10th October 2013 - Chills and Close-downs...

As the United States of America enters yet another day of shut down, and the memes are full of pictures of people breaking the American Law and enjoying walking around the closed memorial parks and gardens, the weather in the UK starts to turn towards the colder and the Autumn is with us.. Yet, today, as the weatherman says that everywhere is feeling the temperature drop, the back garden of 41 was deceptively warm. In the sun trap that is the garden, there was an opportunity today to get the power hose out and clear the patio of dog doo-doo and paths of chicken muck....    

And the result was that the shorts had to be on and the T shirt off - as the sun shone down upon us all.

And Susie found that she was able to harvest more from the garden...

And this shot shows the size of the Squashes - by comparison to the size of the large kettle.

So, America is shut, and though the garden was warm - the temperature in the house has been going down. It is clear that were we not going away for the weekend for a wedding, then we would probably be foreced to put the central heating back on .

And today was the day that the first of the power companies announced that it would increase its prices by 8%, and all the news pundits say that this is just the first of them all.

Would be a great time to be buying a wood burning stove and having a little bit of woodland to gather logs - but as we enter the third week of sale, still no nibble at all. Not an enquiry at all. So we will keep on fiddling at the edges and trying to continue the de-clutter in case someone pops their head around the door.

But tomorrow we will get the Bothy out again and head up into the wilds of Essex. The wedding will be on Saturday but due to the distance it makes sense to travel up tomorrow and spend a night in the bothy and then make use of the Hotel booking for Saturday night.

I understand that Alexander the Merekat has arrived at Plas y Mor - having made the great journey... Dor is still with us - so he will come with us to Essex, and try to keep the chill away. Forecast for the weekend is for storms and rain which would be sad for the wedding - but it is in a main building and not a tent so that will minimise the affects...  So the Chill will continue, America remains closed but we will ignore both...

Maybe a glass of scotch to finish the day....