A puzzle

How come every plant (very few now) that somehow finds itself in our house . . . just dies. And yet I buy one of these every year and they thrive . . . and thrive . . . way beyond the time when we’re fed up with it and way beyond the time when everyone else is complaining that theirs is dropping leaves. There must be some logic to this.

A wild day - high wind and heavy rain. We are in no danger of flooding but the roads in and out of the village can flood, as they did in one direction today. Just hoping it calms down by tomorrow as we have visitors travelling up here. We have told them not to set off if it looks iffy but hopefully it won’t come to that. We now have five extra bedrooms set up and plenty of food. We are looking forward to a few special days.