Step-nephew's wife asked for a strawberry hat for their child. Why do people want to wear stuff that looks like food?
Work in progress.
One of my fellow Pilates apprentices grows flowers. She gave me a gorgeous bunch of rununculus and freesias - gorgeous scent - on one of my trips to Nelson. They are nearly two weeks in the vase now. How good is that? 
Pumpkin colours.
It's nearly Halloween season in cultures that make a thing of it these days - All Hallows Evening. It is followed by All Saints and on the third evening (because trinity seems to be a theme in Christian spirituality), All Souls. I was reminded of this early today while cutting up my second last pumpkin of our last Autumn
Bright orange. Sweet. Luscious. Easily my favorite cooked vegetable. I snack on cooked pumpkin. Strange woman. I have frozen some to deal with pumpkin-snack-withdrawal season (known to the rest of the world as 'summer'). Chilled mashed pumpkin....
Roofing contractors were filling the air over our bay with their sounds. I could hear their compressed air guns while teaching Pilates indoors a few 100 metres away.
We have two forths of a house roof - the lean-to front and back
Tomorrow I might make a paella for lunch seeing as both the builders and roofers will be here - a huge pan on the barbeque. Easy lunch for 8.
All Sorts of different pumpkins and squash have started turning up here. Everytime I've bought one in days gone by they've been disappointing, too watery. I just buy the local squash and make soup. No Halloween around here.
ReplyDeleteAll Souls though, that's another story. Another Orthodox celebration
I'd rather Halloween wasn't here either because it has never been about religion here - simply a load of commercial tat that ends up joining landfill in the first week of November. (Call me a Grinch.)
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ReplyDeleteA vlogger I am following (quite local to me in Scotland) has just shown us the wee jumper she knitted for her 16 month-old daughter who is obsessed with strawberries... it looked so good, I almost would want one for myself! And I wholeheartedly support your pumpking obsession. I adore them too, but finding anything decent here is like finding hen's teeth. Something I deeply miss from down under... YAM xx
I've seen pumpkin hats too - some good, some simply orange and green.
DeleteI bet that baby looks sweet and yummy in the little strawberry hat!
ReplyDeleteIn all my gardening, I've never grown pumpkins I tried once. They take up too much space for my little fenced garden, and the forest-friend deer assumed I'd meant the plants with blossoms on the hillside for their pleasure.
When I'm in Pilates on Tuesday & Thursday mornings, I'll wonder if my friend on the other side of the world is doing the same moves that day.
Gorgeous flowers. Lucky lady.
ReplyDeleteIs that wriggly tin the final roof covering or do your roofs get tiled like ours?
The wriggly tin is indeed the roof. The wall cladding is also wriggly tin - same colour. Traditional colonial building material and the closest colour I could get to old railway goods-sheds. The paint for railway goods-sheds must have fallen off a lot of trucks because tin barns across the countryside bear fading evidence of the colour.
DeleteFeed them well and they'll work equally well!
ReplyDeleteGood progress
Roofers didn't rurn up after all that. Grrr
DeleteA strawberry is kind of cool and at least you can make it, i would struggle, being like everyone else is boring, have a nice week.
ReplyDeleteThe southern Halloween is the end of April. That’s when we harvest our pumpkins
ReplyDeleteBut capitalism has pushed it down south and now it’s becoming an October “ tradition” here too.
I do love your tin roof, it’s going to sound awesome when it rains