The sound of Sundays
Hello m' berry pies,
Sundays are for lie ins with tea and books, breakfast croissants, garden pottering, maybe a bit of painting. Here is the sound of a Sunday morning at Long Mizzle, courtesy of the local church bell ringers [video] -
This year's Braeburn apple harvest... thirty of 'em! Some destined for a pie.
Saturday afternoons are for heavier work, such as hedge trimming.
Chopping up the trimmings and making a new compost heap at the bottom of the garden -
But Sundays are for serious snoozes and wonderbeasts with flattened heads -
Lazy gardening: throwing down seeds heads, letting them grow where they fall.
Above: Teasel seedlings
Sipping coffee, enjoying the flowers -
As promised, my watercolour attempt of the September sunflowers.
And finally,
only at the weekends can you get away with being a moose.
I like your sunflowers - a lot - very good - lots of different colours and movement.
ReplyDeleteI like your churchbells on a Sunday (the only bell we get is the doorbell going 'ding dong ding dong, your heads gone wrong, all screws are loose, your head's no use) I would like to wear antlers and be a deer - I might just do that now your youngster has demonstrated how it's done. Am thinking of halloween, pumpkins, whether I should dress up as a witch (my mother really was one so I have a head start), my lazy paintbrushes hiding in a pot, my empty garden (chopped everything back very enthusiastically), my friend's allotment (jealous, went to visit), there's so much to think about and not much to do - I want to sip tea in your garden could you organise an open day next Summer please - maybe a bit like Susan Branch (writer) who had a picnic on her holibobs and invited all use cute little English peeps along, and everyone turns up with a picnic to join in kind of thing?
When wondering whether to dress up as a witch... the answer should always be YES Betty. Then you could zap that door bell with your broom stick. Let's meet upon the heath, be it in lightening, thunder or rain. If needs be we'll hover through fog and filthy air. Bring a pumpkin, and your paintbrushes. Then we'll gather in the garden to drink a tipple in dainty teacups with our pinkies pointing out. Lulu xXx
DeleteThat watercolour is stunning you clever girl. I hope you didn't frighten away that moose.. :-) Gossip.... my son's getting married in a big teepee in the middle of a field at the end of next month... what should I wear? We have to go to the Register office first for the formal bit then we are heading back to the teepee for a 'handfasting'. Tony and I are considering sleeping in the car at the hippy dippy venue cos we are too darn tight to pay £130 quid to sleep in a hippy dippy venue tent or £30 for taxi home. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks chuck. Good question about what to wear for a teepee wedding...hmm, an antelope? ...or a medicine man? or you could just play the socially acceptable ticket, and get yourself a great Cilla Black wedding hat? Whatever the outfit, it will be great fun. £130 !!!!!!!!!!!! I need to invest in teepees... Lulu xXx
DeleteI'm absolutely loving the sight - and sound - of your Sunday morning! I love a bit of bell ringing, which takes me back to UK holidays and ... episodes of Midsomer Murders :-)
ReplyDeleteYour watercolour is gorgeous, and I'm loving the local wildlife, including cat and moose!
I'm sure I've eaten pissed on blackberries too, although I'm not sure the devil was to blame! xxx
Happy to hear enjoyed the bells, wildlife and paint Ann :) Yes, I would not visit the church in Midsomer County, especially when the bells are ringing. I would certainly not talk to any old ladies, frequent a tea room, nor book any magicians for a party...surely that is just asking for trouble?! Even going to the library sounds risky. Glad you lived to tell the tale of the alternatively pissed on blackberries. Lulu xXx
DeleteHi Lulu, What a wonderful post. You are very talented - I wouldn’t know where to start with a paintbrush and blank canvas - I’d probably transform into that Fast Show character and paint it all black in a frenzied style. Beautiful painting! I laughed out loud at the idea that pissed on blackberries made you a better guitarist. I know three chords - maybe I’ll give it a whirl! The church bells soundtrack was bliss. xxx
ReplyDeleteHaha, I loved the Fast Show! Jazz man was my old guitar teacher. Nice. Those berries are sure to break the three chord habit and add some devil tones to your playing. It is amazing that they don't sell them in guitar shops really. Thank you Claire, I like to pride myself on being multi-talent-less. Lulu xXx
DeleteYour painting is just amazing x
ReplyDeleteHow kind, thank you :) xXx
DeleteDear Lulu
ReplyDeleteYour watercolour is beautiful. So evocative of late summer. Love the church bells too - my Dad and sisters were all bell ringers (they used to talk of Grandsire Doubles and 'Look to, treble's going, she's gone' and other such impenetrable phrases, to us non-bell ringing folk).
It all sounds like the perfect Sunday!
Have a good week
Best wishes
Ellie
Very kind of you Ellie :) Woah!!!! I didn't know there was bell ringing talk. That's brings a whole new dimension to it. Every time I've been inside the church, someone has tried to enroll me a bell ringer. I just love the sound of it, especially when there's a couple of 'newbies' and the sound gets a bit avant gard. Lulu xXx
DeleteYup - that was a bit like our Sunday - pootling around the garden, doing just enough to get things done and drinking copious amounts of tea whilst finishing off weekend birthday cake and buns (well some one had to do it!)
ReplyDeleteWeekend birthday cake? I need to pop over to see whose birthday. Hopefully you have saved some cake for me? ;) .... Lulu xXx
Deleteyour sunflower painting is absolutely stunning!!!
ReplyDeletethe "kunstgewerbeschule dresden" would take you with a kiss on the hand!
loved the bells - thanks for that video. and how lovely your garden looks in early fall..... and the apples and pie sound mouthwatering - i guess i have to collect some from somewhere, no apple tree at the BWH - but the BW would love to eat homemade apple pie.
we made some trips lately, have to look yet for the photos.... week started busy with mending the weak cistern in the powder room. oh - the glamour ;-D
xxxxx
Thank you Beate :) x Glad you like the wee video. The bells are always a highlight of the week. They stopped for months following lock down. I missed them so much, I cried when they started back up again! Hope you managed to forage / find some apples. Life doesn't get any more glamorous than cistern repairs ;) Lulu xXx
DeleteHow wonderful to hear those church bells, a real sound of Sunday. I remember staying in Rye in a 14th century cottage opposite the old church and listening to the church bells on a Sunday morning - magical.
ReplyDeleteAs for the watercolour, superb, you are so talented. Thanks for taking me into a different world. All good wishes.
Thank you kindly Mike :) Church bells are an old but comforting sound. It is bonkers when people buy properties right by churches then complain about the sound!!! Lulu xXx
DeleteAh, that is a merry sound of bell-ringing. I was really lucky to watch a bell-ringing practice when I was camping in Alfriston- it was so interesting to hear AND watch! I videoed it for my Year 2's as I do a lesson on church bells!
ReplyDeleteYour watercolour is beautiful- what bonny sunflowers- so cheerful.
I meant to go and pick more blackberries yesterday but forgot! I used the last lot, along with homegrown rhubarb and some cooking apples from a 'free, help yourself' to make some yummy fruit amber which I am still eating...need to make some more whilst I still can! Love free food. The walking stick idea is genius! I must grab one when we go up to Northumberland from my MiL's garage!
Pretty Dahlia.
I wish I had room for a proper compost heap rather than my single compost plastic bin!
Hello Kezzie, I know Alfriston - lovely place - or rather, I know the pubs of Alfriston ;) Monsieur and his brother used to work in one (p.s. it was officially haunted, as is the whole of Alfriston apparently!) Our neighbour told us about the walking stick trick. He also lent us two old sticks, one being his great grannie's, that he used to use when blackberry picking as a lad. Good job on the freebie apples. Saves on scrumping. Lulu xXx
DeleteThe one thing I miss about England is the sound of church bells you don’t hear anything like that over here. Just silence in the quieter temples. And the awesome thunder gates to look at every time you enter . They always get me .
ReplyDeleteI love the watercolours the only thing I can do is draw manga with Copic markers. Still very relaxing thing to do. I love how the kids are creative with bits off nature. Even if light decided he wanted a spider as a pet which was quickly disposed of out in the street. I hate them!!
The garden has come to a dead stop as my mind has gone numb. But it will come back soon!! Take care and keep safe
Hello Allie jane. Great to hear from you. I miss sounds as much as I miss smells and sights. The temples must be quite an experience. Just had to look up 'copic markers' - my eldest would love a set of those. We're still all greatly into Studio Ghibli animes, every scene is like a painting! I recently watched an interesting mini documentary about their studio in Tokyo. The spindly spiders I can deal with, but not the mean fast running variety :0 Take care, Lulu xXx
DeleteThe sunflower painting is fabulous, and I love the church bells. My fella rings them every Sunday - not that he's religious at all but because no one else does - and I think it's such a fabulous sound. You're always busy in and around the garden and your hard work shows - and what a great way to encourage the children outside and using their imaginations! Well done Lulu xx
ReplyDeleteHello Sue, thank you m' luverly. I am very happy that non-religious people like your good fella step into ring the bells. Sundays wouldn't be Sundays without them! My local church has tried to enroll me, but I like to appreciate them from outside, where it sounds like the whole tower is alive. Now if they'd just let me have a blast on their pipe organ though..... Lulu xXx
DeleteAbsolutely delightful. What a wonderful life you lead Lulu. X
ReplyDeleteThe only gossip I've got is that I love your garden, the apples and sunflowers especially. Plus you are an amazing and inspiring artist. Now I feel like painting. X
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