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*S0* many leaves. Beast and I spent quite a lot of yesterday morning collecting them and piling them under the beech tree. He used the lawnmower, which cut green swathes through the orange carpet. I used rake, barrow and leaf-gathering hand spades, which got through a lot more leaves, though it also left more leaves behind and did not mince them. Still, between us we made a considerable impact.

My forearms ache.

It's interesting how the different trees have shed. Sweet chestnuts are completely bare. The sycamores have golden carpets beneath them and a fair covering of yellow. The beech shed a solid orange around its spread, and the lawn further away was/is about equally copper and green. Fruit trees are bare, walnut is mostly bare, laburnum to my surprise still carries dull green leaves, plus seed pods. Meanwhile the holly at the front is generously berried.

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I recently won an auction for a voucher for an acrylic pour, and after some discussions with the artist, decided to buy an additional two canvasses so as to have a group.

Look here and you will see what I got!