Early start today meant a bit of an early finish. I skipped(! .....obviously feeling more cheery then) up the garden to get some tomatoes from the greenhouse and saw these popping up among the fallen leaves. This is it then - long nights, short days, only seeing the house in daylight at weekends (apart from an odd day like today).

It gladdened my heart to think there are toadstools at the bottom of the garden because that means there are fairies too, looking over us and keeping us safe from harm. Perhaps I could put in a small request to our magical, winged friends.....PLEASE, PLEASE can you wave your wand over Brockenhurst Road and see that sale through. It's not because I'm greedy, just because I want a normal life back, you know, one where it's OK to impulse buy a pair of shoes or pop down the pub for a few beers or take a holiday somewhere hot. Just because I want to only have to worry about burglars, vandals or maintenance problems for one house, not two....