Everywhere we've been this week, we've seen dozens and dozens of starlings swirling around waiting for the right moment (how do they know when is the right time?) to fly to Spain for the winter. I don't know if it's my imagination but they seem late this year - staying and enjoying the last of our summer sunshine.

In my last few days in the office before this holiday my colleagues and clients all looked at me in horror when I told them we were going to Cornwall - they thought it was madness to go in the 'winter'. How wrong they were to mock. This weather is perfect, cold overnight but gorgeous warm sunshine in the day. Just look at the blue of the sky. (Not saturated in photoshop by the way.)

Today has been a day of animals - starlings and buzzards during the day and rabbits at night....my day began before dawn when I took Colin to Newquay airport (a Nissen hut at the end of RAF St Mawgan's runway) to catch his RyanAir flight to Stanstead for 1 penny!!!! Not bad huh? The rabbits were all over the lawn as I left for the airport, again when I got back and again this evening.

Archie barked in the night - not continuously but sporadically - we decided it must be the group of four rabbits in spangly suits doing a rendition of 'Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel' by Tavares on the windowsill then running away to watch him bark! There was even one with a trumpet popping up...

Time to get off the cornish cider I think! (Not really, we didn't touch a drop of the stuff all week!)