Happy Halloween & October Updates

Another month gone and we are properly into autumn now. Temperature has finally dropped, though we are still in double digits for the most part. Good Old British WeatherWe had a couple of impressive storms pass through, back-to-back, last weekend. Heavy winds that did surprisingly little damage but whooshed eerily around the house as we slept. I was nervous about the massive plane tree that sits behind us in the graveyard, especially as a branch came off about 10 feet away just as the first storm rolled in. Another (from the ash tree this time) narrowly missed the hen house. But that was it. So now it’s all quiet again and everywhere is covered in leaves as is normal for this time of year. I’m not going to bother sweeping the driveway as that will be a pointless exercise. Tree RemovalWe did a bit more gardening this week. The row of leylandii behind the house has now been completely removed, including a particularly tall one that was touching the eaves and blocking a fair bit of…