Flighty's plot

October is such a colourful, and mellow, month as you can see from these Lawn loungers posts and other links.

Allison’s autumn in northern new england really does exemplify this time of year as does this superb photo, which is one of my favourites both for the aeroplane and the stunning background.

Daffy’s delightful October Song poem and Ellie’s thoughtful Autumn notes listing both tell us what we associate with this time of year.

Earlier in the month NiC took a photo of the  LDNP oak golding, whilst yesterday Uphilldowndale wrote about the wider autumnscape in her terrific post Beautiful Day.

Yolanda reminded us that we should Let It Be in our gardens,  as doing so will really help wildlife as we head into winter. I’ve done just that on the plot  by leaving  a couple of areas alone.

The Daily Telegraph’s Autumn colours around Britain is a wonderful selection of autumnscapes.

Enjoy the rest of Chocolate Week, and have a good weekend!

As always it was good to see friends, and fellow bloggers, join in last Thursday’s National Poetry Day.

Here, in no particular order, are the ones I read with a wide-ranging selection of self-penned, or quoted, poems about Heroes and Heroines.

I was pleased to see that Daffy, always a keen participant, managed to support the event with this very personal poem.

Veg Plotting choose some lyrics rather than a conventional poem for a rather interesting take on the day.

Blog.co.uk has it’s fair share of poets as I came across these three terrific entries. La Spice’s welcome contribution was  Unsung heroes,  Jenray’s Ghosts is a powerful thought-provoking poem and Banana did the rather more unusual Heroes/Heroines.

Two people who decided to join in this year were Chrisb who quotes a very familar poem and Carrie who choose this wonderful favourite one.

Nikki’s God’s doors was a most welcome, and thoughtful entry.

I wish that I could have included one more that I read but it was a for friends only post. The friend who wrote it has been seriously ill and recently had a major operation, which I’m glad to see appears to have been completely successful. The poem is about her surgeon who she understandably considers to  her personal hero.

My thanks to you all for your heroic contributions and I look forward to seeing you again next year!

If I’ve missed anyone then do please let me know by commenting here and I’ll happily edit the post to include you.

As a footnote over on Allotments 4 All I asked if anyone had any gardening heroes and heroines!  The responses included a blackbird and robin, Geoff Hamilton,  grandad and Bill and Ben (the Flower Pot Men)!

is the theme of today’s National Poetry Day.

I like that and feel that this poem,  about one of aviation’s most famous heroines Amelia Earhart,  is a good choice.

Amelia by Gill Robb Wilson, 1938

Somewhere a fin on a lazy sea

And a broken prop on a coral key,

Somewhere a dawn whose morning star

Must etch dim light on a broken spar,

Somewhere a twilight that cannot go

Till it kisses the surf with afterglow;

But here, only silence and weary eyes

And an empty hangar and empty skies.

Somewhere the toss of a tousled head

In the secret of the angels overhead,

Somewhere a smile that would never fade

As the score reversed in the game she played,

Somewhere a spirit whose course held true

To do the thing that it wished to do;

But here, only silence and weary eyes

And an empty hangar and empty skies.

On this  Sofa flying blog I’ve linked to the poem Antoine by Dave Nicholls which is about the famous flyer and writer Antoine Saint Exupery, and on this  one I’ve done Ode to My Hero by David A.Morris.

Over the weekend I’ll do a further related post More Heroes and Heroines here mentioning and linking to friends, and fellow bloggers, who have joined in the fun today and did a post, and maybe even a poem, of their own.

is National Poetry Day with the theme Heroes and Heroines.

This is to let you know that, as last year, I shall be doing a celebratory post including linking to friends who join in the fun with a post of their own.

Last year self-penned poems included ones by  Daffy, Glo (Porcelain Rose) and Veg Plotting. However if you’re like me and don’t write poetry then still join in by quoting, or linking  to, an appropriate favourite.