When asked my thoughts for October my mind immediately turns to Provence and my daily life there…
October is generally a kind of in-between month… a real reminder that summer is over and winter is approaching…
A point on the calendar where we start thinking of the holidays, of Christmas… the month when we accept that the year has rapidly vanished…
and that we have less not more..
October on the farm is a waiting time… for me it is about the olives…
Watching them turn colour… seeing their khaki green skins brighten and then turn dark as they make their journey towards maturity…
We guard them like hawks… aware that the dreaded fruit fly can take them out in one foul attack…
We plan for the harvest…prepare our equipment and co-ordinate our workers…
We are poised for November..
October is the month to pick our apples… to make compote and jams… to make juice…
It is the time when we pack our summer life away… and our outside world disappears until next year…
I say goodbye to swimming and I welcome long walks…
Red wine over rosé…
Slow cooking and hearty are the culinary terms I think of… vegetables, replace salads… fruit tarts insted of ice creams…
Cosy is where I want to be…
I light the fires and the scented candles… pull out the throw rugs and add the duvets to our beds…
Kitchen suppers are my choice… picnics seem to be forgotten…
Inside comes alive… our farmhouse laps up the attention after months of outdoor living…
The pace of life starts to slow… the evenings are longer… there is time to catch up on films…
October… now I think about it… I like it… xv
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