Yesterday was a good day, despite this cold which I've now been nursing for a month. In the morning I made Sunday Buns (filled bread buns - I always used to make these on a Sunday to take on our Sunday nature walk), and we packed a thermos of tea, a bun and a piece of cake and headed up to Dryslwyn Castle. We went here on our honeymoon years ago, before we lived in Wales, and it is a place of magic and beauty. We revisit every now and then but we haven't been for a couple of years. Anyone who has visited a castle with children under 3 will recognise that it's not a relaxing experience, so it was wonderful to go yesterday and allow the children to run around and explore a bit more now that they are older.
On the way down we collected a tub of hawthorn berries - scarce in Swansea - and elderberries, ready to make jam and winter syrup. I will probably freeze the elderberries until I have more berries to add to the mix.
At the bottom of the hill standing on the bridge over the river we watched an otter below catching fish for about 15 minutes - what magic. I have seen an otter once in my life, and only briefly, slinking into the river I was swimming in as a teenager on the opposite bank.
In the morning before our trip, Will and Ivy worked on building a new wood store in the garden using pallets he found in the street. I have ordered some dry wood to arrive tomorrow, so once I've sorted out a chimney sweep we'll be all set for the colder weather coming in. Between that and the hundreds of hats, scarves, mittens and jumpers I have planned for us, it'll be a lovely cosy Autumn and I'm actually really looking forward to it. I always feel there is a fraughtness to summer, so much pressure to do everything. And, well with the weather this year we have been confounded again and again.
While Will and the kids worked I sat in the garden and did my knitting. I have 2 and a half more sleeves to go and then I can start putting the cardis together. I hope they work out well, they look lovely in pieces!
I have a doctors appointment in a bit. I'm not sure why I've made it really as I'd have to be dying before I took antibiotics, but I feel like my cold must have settled into something secondary and I had an idea that if I knew for sure what I was suffering with then I would have an idea how to treat it myself.
I'm planning to treat myself to a quick poke around the charity shop on the way home - they have a lovely little handicrafts sections and I was after a couple of zips. I'm hoping to pick apart Ivy's old school back which is made of plush material, and see if I can make it into a couple of little purses for the girls.
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