Further evidence for climate change! I got up this morning (10th October) looked out the window and decided that it was a 'shorts day'. And so it proved to be, the sun shone all day out of a relatively cloudless sky and was accompanied by a gentle southerly breeze which got all of the washing dry!
I spent most of my day starting to lay up a store of firewood for the winter. My very kind brother-in-law had sawn up a tree some time ago which he didn't need so he offered it to me. After collecting it this morning I put the log splitter on the tractor - for the first time in about 3 years - and started splitting. That machine certainly beats using an axe!
While I was doing that Mo got another booking for the Blackthorn Cottage AND got her first day of supply teaching for the year (tomorrow) -I'm still waiting for mine! I must say that, with the cottages being so busy right through September, we haven't gone looking for teaching but the income would be quite welcome now.
Mo says that I need to use the spell checker before I publish - I wonder why! Apologies for the earlier mistakes - if I can work out how to do it I'll go back and correct them.
Had things worked out a little differently we would be busy packing this week and heading for NZ on Monday where my niece is getting married on the 21st. Alas it wasn't to be but NI will be more than adequately represented by my two sisters and my cousin Jim. One of my sisters had a dream last night that we were at the wedding - by this time next week we will know if it was prophetic or not.