This week, as forecast, the cold came and Tuesday and Wednesday nights, in particular saw a frost that has turned many of my unprotected plants to mush, The Bizzie lizzies have gone, along with several geraniums towards the bottom of the garden. But those that I have protected with my fleece blanket remain in cheerful bloom, as if nothing untoward has happened -it would be good if I could see them through to a new flouring season.
But Friday night into Saturday morning the weather changed back into the more normal heavy rainfall and grey skies. After a showery start to today, it has unfolded into a blustery but bright day and, around lunchtime, we were treated to the magnificent rainbow pictured above.
My legs held up yesterday, refereeing a fast and fit U15 side, so today I went for a run – my first in November. Nothing special, but a fairly comfortable 7K and I did toy with the idea of carrying on to make it 10K, but that thought didn’t win out!
My battle with fungus gnats continue – I have them quashed, but not totally defeated and today I watered them with a BTI solution to further my cause.
Hard to believe that we only have two weeks of term left and inspired by our trip to Lucca two weeks tomorrow, I have begun to learn some Italian – molto buono!