Professor Yaffle Takes Up Residence

Today's images were taken on the way back from our local pub after a couple of pints, pizza and skinny fries. The main image is in the delightfully designed front garden of one of the cottages in my home village of Aylesford.
 The ornamental bird reminds me of Professor Yaffle - one of the characters from the seminal children's TV series Bagpuss created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate. In the programme a little girl named Emily owns a shop containing lost and broken things displayed in the window so their owners can collect them (it never sells anything). The objects come to life once Emily has recited a particular verse and left the shop. Professor Yaffle is a wooden woodpecker bookend characterised as a dry academic and is apparently based on the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
My secondary image is entitled October Outside Dining? It is the courtyard of a local restaurant called The Hengist and is obviously suited to more temperate times and not a wet and windy Saturday in October.