One of those nothing weeks!

 Not sure where it went but certainly not a lot happened. Even my pilates class was cancelled as several people were away or ill.

Definitely not a lot of sewing happening, in fact only my Stitch Journal has been worked on. Seems like I do need the Chookshed Challenge motivation to get me moving.

The weather has not really been conducive to getting out and about either.

I have mainly been working on my family album. I started it last year adding pictures of my parents wedding and all the cards etc that Mum had saved for 69 years. I think I have now finished adding pictures so it's just a matter of going through and labelling them all up.

My knitting needles have been busy in the evenings and progress has been made on my top - I think I am halfway up the body. Maybe something to show next week. Also I have been reading. I finished this book

the first in a series of five books about the Cazalet family. I am not usually one for family sagas but this was brilliant and I ordered the next two books as soon as I had finished it. The first book is set in the two years before the start of the second World War.

The first named storm of the season came through yesterday, storm Austen, with rain and strong winds although fortunately we didn't get the full force of the wind. It was however strong enough to cause this tree on the green outside our house to lose a large branch. 

It is always the last tree out there to lose it's leaves so it is still full ofvery green leaves making it especially vulnerable to catching the wind. Just have to hope that the powers that be don't decide to take down the whole tree because it 'could' be dangerous. There is another storm passing over today, storm Boelo, but the strong winds are passing over the north of the country, down here it is just very wet. But we can not complain as we need the rain to fill our reservoirs.

So tonight we turn our clocks back an hour and move onto winter time. An extra hour in bed tomorrow morning and lighter mornings for a week or so. Dark earlier in the evening though. 

Back next week. Happy stitiching.