Slug and snail mansion.

It's has been very quiet. Just gloom, rain and fog, quite thick fog.
A friend was moaning about an owl in the trees near her,calling to its mate, told her to send them over to me, I have them anytime.
If my house had a name I'd call it it the slug and snails mansion. Yep they are back, but to be honest I don't mind. The other day a slug was having an argument with one of my cats,don't worry the cat wasn't hurting it,just sitting quietly looking  at it.
At the moment it's sunny.

Not sure.

Not sure about the clocks going back an hour, the afternoons getting dark early and the mornings lighter, still not sure.
The street lamps where I live  are not working and it is so dark, we have only got the lights from the houses shining but that's all the light we have got, a call to the council will be needed. You need a torch at the moment. A plus though you can see the stars twinkling.
Was going to dig up the mums up but they are budding again. Was going to put the spring bulbs in , but haven't got round to do it. That's a job for the next week.

Allotment & container growing.

Dull start , then the sun came out.
Friend's cacti have put on an excellent show again, they have got cacti fingers.
Their allotment has now been dugged over  ready for the next lot of planting, not sure what they are going to grow this time, but I do know runner beans are going to be grown again.
I have decided that I am going to to do container growing next year, so I am going to get myself all the things I need now and be ready to start. Not sure what to grow, but will start small and easy.

Winter won't be long.

Went on my regular train journey but at a different time, late afternoon,dusk time. The countryside looks so different , brooding at this time of year. Saw loads of rabbits amongst the sheep, saw a large herd of white cattle, they stuck out like a sore thumb against the dusk.
Today went on an other train trip and saw partridges in the fields.
The hills were covered in a mist and there was a slight drizzle, no wind everything was still, a lot of the red berries have gone. The wild blackberries seemed to of shrivelled up and are going into their winter sleep. The apples trees seem to be doing the same.
It won't be long and winter will be here and the clocks are going back this weekend. Then we know winter won't be long.

After the winds.

After the high winds, there was not much damage. The beech tree lost some branches, but apart from that nothing else happened.its still windy but not as bad as it has been.
Just piles of leaves here there and everywhere . You cannot crunch through them as they are damp, shame.
The slugs and snails seemed to gone into hiding not seen them the past couple of nights. The ants nest is still there .

Very windy.

Very windy,no rain at all at the moment. Was told that the bad weather is coming down our way later this afternoon.
The beech and sweet chestnut leaves have been blown into the front garden, I live on a very windy corner. So at the moment it's crunch crunch time walking up the path.
Sun keeps popping out and then hiding behind the clouds. It's playing peek a boo.

Magpie and moon.

Found a dead bird on the pavement so I put it on the grass out of people's ways , as there was no where else to put it. I normally cannot handle dead animals but had to for this poor bird.We then was driving along when a magpie decided to fly under the car from the bonnet to the boot. We heard a thud so, so we stopped as soon as we could safely could and the other half looked under the car and saw nothing no bird anywhere, I thought he was seeing things at first, but I heard the thud. So we assumed it flew right under the car as we looked back to where it happened and saw no magpie.
This morning I woke up in the early hours and saw it was pitch black, then all of a sudden the moon came out and shone a soft pale glow. ,to be honest I didn't realise what light comes from the moon as it lit up quite a bit, it's something I took for granted.