My little crab apple tree is really weighed down with fruit, I'm thinking about branch removal before any snap. I'm going to make some crab apple jelly when they're ripe, but if I use all that fruit I'll have to set up a shop!

Some garden pottering was done, planting the white scabious bought last week and starting the removal of the dozens of Lady's Mantle plants that have sprung up. I like it, but not that much.

Then I forced myself out for a walk. I was going to do the 6 mile circuit, but could see from afar that there were cows in a field the footpath goes through... so I turned around and did the 4 miler instead.

I got round to messaging Chatterbox John about his ankle and shoulder injuries, but he declined, not surprisingly, to tell me about his prostate cancer, which I only knew about from someone on the last Ramblers walk I did. I'd delayed messaging him so he didn't put two and two together, but at least he knows I care.... but not in that way!

Autumnal scene in the extra, but a bit early really.