Getting colder

Just got in from a lovely walk along the beach and into a nearly deserted town. It's been a beautiful blue-sky day but the wind became really chilly so we have had another attempt at lighting the fire, and hey presto, it has worked like a dream with no smoke coming into the living room this time (see above for the proof). It's a good job really as we have ordered quite a bit of wood to be delivered for the beginning of November. We'll be experts by then!

The other two photos show how the garden is coming on - you can see the cabbage, cauli and lettuce plants that we bought and in the background we have spinach, lamb's lettuce and parsley all now showing through but not ready for thinning out yet. We seem to be attracting quite a few birds into the garden (steady now!!) as we regularly put feed out for them. We even have TWO robins, one of whom has decided it likes flying into our bedroom, even leaving a small deposit once. Needless to say we no longer leave the windows wide open as we used to!

Had another go on the pressure washer yesterday, this time cleaning the boundary walls on the front of the house. They look a lot better now. We need to think about the boundary walls on the back of the house as they are made of breeze-block and are NOT very attractive!