September 17, 2009 · 2 Comments
What a beautiful walk this morning – sunny and fresh with a crispness that promises cooler days to come.
The sun was throwing strong shadows around and Jessie stood still obligingly, enabling me to catch these shots. Notice how autumnal the ground looks.
First her upper half:
Next the bottom half:
And finally a glimpse of the real thing:
It’s so beautiful here and it’s changing rapidly. The ground is providing Georgie with a damp bed of leaves to roll in at the beginning of each walk – the damper, the better!
Such a contrast to Tuesday which was wet, wet, wet – not many of us around that day but still a treat to be outside in the fresh air. We did get soaked though!
Categories: Autumn · Brighton · East Sussex · English weather · Stanmer Woods · Sussex · The Fall · dog walks · dog walks brighton · english woods · golden retriever · shadows
Tagged: Autumn, autumn dog walk, dog's tail, shadow of dog, shadow of dog's head, shadow of dog's tail
September 4, 2009 · 1 Comment
Wow, has it been that long since my last post!
Well we’re all still here – out and about with the dogs – enjoying the summer and getting used to the idea of autumn.
This morning we’ve been scrumping for blackberries, Georgie and Jessie eating the ones on the lower branches while I’ve been keeping to those above dog height. And as any dog owner knows – dogs seem to love blackberries! Well ours do anyway.
It’s actually coming to the end of the blackberry season.
In Brighton – where it tends to be a little warmer than further north in the UK – we’ve been picking them throughout August. It seems to get earlier and earlier each year.
I read a few entries in a school log book of the 1870s in Norfolk, and the children were picking blackberries in October. So there’s proof if we ever needed it.
When I got home I saw that a couple of apples on our patio were ready for picking so I decided to make a blackberry and apple crumble.
8oz plain flour
3oz butter
3oz sugar
generous layer of stewed apples and fresh blackberries
35 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees
Assume it was delicious – we’ll be having it tonight with some vanilla ice-cream – YUMMY!!
Categories: Autumn · East Sussex · England · blackberries · dogs · recipe
Tagged: apple and blackberry crumble, crumble mix, crumble recipe, dogs eating blackberries
