Vases All Packed................

.................and then I was given a bunch of flowers.

The only thing I had still in the cupboard to put them in was a water jug. So I'll need to give it a really good clean later.

The flowers, a card and a box of chocolates were a surprise gift from the Keep Moving Exercise Group. I'd ended up doing almost everything (while a few just got out their own chair and then later sat waiting for coffee!) and as I was moving I decided to give up now rather than later. I hope it will keep going but after 4 years of hardly missing a week and too much responsibility, I'd had enough. I emailed the Village Hall treasurer to say I'd left all information about paying etc but not sure who would be taking over.

(I'm putting the chocolates into the 'being prepared' food box for winter emergency's! Much more appealing than cold baked beans!) 

On Saturday I had an email from the Village Hall Chairman asking for a contact number for who was doing the money now as they'd received no payment for last weeks Keep Moving Group. Every week for nearly four years I'd been dropping the money into the treasurer on my way home but it seems that  they didn't get organised to do this after all! 

I explained it's no longer anything to do with me!

Another Week of October

 As usual the week has rushed by and now October only has one week left. I've not been far at all as  the man from the removal company brought me a big heap of boxes so I've started packing and took two more bags of all-sorts to charity shops. Plus grandchildren's toys they've grown out of are also on their way out of the house.

The buyers of my bungalow had a survey done here during the week. We never bothered in any of our umpteen moves reckoning that Col would fix anything that goes wrong and if a property has been standing for 30 or 40 years it's not likely to fall down! And once we'd done up a very, very, old house back to it's timber frame and dirt floor anything else would be easy. 

I'd never seen a surveyor in action and I couldn't believe how long it took as he went round tapping all the walls, taking photos outside of roof and inside of ceilings and switching lights on and off as well as opening,  locking and unlocking all the doors. It's a 1983 bungalow, standard construction and really not much to go wrong - I wonder how much the buyers are being charged?  

First named storm of the season arrived yesterday. Worse in the south-west of the country, but lots of rain here then another storm arriving today, this time worse up north but with more rain forecast everywhere for later.  Almost all week has been a bit gloomy although I managed to get washing more or less dry on Thursday. Hopefully this rainy spell will help fill the reservoirs and the ground water.

Good news about a detective drama returning on BBC in November -Return to Paradise which is the Australian spin-off of Death in Paradise, will be back for a 3rd series. I've never watched Beyond Paradise which is the UK spin off as it seemed a bit silly.

 Info about the NCIS Origins series also keeps popping up, but we can't get it here for free.

Have a good weekend - hope you get power back if you lost it in the South-west and hope you don't lose electric in storm Boleo if you are in the north.

The Horse Chestnut October Photo

 I'm a bit late with the October photo and the leaves are falling and the conkers have gone.

The ground underneath the tree is covered with the conker shells but not a conker to be seen. They've been taken by squirrels I guess or children although there probably aren't many children in this village.

The leaves show signs of the disease and normal autumn changes. With windy weather forecast I guess many more leaves will be on the ground after the weekend.

All the other photos of the tree through the year are HERE.