Gosh it's been warm

Well when I say warm I mean warmish.... I didn't need to wear a coat today on my hobble around the block. The hip is killing me but we won't talk about that. I am sure you must be sick of hearing me moan). My friend Kath and I were just saying how lovely the leaf colour is and how this time last year the leaves were all down and finished. Tony has a yen to gather some bags of leaves to make leaf mould..... I wouldn't mind having some lovely composted leaves for next year. My garden is looking really rather pretty at the moment.  If it's decent some time this week I will take a few photo's of the colour out there and post a few pics. My penstemon is looking gorgeous and I will have a load more next year. I trimmed them back ages ago and simply stuck all the trimmings into a big pot of old compost... they have all rooted beautifully. The avocado seedlings are doing really well and the date stones and pomegranate seeds that sprouted look fine.   I will be able to open a garden centre at this rate  :-)
The apple tree has really done us proud this year. It's only a few years old but the crop has been enormous. The apples are quite big with a lovely crisp not too sweet flesh. A whole one is too much to eat in a sitting so we have been sharing them. I pulled a load off the tree today and there must be at least fifteen still to pick. I popped it into the teacup to give you an idea of the size. Speaking of teacup.  If you have been following me for a while you will know that we adore Christmas... Well while we were away we had a wander around some charity shops and bought this lovely Christmas Pudding teapot.  It's quite a big one and will hold quite a few cups of tea... The cost...….  £3..... what a bargain.  Alexander called in yesterday and rolled his eyes...   How many Christmas teapots does that make he asked?..... hmmmm… four, I replied..…. Do you think we need any more?