A list of good things from yesterday and today (to keep my spirits up as the wind picks up outside and the rain moves towards us from the west)

• Pruning 7 out of the 24 roses (then I ran out of room in the green bin, so the rest will wait for another week or two until it's emptied)
• Finding The life and times of Michael K, by JM Coetzee, for sale in my local second-hand bookshop, AND Claudius as God, by Robert Graves. Not one, but two books off my hit list! I like giving unwanted books a second chance, funny smells and browned pages and all (fellow gardeners, I recommend you seek out Life and times of Michael K, it is a good book on many levels, but for me as a gardener it was particularly special and I couldn't get it out of my head for months after reading it).
• Mid-season clearance sales allowing me to buy jeans reduced from exorbitantly expensive, to reasonably priced (my first new jeans since before being pregnant with SP over two years ago! Now that's frugal...)
• Watching the ducks and eating fruit salad with SP.
• Camellias blooming bright and early
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• A zonked SP
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• And lastly, finding the camera battery charger, after it's been missing for weeks and I have used up all three spare batteries completely, so next post's photos may be of better quality than those from my phone!
  

A Room with a View.

We are being treated, D, SP and I, to a view out of our bedroom window of the slowing-down garden. As I rocked my babe to sleep in my arms this quiet and drizzly morning, I couldn't resist taking a shabby phone-photo to show you the little tree in the front dressed in it's brightest yellow foliage, the English box hedges behind ringing the garden bed and the tree ferns all shaded by the giant gums.

It's a thinking kind of day today.

"Let yourself go. Pull out from those depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them."
EM Forster. A Room with a View.