byslantedlight | Tuesday, 2 November 2021

This is getting silly - I posted a single meme in October, and otherwise nothing since my aborted September posts. So I'm going to give it another go, because I like posting to lj, and giving it another go is what I do... *g*

First of all - how is everyone? Are you still out there at all? Hello...? *g*

September ended in the most fab way, with a long weekend in London that I was determined to post about (and didn't...). As soon as October hit, everything just went to pot! It was busy workwise, as I tried to squeeze in as much Job 1 as I could (for which I get paid weekly) before shifting to Job 2 for 6-7 weeks (for which I get paid at the end of months). And it seemed like everything local kicked in then as well - book club, history society, my flu jab... and then Job 2 itself. But happily also nice things, like meeting up with

f_m_parkinson and chatting Pros for most of a day - how lush is that?! So that's my excuse for neglecting lj and everyone here for so long - sorry!

Here is the very end of October, the 31st, when I decided that things had to change! I was asked at the very last minute to go around the village and judge the scarecrow competition, as I did last year, and much as I would have loved to do it, and see all the displays, I remembered that it took way longer than expected last year, so I was good and reluctantly said I couldn't. And that was partly because of Job 2 busy-ness, and partly because I've been aching to get out into the fields again, which I haven't for ages, and just walk quietly and peacefully up and down for an hour or so, breathing air touched by sunshine, and not doing anything else - except digging for the occasional potential-treasure. *g* And my first decent signal was just where the field had called me to, and was a coin. *g* I could only make out a "G" on it, because it's very degraded, so it could be anything from George III to William (Guillame) (late 1700s/1800s) - but it was a coin, not just a random piece of old metal. *g*

And then it was yesterday - November - and especially with the clocks having gone back, I made sure to get out into the daylight and see some sunshine. I walked down to my favourite field, though no time for detecting, and looked back over the farm to the village, which was being very picturesque under the autumn blue sky.