Mollie

Meet Mollie

Aka Pretty Pebbles.

A brilliant journey home, licked, played and slept on my lap.

We got out of the car at home and she pooed.

How brill is that!

She is gorgeous.

We just managed to find the KP toy - she loves it.

Winter Wonderland

I intended to post photos of the garden in the frost but it was too cold to go outside so, here is a photo of Th's shoe colllection instead, taken in the warm, after school.

I had my eyes checked by my consultant and my teeth checked today.

All in good nick so I can continue seeing what I'm eating.

Great!

B gave me this bag, in case I forget my position in society.

Bye bye Honda.....

 Why is it that anything mechanical starts to work brilliantly and suddenly has new switches and facilities than you had ever realised when you come to sell it?

Queueing up to view/buy the Honda, over 30 watchers and 5 offers so far.

Chap with a trailer coming later so hopefull that I will only own one mower by this evening.

I was standing looking at this view yesterday morning when a cat flew across the lawn from top left, followed by a large fox.

He saw me half way across the lawn and slunk back the way he had come.

Cold weather has arrived so the garden is looking Novemberish.....

The blackbirds haven't attacked the pyracantha berries.....yet

The next time that you see this it will be vertical/the front gate to prevent Mollie from chasing into the road after other mammals.

A little more fencing to be done before M day.....Friday.

I already have an offer of a spouse when she reaches the age of consent - a rather fine black cocker spaniel!

Could be fun.

Should I cut the hydrangea flowers for the house?

Anyone want a fine oak painted chest with brass drop handles?

In to warm up before e baying.

Currently planning. Bonfire Night dinner menu for tonight  - slow roast pork with roast veg and special baked potatoes followed by steamed ginger & pear pudding with toffee sauce.

I did try to get indoor sparklers to put in the starters but couldn't find any.

Done & dusted....

Housework for over four hours this morning, downstairs is all done apart from steam cleaning the tiled floors.
The dining room is back to it's normal self, minus a few decorative features, having been unused during the summer as we eat in the "morning room", China and glassware from Shardelows on the table whilst decisions were made about what to keep and how to dispose of the rest - Hansons or
e bay.
E bay has had much better returns by far, I suppose that it has a bigger audience and longer to decide whether or not to buy.

A great weekend with the family here, pumpkin lanterns and cakes made.
The new mower arrived and T made a pretty good job of the lawns with some tuition and after I'd done around the edges and the fiddly bits.
Flies round and cuts/picks up leaves well.
Out to Solihull and Kenilworth yesterday visiting and doing jobs
Lots or things to put on e bay when time allows, tomorrow I hope but already a couple of other duties have arisen
10 days before Mollie comes home!

Happy Birthday J

from the rest of the family, all at Granny's overnight.

The new mower has arrived - brilliant.

A wider cut, high speed and easy to empty the bins.

We mowed the lawns/picked up the leaves for the last time on Friday - T did half, the middle half - and it made such a good job that no leaves had dared to fall since.

The weather is unseasonably warm, 13degrees yesterday evening.

T & KP put to work yesterday., swept the yard, packed & priced goods then helped set up the stall in the village hall, ready for today's extravaganza.

Clocks back last night, we'll only one here, so far, so up and about at 7.30am and feeling good.

Mollie proofed!

After two days of men & machine the garden and paddock are "stock proofed", all this to prevent the escape of a tiny little spaniel who I feel sure will want to stay close to home at least , for a while.

It will keep the chickens in and, perhaps deter the fox.

The corner of the garden, perhaps would have looked like an interesting exit....

The last bit of brick wall remaining that was a circular air raid shelter, like a pixie house.

All a bit autumnal despite 11 degrees today.