Autumn Everywhere & Muddy Boots.

I actually don't mind being cold at all, it's so easy to whack on a few extra layers if needed, it's the darn rain I can't stand - and the misery it brings with it.

It had been so dark and dreary lately and it's all well and good celebrating autumn but the change in the weather isn't really something I'm willing to get on board with.

So when the sun finally shone last Sunday, it was time to take a walk to a much-neglected favourite place and unwind. I was getting the beginnings of feeling poorly so for me it was warm enough to walk around in just a cardigan (though I didn't quite realise that the time).



It's a wonderful time of year to see the sun, it makes everything golden no matter what the time of day and walking around Greenham Common again was so nice, even if my favourite boots ended up with a bit more mud on them than I would have liked.





Why is it always one shoe?



All the horse chesnuts we came across had already been harvested.

Meet my new favourite skirt, it was £1, >ONE POUND!

We were able to be quite the mycologists, there were mushrooms everywhere! ♥




We rescued this little guy from spending the rest of his life on his back :)


The cows seemed much more relaxed than usual, I think because there were only a few dogs around but it was really easy to get up close.




There were a few bulls in the small herd we came across, I hadn't seen any on the common before but they seemed as relaxed as the cows, which was nice to see.


Here's to my kind of autumn day! As it gets colder, the contrast of coming home to a warm flat will be the best, it's definitely a good idea to get out and do this more, we haven't been for any weekend walks in what feels like ages. It's probably best to keep on with it once Moon and I have completely shifted the last of this lurgy though.

Surrey Hills :: Saturday Adventure.

Just a few snaps from our quick stopover visiting our friends, Tom and Matt, at the beginning of the month. Matt was poorly due to a few too many birthday shandies the previous night but Tom, Moon and I had a lovely walk along the Surrey Downs and around Silent Pool after a delicious pub lunch at The White Horse in Shere. (feat. beef rib, oh my!)

Saturday Snelsmore Snaps.

I was going to say it's nice that the weather settled down but it hasn't really, that said, it's warm enough to go for walks after work and to get out in the garden in the evenings and play catch. It was warm last weekend though and even though it clouded over, we made the most of it and headed up to Snelsmore Common for a less swampy walk than our last visit.

We didn't get to see any ponies like we have done before but it was nice to walk around chatting, deciding which routes to take and talking 'big future things' without the distraction of the TV or our phones. Moon actually might love it up there and insisted we walk up there again the next day with some old (new) Newbury friends, they did help us find a new route from Donnington Castle though so I'm not complaining.




We've been obsessed by 'wild' pine cones since seeing huge one for £20 in shop when were in Bath at Christmas. I mean really, how ludicrous, they're free everywhere. Our favourite game is 'how much do you reckon this one's worth?', the amount we've even seen in other shops is getting a bit silly too!




50p of pine cone.











You might have guessed it by now but I'm quite liking a bit of this landscape stuff at the moment, not sure why, I think it's the changing of the seasons and being able to enjoy being outside again.