Reading #TheLandInWinter, #AndrewMiller #Booker nominated novel & just found this, which so resonates with me: ‘All winter you hold yourself like a fist, a tension you’re hardly aware of until the first warm day when you lift your face to the sun…It was far too early to start dreaming of summer’

Good morning early birds! Just for a little while, I’ve swapped grey skies for blue, slipping away from English late autumn for its kinder, Mediterranean cousin! Wishing you the best of days, whatever the weather

Good morning super-super early birds! Every day the trees are shedding more and more leaves revealing more of their true selves, but how about we start the day with this picture from a few weeks ago when they were all aglow in their autumn finery…as I trust you also will be today!

Good morning! Wishing you a peaceful, happy, fulfilling day ahead!

Bloke came to quote on some work in the house today. Chatting, he told me that Margaret Thatcher’s name had come up in conversation at his home & seeing his kid looking blank, he asked if she knew who she was. Kid: ‘Was she one of Henry VIII’s wives?’ 😂

Good morning lovely people and a very happy, hopeful new week to you!

Good evening Blue Sky peeps!

Good morning Sunday early birds! Wishing you a joyful and productive day!

Today’s obsession! It will also be tomorrow’s obsession, but only if I manage to begin rationing #OtherPeoplesFun, the haunting, thrilling and positively delicious new novel by @harrietlane.bsky.social! How I’ve missed her exquisite style!

Good morning autumnal early birds! A happy, peaceful Friday to you!

Good morning dear hearts! Starting the day with some gorgeous autumn colour from a lovely afternoon at Kew yesterday. A fabulous Thursday to all!

Good morning dear Blue Sky peeps! I hope you are leaping from your beds with an insatiable hunger to light up the day (like a firework)! Me, I’m a bit fragile: awake at insane o’clock, all limbs aching! Oh no! What’s up? Then remember I had covid jab yesterday & so I’m aching, but hugely grateful!

Good morning lovely people! People often advise ‘Look up!’, but even now, in deepest autumn, new life is peeking through if we look down! Here’s to a fresh new day full of possibilities!

Only a handful of chapters into reading #NotesOnYourSuddenDisappearance & I’m already immersed & in love with this new novel by #AlisonEspach. Family life writ large with great tenderness, warmth, inevitable sadnesses & fabulous observations. Thanks so much for my copy @francesca.main.bs.social ❤️

Good morning dearest Blue Sky people! It’s Monday, it’s a grey sky day, it’s November…you’ll be needing some flowers! Have a beautiful day!

Good night Blue Sky friends! See you on a fresh, new week!

Good morning beautiful people! Hope Sunday unfolds at your most ideal pace

November already! Scarcely seems possible! Good morning feisty weekend early birds! Have an impossibly, unfeasibly fabulous day!

Just got absolutely drenched in the rain (thunder & lightning too)! Now, cosily indoors, a very hot-buttered-toast kind of evening beckons!

Awoke to Halloween after sleeping deeply & dreaming of summer. I don’t care what season it is as long as there are flowers! Have a beautiful last day of October!

Please take 10 seconds to contact your MP for a proper ban on hunting with hounds: protectthewild.org.uk/endhuntingnow/

Awake to the most unexpected and so exponentially lovely birdsong and there’s the day’s first point of gratitude before my eyes are scarcely open! I hope your day is liberally scattered with happy surprises!

06.35 and just a very narrow streak of sunrise in an otherwise heavily clouded dawn sky.

Unsolicited informal weather update: the sky has become ominously gun metal grey & at 2.30pm I need the light on to read! I’d better brew up to set the scene completely!

The loveliest thing happened as I was queuing in a local shop: Woman: Are you a piano teacher? Me: No! Her: I just know yr face Me: Could it be from the bookshop where I used to work? Her: OMG yes! You’re Danny and you got my reluctant reader son into books. He’s a bookworm now! MY DAY IS MADE! 🥰

Because what’s wrong with a little enthusiasm?? I’m a huge fan!!! 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Good morning! I’m so glad to be an early bird whatever the season or weather, even, and in fact especially, if I’m on holiday: I love these moments in the day when everything’s still and quiet and there’s all that potential to unfold! Hope your day unfurls fabulously!

It’s hunkering down o’clock! Night night Blue Sky friends!

Such a loss! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Good morning beautiful people! Another day on this beautiful planet!

Night night Blue Sky people! Time to cosy down!

That thing when you wake in the dark…even though the clocks have just gone back! Take heart, feisty autumnal early birds, there are rumours of golden sunshine ahead! Good Monday morning everyone!

My daughter ordered a cup of tea in a cafe. This is what she received! The horror!!

Good morning autumnal friends! I mostly consider myself reasonably intelligent, but, even so, I racked my ‘brains’ last night trying to work out how the clocks going back actually works! Yes, obvs, it’s lighter in the morning (🙂) but darker sooner in the evening (😢). Let’s say cosy instead of dark!

Good morning! Today we have the very best that autumn can deliver: bright blue sky, golden leaves and the air crisp as an apple! Wishing you a glorious day!

Good morning early birds! One of the best things about it no longer being spring or summer ( and there are v few such things) is that when we get a sunny day, it’s so, so precious…and today is rumoured to be exactly that! Hope it shines wherever you find yourself this Friday!

I'm thrilled, I saw my first ever Ring Ouzel late this afternoon! 😀😍 It's amazing that this beauty turned up at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset, as they usually only stop off on migration on high ground, such as The Mendip Hills.🐦 It put on a great show as it feasted on berries! 😍 #birds 🪶

Good morning lovely people! The temperature might be plummeting, but autumn can still parade her beauty when she wants to! I hope your day unfolds wonderfully!

Thank you, beautiful nerines, for adding a dash of gardening solace right now!

Good morning autumnal friends (or spring pals if you inhabit more southerly climes). Here’s a splash of seasonal colour, via a gift bought for a chum’s birthday! Hope your midweek is bursting with lovely things!

‘Our culture’s ageism tells us that old women are invisible’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good morning Blue Sky friends! The days are palpably shortening, which I can’t say I like one bit, but the roses are hanging on in there, so who am I to complain? Have the best and most beautiful day that you can!

Such a fab reading list…and not just for troubled times either! Tonnes of my favourites here, but also plenty to explore! Thanks @lissakevans.bsky.social !

Good morning and welcome to audible weather season (aka stay at home with a good book and a cup of tea season) Happy new week, wishing you well whatever your weather and hoping your plans for the day come together beautifully

Good morning autumnal angels! Looks like today’s bounty of fallen leaves will be of the soggy rather than scrunchy variety! Oh-well-it’s-good-for-the-garden blah blah. Welcome to a grey, but hopefully cosy, Sunday! Wishing you a peaceful, happy day!

Good morning lovely people! I’m forever a Spring & Summer girl, but even I can see it’s pointless being cross with Autumn when she clearly knows a thing or two about beauty too! Wishing you a happy, hopeful glass-half-full day!

Good morning early birds! I’m home after a very happy holiday…but almost fear going into my garden! Anything could have happened (or indeed not happened) so rather than a pic from today, here’s some flowers from more reliable gardening days! Wishing you a golden day!