I’ve not got round to #SixOnSaturday for the last coupla weeks, so here’s a late summer selection.

Whilst not blogging, I’ve finally got round to a few long overdue tasks on the to do list, including renewing my passport, and updating some outdated tech. I write this on a new (to me) laptop with photos from a new mobile phone. I’d been putting off the purchase of these items until it was necessary, but I had noticed that my old laptop and phone from 2016 were on their last legs. I got both of those about the same time I started of thinking of a plan, and blog about how it might be an idea to do that plan.

Our plan was to sell our house in London and seek a better quality of life. We set off to sunny Somerset a little while later, and started planning and planting a bigger garden, which we hoped would have more homegrown produce, more peace and quiet, more wildlife, and more time for us to enjoy it.

Things have not entirely gone according to plan. I had hoped to move away from working in IT and sell homegrown flowers, but did not work out financially. But I do have a WFH home job now, as does my lovely husband, and so we get to have our lunches together most days, in the garden if the weather agrees.

Last night we watched a couple of movies under the pergola, in what may be the last garden cinema of the year…. Guess the movie in the comments if you recognise this magical scene. 🙂

The other recent highlights include this marvellous darter that visited our pond recently. I’ve spent a bit of time playing with the macro setting on my new phone and catching some of this wonderful detail. We think this looks like a vagrant darter.

It feels very much like late summer is slipping into autumn. The shadows are noticeably longer, the days are getting shorter, and there are some raggedy old butterflies fluttering about. I loved the shadows of the tattered wings of this red admiral.

The floral star of the garden right now is this cosmos, that we picked up at the Barters garden centre sale a couple of weeks ago for about thrupence. It’s lifting the view from the back door and enticing many bees to buzz by, all of which are so far too fast for me to catch on camera.

The tomatoes in the greenhouse are still going, although probably past their peak.

The Mexican daisy by the front door is smothered by bees when the sunshines. I have spent many happy moments bugging them, trying to get a close up snapshot. Thankfully the bees are pretty chill about it.

Since I’m so late this Six On Saturday has become a Seven for Sunday, but nonetheless I will share my ramblings with the Garden Ruminations gang who post ‘Six On Saturday’. This week Jim has a very cute recuperating hedgehog in the garden.

And I’ll sneak in this addition, one of my lovely husband’s best recent acquisitions from the Share Box nearby. This wooden plant stand is the home for a few new perennial plugs planted for next year, a couple of plants in rehab after over exposure, and some cuttings and seedlings to share and enjoy.

I hope you have a lovely weekend, and a happy bank holiday, if you’re lucky enough to have an extra day off tomorrow.

J x