Autumn jobs

It's been a nice but tiring and busy day today. Will has been off sick with a bug which isn't great, but did mean that I occasionally had an extra pair of hands to keep at least one child busy while I cracked on with a few winter jobs, and I'm feeling quite proud of how much I've ticked off.
I have cleared our little patio area to the side of the house. All pots with annuals emptied, compost reused elsewhere, shrubs put in the greenhouse for winter. Hanging baskets emptied and everywhere swept.in the garden I have picked the first crate of apples that I will store in the shed, mowed the lawn, planted Christmas potatoes in the greenhouse, potted on my herb cuttings and a few strawberry runners that had found their way out of the bed and into the lawn, cut the sunflower heads for drying, hard pruned the mint and lemon balm and cut back some of the woody herbs and hung to dry in the greenhouse. Collected more marigold and chamomile flowers to dry for tea, and started pulling up some of the annuals in the garden (well, just borage so far), and a tarp over the biggest veg patch. Phew! Now a well earned cuppa before falling into bed to start it all again tomorrow.