September, half way.

In a recent post I mentioned my challenge of walking 90 miles during the month, and on 15th, halfway through, I had walked slightly more than the target 45 miles. Well done me.

 The yarden doesn't have a lot of colour this time of year (apart from a lot of green), so I walked round to the local garden centre and bought a couple of flowering plants, a Michaelmas Daisy and a Salvia Hot Lips 

 

and, at long last, one of my cosmos has flowered.

 

I made the decision to harvest my bag of potatoes. Maybe I should have left them longer, there were loads of spuds, but all very small.

 I have lots of things currently on the go, but nothing I can photograph yet. Watch this space.

September, ten on the tenth

 Ten photos taken through the day yesterday, all fairly self-explanatory.

 

And a couple of bonus photos, because I love numbers - make sure you look at both of them

 

September, the first week

For some years now, I have made a point of travelling to Hastings to visit my friend Amanda as soon as the schools start back, with the thought that the weather is usually still OK at this time of year. I was lucky, in that it didn't rain, but also it wasn't too hot. On the way down I met up with PJ, my eldest son, for lunch at Waterloo.

 

Amanda and I have been friends since GO and her elder son started toddler group, 36 years ago. She is so much fun to be with, we have a real laugh.

We took a walk along the beach at Bexhill while I was there

 We took some of her dogs out.

 

And on the morning of my return, we went down to the sea front at Hastings

 Thanks Amanda, see you same time next year.

Back at home, and I finished my jigsaw puzzle of Skipton Market (some of you may remember that I went to Skipton in July, and this jigsaw puzzle was in a load of second-hand puzzles that I bought locally).

 We have a fantastic crop of tomatoes this year, I'm picking loads each day

 

 I've started a couple of new projects, one of which is another dream-catcher, progress so far:

 My BIG thing for September, as I have got so far behind with my step count for the year, is to Challenge myself to walk 3 miles each day, making 90 miles for the month. After the first week I'm still well on target, having completed over 21 miles

 Thanks for reading, how is your September going?