Monday morning walk

After wet and windy weekend, Monday at last calmed down, so we decided to go for little longer walk, 

to the town's park. Still very dull day, so the pictures are not very sharp.

 Our walk takes us past some interesting buildings, like The Anglo Trading Estate.

Now home to various small businesses, it was built in 1864, originally as a brewery -

Anglo-Bavarian Brewery Co.Ltd , later - around the time of WWI - the "Bavarian" part was dropped from its name.

Next we come to St Peter & St Paul's Church, which dates to 12th century, although parts of the church date to 11th century, before the Norman Conquest. The main part of the church as it stands now was built in 15th century.

From here it is not too far to the Collett Park. It is quite a large park for the size of the town, and it is beautiful here in the summer. Little sad looking now, because all the trees have lost their leaves during the recent horrid weather.

The park was given to the town in 1906 by a local resident. 

There is a nice story attached to this:

"The Park was gifted to the town of Shepton Mallet, by John Kyte Collett in 1906. It is believed that as a boy, John Collett, was told off for playing in the fields that were privately owned at the time. After many years the land started to be auctioned off and John Collett accumulated several lots of land and presented them as a gift to the town as the park that we know and love. Every year we hold Collett Festival in the Park to celebrate the giving of this wonderful gift."

Sadly this year's Music & Food Festival had to be cancelled, as so many other things.

By the time we walked around the park, it started to rain again, so a quick walk back followed - we had our exercise for the day!                

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Friday

and time for another get together at Cheryll's for FNwF.   

Thank you , Cheryll , for getting us together again!

Friday turned out a busy day; after very, very wet October at last we had a couple of lovely dry and bright days (and frosty nights) this week to tidy up the garden and get it ready for winter. By the end of the day we cut back what needed it, rake all the leaves blown in from next door's  HUGE beach tree.

This is a view from my sewing room.

We decided to re -plant one of the beds, which was full of dahlias this year; very nice they looked, but 

they took over and our garden is just too small for anything to be allowed to "take over"!

Now it has a couple of new rose bushes from David Austin and a selection of perennials, some for early spring colour. 

There is still some colour holding on, this abutilon shrub will flower until Christmas, 

may be even longer.

I love the autumn colours of the Persian Ironwood shrub, growing in the large pot just outside our kitchen window; still very young, it will get much larger .

Back inside I stitched a couple more of 3 inch log cabins, 

these will form a border around the central panel of Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt - there is a very slow progress on this one.....

In the evening I managed to make two more squares for Tobermory blanket, 

before it was time to watch more of "DNA", 

Danish crime drama - subtitled of course, so no stitching 😀

We are now in the second lockdown, so our news are full of that;

 now that our American friends have sorted themselves out, the distraction of their elections has now gone as well.

Looking forward to Christmas? May be - we are supposed to spend it at our daughter's house, but we are also slowly filling our freezer with goodies we like, in case it ends up being just two of us; need to stock up with few more books as well.

I wish you all well, have a good week!

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