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This month has gone faster than any September I can remember. We're standing on the cusp of a new month and I am conscious of not really having tamed this one yet.
I thought I had found a moment to sit and pin it down in a post, but sometimes there is no way to go back and do that and it is better to just move forward. Let's see what you've got, October.
It was Anna's pin which led me to the Korknisse pattern on Ravelry.
But it was the lure of diversionary activity, which had me knit up my version of a little cork person there and then. Because my own little person has flown the nest and headed off to France for a few days.
I used to think I was a relaxed kind of Mother, the type who is chilled about letting her offspring sally forth on the odd adventure. Turns out that is true only when it is the elder one, and I still have a chick at home to cluck over.
The French trip has stolen my baby, and I don't like it one little bit.
Though I am sure he will be having a whale of a time. And I do promise to refrain from telling him that he must never leave my side ever again.
This time last week, it was still the Summer Holidays.
The tail end always seems a little strange - the days still our own, but tinged with anticipation of what is to come. It's a notoriously scratchy period at our house - tempers a tad frayed, ready to get back to some sort of routine. To feel we are taking up the reins and getting on with life again.
And nature too has a way of reminding us that time is passing. That summer, however sweet, does not last forever.
But that every season brings its own bounty.
As a reminder to us to enjoy each new phase as it is ushered in.
Even if it can't possibly be time for that already.
Nancy taught me a good word for this moment: 'la rentrée' - hope yours was a smooth one.
