Readers of my blog since 2007 will know that every year I quote from the War of the Worlds, Justin Haywards song..

Forever Autumn. This beautiful song invokes so many memories for me but always seems to best describe this month where an Indian type Summer can lead into a full on Autumn where colours truly do stand out… enjoy

well the lads have been out doing the Hedgecutting now it is the appropriate time, looing very smart and tidy I must say – well done boys.

Meantime, I am trying to keep up with the smorgasboard of choice of different types of apples in the Orchard…

well the flies are still bad here and not looking to get castrates done just yet… meantime Pony Power

Winter is coming, the days are shorter, the nights cooler and… we are all stocked up ready!

NO – we do not have Flystrike, nor never have here but it is the time for it folks, especially those considering castration – wait a few more weeks until they have gone.

meantime – if you seal the end of these fringes by singing them with a blow torch (hubby of course) then they do not fray and frazzle at the ends…

still on the holiday theme, we did manage to grab a bite in Malmesbury, the Bird Cage I think it was called, very modern and snazzy… I had a whacky Pizza but unfortunately overcooked for my liking…

and whilst I was cooking at home en famille with our home grown chillies…

what should pop over the horizon to end the day but a Hot Air Balloon LOL

great form of advertising !

well hubby took a week off to paint the cabin – as you do – but we did get time out… visiting George Vets in Malmesbury LOL

The Abbey is fantastic in Malmesbury and no I did not go into the Naked Gardens but the town is pretty with its market place and stalls along the high street – even selling Chillies but a different colour to ours !

sometimes you take pictures that need no words and just say all they need to say…

an evening chat between horse and dog checking the Alpaca, the difference in hoof sizes, what the Alpaca think of the old marketing signs and the sunset on an unknown road…

Welcome to September 2018.

What better way to celebrate than to exhibit our Plum haul from August from the Orchard we planted in 2012?

ALL PICKED and stored for jam making in winter time, yum yum.

Indian Summer here we come…