Four seasons in one day

This morning was definitely spring, as these just out flowers will testify (and yes, they really are that colour); lunchtime we sat in summer sunshine, before clouding over for a properly autumnal afternoon with (I suspect) a cold, windy and rainy night to come.

Friends arrive soon for a weekend of excess. The Halloween decorations are up, the pizzas are ready, the kids are wound up into a fever pitch of excitement, there's still fudge to come: let the festivities begin.

I won't bring the mood down by discussing just how much it's going to cost us to 'buy' the path in our garden from the Council. I hope our old lawyers in London are ready for the insurance claim...