Yesterday it still felt like it was the 1st of January, really it seems like it, how have we reached the end of October? My daughter is very excited about Halloween and it is like Siberia out in the yard, with a vicious East Wind, it seems like Summer never happened. Everyday is leafgate (what I like to call the daily battle with blowing the leaves off the drive and the school, like we have time, but our OCD is such that it cannot be ignored) and it seems like the clippers

Brrrrr, today we had the first frost and what a shock to the system it was! In some ways it's comforting to be able to layer up again, however by the time I had mucked out the fifth box, I was down to a t shirt, then when I had finished the 8 boxes I was so warm I didn't put the layers back on. Half an hour later I'm shivering again. It's no wonder we are all constantly ill, back on the lemsip again, not to mention the monumental drenching we have been getting on a near dai