more than that for a couple prints of Minster Lovell fifteen years ago.