Apologies - absent without leave - hope I am forgiven!

There is still a lot of colour in your garden. The windy storm earlier in the week stripped all the Oak and Ash in the park of their leaves, blowing them onto my grass and into the pond. Such a warm wind yesterday, dry enough to mow the grass, including the leaves. Job done!

We didn't get the wind apart from one day last week. Lots of rain, in fact rained so hard that I had to have the wipers on full pelt last Monday afternoon, the roads were horrendous for driving in, lots of water stood like lakes on the roadsides, so dangerous for driving in. Dry since but the ground is soggy would not be able to cut grass here.

Crikey, you did work hard on the leaf clearing Barbara!

Love the birthday cake, it will definitely be popular with the children ... :o)

We had a really windy night, a few days after storm Angus, and the roof felt on the summer house had been ripped off. All ship-shape now though :o)

I had Lottie as nov. 25th in my little birthday book! Lol...you'd better put me right. Still...at least I wasnt late!

29th Karen, lol. We are taking her to Pink Pig Farm for a treat as its on Tuesday and Sarah is at work. Hopefully it will stay fine.

Glad you are sorted Shirley, nasty weather we have had lately. Hope we do not get any more storms but think that might be wishful thinking.

Oh, ok...not too bad then! Only four days! On the right side!

Wondered where you had got to!! at least you have made a good start on the leaves, before the next lot lol
love the cake, I can remember when some of our grandchildren were in to Peppa Pig.........I am sure it will be well received.

thanks Dd I am sure she will love it. Leaves just starting to fall again. lol. ah well another sweep up day next week.

Multi tasking going on here and all of of it very successful! Your garden is looking fine so no need to overdo it! I bet the cakes went down well too!

Everyone loves the look of the cake but no one has tried it yet lol its for Tuesday tea time so hope it hasn't dried out before then. lol. Thanks for looking in Wildrose, good to be back. :O)

It all looks good, Barbara! I've been absent for months - apologies and reasons in my latest blog. The leaves are all over the place here. I got up as much as I could, (with help from my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter) because our last green bin collection was last week! Not sure what I'll do with the rest, but the two empty bins will be full to bursting by the time they are next emptied, in March. We had an unusually heavy frost here yesterday and the day before - it was very pretty, and not as cold as it looked because there was virtually no wind, again unusual. Yet today it's comparatively mild! Oh well, it makes life interesting!

Melchi we are very lucky here, We do not need green bin collectors here we pile ours into the wood to rot down and then we can use it for compost eventually. May take a couple of years though so we have to be patient. lol. Glad you have a little helper, do not think I would dare let Lottie loose on leaves she is a nightmare in muddy puddles she would never pick up any leaves but would have lots of fun throwing them all over the place. lol. She is going to be two on Tuesday so maybe next year I will dare to let her have a go. lol. They are so much fun though at this age. Grandad says she is a NIGHTMARE! but we all know he doesn't mean it. lol.

Ha ha! I sympathise about the muddy puddles! Lenora is not yet strong enough to turn the tap on the water butt, but loves me to fill her little watering can from it. Inevitably, the water is tipped out in a flash - and she much prefers to be taken through the side gate to have it filled from the butt in the front garden (of course). William, who is 4, and very dextrous, manages the tap with ease. He likes to leave it running and watch it flow across the path into the drain...? All good clean fun, though. Well, comparatively clean...

Ah love it Melchi. We had a fab day at Pink Pig Farm it was brilliant animals and fun/play barn and a café, Lottie was worn out by the time we left for home and fell fast asleep before we had done two miles on our homeward journey. lol. When she saw the cake she was very happy and knew exactly what it was all about, she got very excited.

Glad you found time to pop in and show us your autumnal garden - but I don`t envy you having to deal with all those leaves - however, there`s plenty of leaf mulch to be made and as you say you just throw it in the wood and wait. Bet you enjoyed the day out as much as Lottie and I can just imagine the deligh on her little face when she saw that cake.