Autumnal happenings
‘From
1st September 75- to 79-year-olds will be eligible for a free
vaccine to protect against RSV…’
If you
are like me, you have never heard of RSV, I have never been worried about it
because I did not know of its existence. Respiratory Syncytial Virus is
apparently quite common in children and older people and is like the common
cold but worse. So here we are getting ready to go to the surgery to be injected
against a disease we have never heard of. The Government website tells us that
it can be a serious disease for our age group, so we are guarding against it.
And
how do you guard against smells in your kitchen? Mr T has been making damson
chutney and the tangy smell wafts up to my study. It will soon disappear and it
is worth it because we have five jars waiting for the winter months when we
will be glad of the chutneys delicious taste with cold meat.
Our
fruit has been good this year despite (or because of) the cool summer. The
fruit trees are dripping with apples and some are ready for eating now. After
breakfast I wander down to a seat in the orchard and pick myself a big rosy
apple to eat. The wasps have not been around much this month so that is another
bonus for our fruit.
The
hedgehogs are around though. They have not been in or garden for several years,
but we saw one a week or two ago eating the fallen apples. It was a big adult
and yesterday we saw another one. This was a smaller juvenile and they seem to
be taking refuge under our store shed this year, but I can remember coming
across one hibernating in the tangled mass of our pampas grass.
Pampas
used to be very fashionable in the centre of people’s lawns and every year the
tradition was that you burnt them down after the growing season. Mine is just
beginning to show its glorious white plumes. The pampas flowers in our colder
months.
The young
hedgehog we saw recently was feeding under our bird table. We do not feed the birds in the summer months
as there is plenty to eat here but now, we look forward to seeing them at our
bird table. So far, we have seen blue tits, great tits and the robin. I often
hear the woodpecker; it has not yet appeared on the bird table. But It will
turn up like the inevitable autumn jabs.
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