Winter storage

This, the biggest tree in the garden, is a favourite of the local woodpeckers and nuthatches for winter food storage.  This is also the only photo I took today that wasn't for the purposes of that planning application (still not in, but the 'cut-through' drawing has been traced off the computer screen and is ready to go!)

Every now and then it is ok, I think, to have a day when most of your to-do list just carries over to tomorrow.  I read some of my book, did some shopping, read a million interesting things on the internet (normally I hide in the Guardian and BBC websites, but turns out there's some other stuff out there that's quite fun) and did not have any interaction with Signora Stuffe.

However, the shed arrived (about 6 hours earlier than predicted, and so while I was having my traditional Wednesday morning lie-in) so there was also some shed-paint research on-line.  Including a pledge to NEVER again even so much as look at the Leroy Merlin website.  How can you sell paint if you only have one tin of each type?  Seriously, who has an outside wood painting project that needs less than 24m2 of paint?

In wildlife news, a very large possibly-buzzard-possibly-eagle in the garden, and a kestrel too.  And a dragonfly buzzed by at 4pm.  Not every November you see that.  (Sunny and hot.)