Happy Monday!

It feels like September is nearly over; autumn is relentless and I am tired. Other than that, it’s all good.

The liturgical year is currently in ‘ordinary time’. It’s not called ordinary because it’s dull, but because it’s counted.  (The name comes from the Latin ordinalis, which refers to numbers in a series, its where we get the word order from too).  So Ordinary time is the ordered life of the Church outside of feast (Christmas or Easter) and expectation and reflection (Advent and Lent).  I’m in ‘ordinary time’ at the moment. I’m adjusting to Autumn and ‘caring’ for Ma but there are no major highs or lows, it’s ordinary and routine and that pretty much sums up last week. Ok, there was Tuesday, when I tried to recycle my keys but my being scatty and a bit brainless before 10am is ordinary.

Ma and I visited the Farmer’s Market in Surbiton on Saturday and I bought all the cheese! I got the number of ripening tomatoes down to one tray but I do need to go and do another pick today (after the rain) and there are about 5 kg of tomatoes in the freezer that I’ll process later in the year.

This week is much the same, I’m in the office tomorrow and Wednesday, there’s the EDAS AGM on Thursday. (After some consultation with plotholders, the Pumpkin Walk will go ahead on 26^th October, I will be serving mulled wine to the masses and ticket sales will start soon, please do come along if you’re local, the tickets fee is nominal so we can keep the numbers containable.)

Because we’re nearly done with September (only 7 more days) my thoughts are slowly turning to October, which while not frantic is busier than September has been. There is stuff happening in three of the four weekends and sometimes a couple of things happening. So it’s going to be busy. But this week is still ‘ordinary time’, and I’m really grateful for it…

Have a good week.