What's October got in store for you?

[dinger]

Can you believe it's the 1st of October tomorrow? I've got birthdays coming up and the delivery of my revised copy of Mandys Fairies in about a week. Lots to do to get it out there for Christmas gifts for children and adults.I hope to be really busy.

[jazzactivist]

That's a busy October, dinger! October for me is usually quite dull, except that the students return, or start, at the Uni and I really enjoy meeting and teaching them. Strangely, I have no birthdays in October at all. I am looking forward to the colours of Autumn and the crisper mornings and nights.

[Crocus]

:eek: Hi, it's going to be quite a crazy October here! In a month's time my sister is arriving for a 2 weeks visit. House must be spring cleaned top to bottom, back to front. The boys start their end of year exams beginning of November, and lots of studying lies ahead. 2 Weeks after sister left, our very good friends will be arriving. Christmas cake must be baked, a lot of other preparations must be done in October. At this stage I wish I could turn the clock back a month or two!

[Oola]

This October it's my grandmother's 80th birthday, so we've organised a big celebration for her. She's been having a few problems lately with her arthritis and mobility, but this has seemed to have brought the sparkle back into her. She's also had the good news that she can now have her hip operation so she's really looking forward to having it sorted out!

Other than that, just lots of planning in the garden to do for next year's growing season, and lots of preparation towards Christmas (cake, cards etc) and in my work gearing up toward the Christmas market. Also looking forward to trying out lots of autumn veg recipes this month - root vegetables and things like pumpkins and butternut squash are my absolute fave foods.

[dinger]

so pleased you have found us all .I am so pleased you are having a celebration for your nan Oola I know how painful Arthritis can be so if it takes her mind away from the pain for a while it can only be good.

[Redstart]

October is going to be a busy month for us.

I starts with my Mother's 86th birthday next Friday and the monthly farmers market next Sunday. The following Sunday is the big autumn market and fair shared by this and our neighbouring village and the Saturday after that it is the is the Rottal Fest, which is an exhibition of the ecological Rottal (Rot valley) association. The Friday after that we will be getting up very early for the almost 8 hours drive (over 10 hours with coffee and lunch stops) to Zeebrugge and the overnight ferry to Hull and we will spend that last days of October with our daughter in North Wales, with a day in rural Staffordshire to take my mother out for the day (she wants to go to Bridgemere garden centre).

Oh, and sometime in OCtober our new garage (used to be a barn) will finally be finished.

So, not a quiet October for us.

[CountryLady]

October is going to be a busy month in my corner too. I forsee sparks flying from my keyboard as I type away on RuralMuse!!

[eleanor2]

mandy if you come back on here. dagfields the site of crafts antiques and bric a brac.is only 5 minutes from bridgemere.it has warehouses full of thousands of objects for sale.it is like a social history museum.worth a quick look.

[Healing Hands]

My youngest daughter is having a blessing on the 13th October. She has just got back from Malaysia yesterday. This is where they got married. I am really looking forward to the blessing and hoping that the weather will stay fine, keep your fingers crossed for us.

[CountryLady]

How lovely Carolyn! Fingers duly crossed!

[Katelb]

We have quite a burst of activity in October,next Monday is my husbands birthday,but we are celebrating it on the Sunday with a lunch party for family and friends,he is not able to sit for too long due to an arthritic spine,so it is much easier for him to be at home where he can get up and walk about if he feels the need!
The following week,I am meeting my daughter in Manchester for a day's 'baby shopping'!!and the choir that I belong to are doing 4 concerts between now and christmas and the first one is on the 17th, so we are busy rehearsing for that.I think that's all for October anyway! Kate

[eleanor2]

hi... i love your name.my daughter got married on an island by australia then came home and had a wedding blessing. we made sure the wedding blessing was as good as a real weddiing.except they arrived in an open top sports car together.with my dad doing the service.a niece playing the organ(she did the wedding march)she was only about 18 another niece read a poem.it was a beautiful day and one i will never forget.

[Katelb]

Healing Hands.
I do hope you have a wonderful day on the 13th of October,I think it's such a lovely idea having a blessing service.
I also love your name,is it descriptive of you?

[SummerSkye]

October will be busy for us. Our house has just sold and I need to organise so many things for our move back to the mainland in November. Also our weather is warming and the garden is exploding, so weeding needs to be maintained. On that note our very first asparagus spear has appeared, a sure sign of Spring.

[Ivy]

Will have a short trip to Italy with my husband after the kids had their autumn break. Lovely golden october here (I hope) and the builders repairing the roof (I hope) . Getting the garden ready for winter and lots of christmas knitting

[eleanor2]

i am catching up on posts now i know to go to page 2.noticed you are going baby shopping in manchester.i went baby shopping with my daughter there.theres that big baby shop thats a few floors high.with a cafe and play area down stairs.they do fancy baby bedrooms etc.if your going that one.i will be thinking of you.i went there for my first grandson.spent hours in there.have a llovely day.watch you dont spend to much its very tempting.

[Katelb]

Oh eleanor ,lovely to hear that you have blazed the trail as it were!! there are a couple of shops we plan to visit in Manchester then we plan to move on to the Trafford Centre;the pair of them are so organised that they seem to have got all the big stuff,nursery furniture,pram,car seat and other etc's for the nursery,so I think it will be just small things to get but I'm sure we shall both get carried away!! I am so looking forward to being a grandma,you are an old hand at it now aren't you!!

[eleanor2]

and its a lovely education.you never forget your first baby buys. i have a draw upstairs with baby grandsons clothes what they wore.i have become as soft as butter.

[Katelb]

As the new addition is due around christmas/new year,they have decided to put the car seat in the car for when they come up at christmas just in case the baby comes early;reason for this is because you can't bring the infant out of hospital --by car--- if there isn't a recognised car seat installed!! all very different from 36 years ago when my daughter was born!