The moles are winning!

Top lawn:

Side lawn, this one was digging whilst I was taking the photo:

Frontage:

Party packs, compare with Johnsons Sun cream bottle.

Time for Arthur and even more traps!

Put to bed for the winter:

Hanging baskets down, bone dry as lacking water for the last two weeks.

The manger survived...for the moment.

Creepers and honeysuckle cut down to reveal the Windows again - 3 large barrow loads and more to come on a less windy day.

She'd tidied and ready to use.

Tree house tidied and battened down.

Back to normal

Lots done today in preparation for the Blythe Hall Coffee Morning - begging letters out!

Followed by a trip to Solihull for coffee at Pret with Jan and a potter around the shops.

Latest acquisition, an iconic George Nelson vitreous clock from the 1950s.

Beat that!

Happy Birthday Mum....

yesterday actually, but I fell asleep before I got round to blogging, having spent the afternoon mowing the lawns of two weeks growth. Never easy.

We have had a great couple of weeks in Southern Italy, Rome, Naples, to pick up a little car then a week in the wilds of the Cilento National Park, then across the Apennines to Venosa for a couple of days, a delightful little medieval town, back to Naples, Rome and home.

Brilliant, photos to follow.

Two days at home, washing, cleaning, gardening and all is back to normal.

Now busy planning a Coffee & Cakes Morning at Blythe Hall on 22 October for church - ticket printing and sales and the begging for raffle prizes.

Mum was born in 1909 so would have been 107 - we were surprise twins born to middle aged parents!