my week in pictures

Working at home has its perks. Here my elevenses, a strong double espresso and a multi-seeded flat bread with peanut butter and banana slices. Almost as delicious as an Empire biscuit. The downside of working at home is a sore lower back because I don't have my gigantic bouncy ball seat to help me keep a good posture. 

These fluffy sunflowers are in one of our neighbours front garden. I don't know why but the flowerhead reminds me of the Silkie breed of chicken, only these are white or black and mobile.

Fading beauty. I saw the roses on a dog walk and the hydrangea grows in my front garden. Both are past their best but still gorgeous (just like myself really).

Lovely contrast of colours. I wanted to take another photo of this very leaf with a cleaned camera lens but it had blown away already. 

The cats doing what they love best - resting on Annie's bed. Lupin on the bottom pictures looks a bit put-out by being disturbed. What you can't see is the horrendous stench that follows her around.... she has an infection in here right ear canal (probably a scratch)  and produces pus by the bucket-full. She has been given a slow release antibiotic injection and anti-inflammatories and should be better soon.

My growing quilt on our living room cow hide rug. I am just about to sew the next row on, something for the weekend. 

I think we might need to give our skylights a wash. The professional window cleaner declares it unsafe to climb up on the roof and Richard does it instead. Not very often as you can see. 

The street I live on.... it is not all derelict, honestly. There are quite a few such garages in the neighbourhood. Our own is pretty. We Richard painted it a dark glossy blue. Our is a solid brick structure rather than a wooden shed.

A pile of windfall apples. I check the windfall and throw the fruit already partially eaten by slugs on a pile. There are still so many apples on the tree, we can't keep up with eating them. The pears are nearly finished. 

This is the second bloom of my really disappointing dahlia growing efforts. I have four plants, one has produced a single bloom earlier in the year, this one is just opening up. I grow them on the front steps in big pots, where there are few slugs but it is very exposed. This plant is actually without pot, it broke in a recent storm. 

It is the September weekend here in Glasgow. Schools are off Friday and Monday. I am not officially off but now that my online courses are up and running, there is a lot of online discussions to moderate, which I do daily. It is quite astonishing how much time this takes and I feel not guilty at all for having the odd easy day during term to compensate for evening and weekend hours. We had planned a camping trip but the forecast was poor and we decided to stay at home. It is a shame really because this morning, the weather is glorious. Of course it is! There are five teenagers making waffles in the kitchen (music blasting through the house), three pre-teens playing upstairs and one dog begging for fried bacon, which is to go on the waffles. The cats are sleeping and Richard is out on the bike.

Have a lovely weekend!