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| Scratting the apples using his homemade apple torture device. |
The hill at the back of our garden is covered
in crunchy leaves (we really must find time to rake them up this weekend). I’m
beginning to crave stodgier food, and the butternut squash on the vine are constantly
teasing me with all the squash lasagnes, risottos and soups that are to come.
Every harvest from the tomatoes, chillies and courgettes feels like a last
hurrah. We worship any remaining sign of colour in the flower garden.
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| Chillies still going strong, but maybe not for much longer. |
Also, the neighbour has started laughing at
Rob for wearing shorts instead of long trousers – always a sign that the
season has definitely changed. (The locals being sticklers for dressing
according to what the calendar says, not the actual temperature outside.) To be
fair, though, it’s properly cold when we get up in the mornings. It’s almost
time to pack away the flip flops I use as slippers in the summer, and dust off my
serious fleece-lined slippers.
I think autumn is my favourite season.
(Although, ask me again in July when I’m lazing next to a pool, or in May when
a new gardening season is ramping up, and you’d probably get a different answer.)
Maybe it’s because it always feels like we get a proper autumn here in
Bulgaria. In England we only ever seemed to get two seasons: the cold wet
season and the warm wet season. (Which reminds me of the guy in Las Vegas who
told me Vegas also only had two seasons: the short-shorts season and the
long-shorts season.)
Anyway, here’s to a good Bulgarian autumn …
and homemade cider. Lots and lots of lovely homemade cider. It should be ready
to drink around Halloween, so if I ‘go dark’ for several weeks in November, don’t
worry. We’ll just be losing ourselves in cider.
