September always signals a new beginning for me. It’s years since I left school I still always get that start of term feeling. This year however I am really struggling to deliver on that new term,  new start feeling,  as I have so many distractions.

Distraction one : Produce in garden

Our chaotic vegetable garden is producing an abundance of courgettes and green beans and not much else.

This require picking on a regular basis and either eating , freeezing and giving away. The courgettes won’t freeze so well. So I have made some soups and frozen that but now I have just resorted to giving them away.

Distraction Two : Garden projects

Since we renovated our house in 2016 , the area outside has reassembled a building site. Now my husband has retired he has embarked on sorting it out. I am a kind of unpaid assistant, tidying up, moving soil and with a little help building these new steps.  Many distractions here when the weather is good.

This week 4 big bags of gravel have arrived.  That is is quite a lot of wheel barrowing to do soon as well.

Distraction Three : Unfinished knitted items

I have recently joined a new knitting club at our local library and I am frankly embrassed about my unfinished knitted projects.

I can’t possibly list them all, but there a sock needing  its partner. A cardigan for me needing finishing , a cardigan for my granddaughter needing sewing up. A hat needing the ends sew in and a jumper I knitted needing either me to put on weight or to be taken in. You can be sure I have not admitted to all this at the knitting club , just quietly sat there finishing my socks .

So back to felting , I have been ignoring the garden produce this week and managed to felt another bag.

Hopefully this week I will manage to keep the distractions under control. I will finish my bag along with a couple of the smaller knitted items and be on top of things again.  Luckily the weather has turned quite rainy and I can’t possibly move gravel in the rain !