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Who knew that cosmos plants produced such impressive fruits? #windfalls #pears

Hello #GardensHour October has been all about apples and pears

Revisiting a decision made a couple of months ago not to make jam. There has been demand from the wider family network for home made jam so got this lot out of the freezer to boil up again #allotment #growYourOwnFood

Things I have inadvertently stockpiled 📚books 📒notebooks 🖌drawing and painting materials 🍎apples 🥔potatoes Reckon I'll be entertained and fed for a wee while

#Harvest. I always forget that this may be my favourite time of year. #October

A wander round the damp garden before the storms for #SixOnSaturday cherry tree leaves, viburnum, late roses, rowan berries, red apples, beautiful pears

Grim #rain here in Edinburgh today but I caught these little lovelies in the garden before it got going #FlowersOnFriday

Been picking some Howgate Wonder #apples in advance if this weekend's high winds. There are some whoppers - this one weighing in at 440g. Not a record for my tree but still pretty impressive 🍎

#GardensHour this week we've had our first frost and lots of apples and pears

Last potato haul from the allotment. Left them on the grass to dry for a bit, turned my back and a crow landed and flew off with a whole potato. Got to love the #wildlife

First frosty #SixOnSaturday of the season. 1 degree c in the garden overnight, frost on the grass, blue sky, apples and pears hanging like jewels in the trees

Another #FingerpostFriday from the Lake District, pointing towards a slightly chilly dip in Bassenthwaite Lake 🏊‍♀️

Was looking through photos on my phone and it has a really useless auto ID function. This came up under 'pigeons' but nicely fits today's #BirdoftheDay theme of #moorhens. Got to love their feet

More windfalls and a broken branch on my pear tree, from last night's wind.🍐poor little tree, laden down with all this treasure but it will recover

Windfalls from this afternoon's high winds: one giant apple, two giant pears and a sensibly sized one of each 🍏🍐

Fantastic walk up in the Lake District hills, travelling by bus. View down to Sprinkling Tarn. Didn't manage a swim this time but it's a beautiful place #PublicTransport

A bit late for #FingerpostFriday but this shows one with two impossible, in fact impassable, choices. We gave up in the end

It's getting a bit nippy at night so I harvested all the outdoor #tomatoes. I'll leave most of them to ripen indoors now. The big fat ones are the Italian plum 'San Marzano'. The smaller ones, which have not done so well this year, are mostly costoluto Florentino.

#Heron in the rock pools at Granton. #TidesOutTuesday

Blooming cold tonight so have had to resort to the old woolly blanket and cat winter regime ❄🐈‍⬛

#GardensHour delighted my sweet peas are still flowering. These are 'Earl Grey'

Hello #GardensHour had my first broccoli and last runner beans for tea today. Seasons turning.

It's been a bit of a tricky day but look at this little carnation that appeared in my garden this morning #SmallBeauties #bloomScrolling

Slightly chilly first October #SixOnSaturday . Tiny violas, everlasting cosmos, beautiful asters, a big yellow courgette flower, Welsh poppies still attracting bees

Quick nippy dip in the sea 🏊‍♂️ then watching oyster catchers and herons on the shore #SmallBeauties #1stOctober

Trying to catch this supremely chunky bumblebee as it flitted around the cosmos flowers. Mostly failing. #SmallBeauties

Pink, white and purple flowers in the late summer sunshine for #sixonSaturday pink and purple asters, white sweet peas and cosmos, late flowering rose, Shropshire Lad and a fluffy bee on some lavender

Out along the East Lothian coast and its fabulous beaches earlier this week for #FingerpostFriday

Lovely swim yesterday at mid tide, Yellowcraig Beach, East Lothian #TidesOutTuesday 🏊‍♂️

Signs of autumn among the late summer flowers for #SixOnSaturday pink and white cosmos, orange pyracantha berries, tomatoes, turning red, purple aster, red rowan berries, cherry tree leaves turning red

Tonight's tea: mostly home grown roasted veg - onions, 2 kinds of courgettes, apple, tomatoes, rosemary, runner beans, with some bought garlic and lime. Will be served with home grown new potatoes #SmallBeauties #growYourOwnFood

#curlews on police hq playing fields - an autumn joy #SmallBeauties

Had the first edible pear from my laggard pear trees (no edible pears in 8 years). This was a windfall, slightly crunchy but provides promise of success with those still on the tree. 🍐

Where did the day go? Anyway here's a late flowering Boule de Neige rose for #roseWednesday

Tiny frog in the long grass in my garden #SmallBeauties I've seen a couple of those today while out tidying up

Apple and pear season incoming for #SixOnSaturday howgate wonder, red Falstaff, Christmas Pippin, sunset, pear doyenne de comice, red Williams. We've had a few windfalls but plenty more just ripening nicely

Cosmos 'Fizzy White' with visiting bumblebee for #FlowersOnFriday

Anyone venturing onto toxic platforms like Facebook and Twitter at the moment will see an endless wave of abuse of the RNLI. But on the plus side. The RNLI are reporting a "significant increase" in donations this week. Let's be part of it..... 👇

Just biting into the first eating apple of the season (Red Falstaff) and, wow, a reminder of the difference in taste between a home grown apple and one from the shops. Plenty more to come too 🍎🍎🍎 #AutumnJoys #SmallBeauties

#wildFlowerHour #fruits enormous red spherical hips of the wild rosa rugosa

Quick dash round the garden to see what I could enter for the local veg show. These are all too bendy, quirky, knobbly or insufficient in number: beans, cucumber, pear, tomatoes, apple sunset and apples Howgate Wonder #SixOnSaturday . Off to the show with jam, chutney and more apples

This crow swooped down on the outdoor table I was sitting at and swiped a discarded wooden fork, left behind by a previous littering occupant #SmallBeauties #litterpicking

#FromARailwayCarriage East coast mainline, sun over the sea on the border coast #TidesOutTuesday

#GardensHour pink. Here's a bee on a cosmos (sonata) and a lovely pink rose (Gertrude Jekyll) and a pink pink

#wildFlowerHour some lovely seedheads from my garden: bee on a teasel, snakeshead frittilaries, dandelion clock

Late summer flowers in the sunshine for #sixonSaturday cosmos fizzy white and sonata with a bee, sweetpeas, ice cream and kingfisher, viola and courgette

Opening up a home made flower press (made of old table mats and a few nuts and bolts) after its first pressing. These are mostly sweet peas and violas. #FlowersOnFriday #SmallBeauties