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autumn leaves start to fall
Nov. 21st, 2021 10:11 amAutumn is very yellow this year. The beech trees are providing a welcome splash of copper here and there, but there is very little other orange and almost no red in the trees. The sycamores here are golden*—very pretty, but I prefer it when they sport red and orange. What is on the ground has red and orange in it, but seems to have floated off the trees the instant the colour got interesting.
I had a slightly unexpected wander through Norfolk on Monday, after a trip to Diss to meet some friends for coffee. Diss, despite its name, is rather a pretty place, with a hidden lake and a very nicely set-up path to the lake. My phone map app kept lying to me, though, once I got into the town—sending me the wrong way at roundabouts, being insistent that I wanted to go into supermarket car parks, generally no help at all. So I used my instincts instead and found a place to park, and joy of joys, as I pulled in to the car park one of my friends was just getting her ticket!
Anyway, the map let me down again on the way out, so instead of returning to Norwich by the simple route I ended up on a B road winding through places like Winfarthing, Bunwell, and Tacolneston. But, was no hurry and I rather enjoyed it.
Yesterday, I walked to the not-quite-town shopping area (for some cat yogurt) and realised as I walked from our drive that it was a match day. There were hordes of people sporting green and yellow, walking the same way as I was. We diverged at the one-way system, they went to Carrow Road and I straight on, but I met another horde in the shopping centre. I got my cat yogurt and then went to Hobbycraft, because, you know, it was there. Did I buy anything? Well, it was Hobbycraft, so, yes.
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I acquired an Apple watch last week. I thought it was supposed to be a Christmas present, but my Beast felt that I should put it on and start using it straight away, so I have had this thing on my wrist that nags me to stand up once an hour (if I have not been standing up for the first fifty minutes). Yesterday, I used it to pay for my Stuff! This is... remarkably handy.
* golden, but very often with black spots like cigar burns, which is worrying, but apparently not Very Bad News. Fungal, but not going to damage the tree. Unsightly, though.
I had a slightly unexpected wander through Norfolk on Monday, after a trip to Diss to meet some friends for coffee. Diss, despite its name, is rather a pretty place, with a hidden lake and a very nicely set-up path to the lake. My phone map app kept lying to me, though, once I got into the town—sending me the wrong way at roundabouts, being insistent that I wanted to go into supermarket car parks, generally no help at all. So I used my instincts instead and found a place to park, and joy of joys, as I pulled in to the car park one of my friends was just getting her ticket!
Anyway, the map let me down again on the way out, so instead of returning to Norwich by the simple route I ended up on a B road winding through places like Winfarthing, Bunwell, and Tacolneston. But, was no hurry and I rather enjoyed it.
Yesterday, I walked to the not-quite-town shopping area (for some cat yogurt) and realised as I walked from our drive that it was a match day. There were hordes of people sporting green and yellow, walking the same way as I was. We diverged at the one-way system, they went to Carrow Road and I straight on, but I met another horde in the shopping centre. I got my cat yogurt and then went to Hobbycraft, because, you know, it was there. Did I buy anything? Well, it was Hobbycraft, so, yes.
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I acquired an Apple watch last week. I thought it was supposed to be a Christmas present, but my Beast felt that I should put it on and start using it straight away, so I have had this thing on my wrist that nags me to stand up once an hour (if I have not been standing up for the first fifty minutes). Yesterday, I used it to pay for my Stuff! This is... remarkably handy.
* golden, but very often with black spots like cigar burns, which is worrying, but apparently not Very Bad News. Fungal, but not going to damage the tree. Unsightly, though.