Seen around and about today

A lovely start to the day, feeling as dreamy as this picture suggests.  Possibly the beginnings of my turn at the cold, which has increased in congestion as the day has progressed.  Thankfully, Su is feeling better  , if still a bit weakened.

Looking out the back of the house, autumn colours look so much better in the sunshine

Picked up the van from VW garage, who have not fixed and only part-diagnosed it (but they did not charge me a lot for the time they spent on it, so not all bad...)  I am now on the trail of a good auto electrician though, so should get the battery side of things sorted soon.  Then I just need to get someone who can service the gas side of the van's functioning - never-ending but fun. Zoomed off in the van to Keynsham Co-op to exchange surplus Turkish lire and then came home to really blue sky after the washed out appearance of the last two days.

In the back garden, autumn has also properly started to show its full colours...

 Vibrant sedum

Later on saw these balloons on a brisk wet walk with Bella

And these pretty daisies too

This evening, we went out to the Little Theatre to see Woody Allen film, "Midnight in Paris" - a thoroughly enjoyable funny romp through a series of increasingly bizarre situations, and well worth seeing.  On the way to "Yum Yum Thai" for a meal afterwards, saw this patriotic taxi.

After dinner headed back towards the car and saw this Home Delivery of Large Skull Spider from Maplin's - just what every home needs!

Yesterday's record pageviews finally clocked in at 301 for the day, so we are on track for our highest ever monthly total. Don't know what we are doing to increase our readership so much (although we do get quite a few hits on a post called "CONKERS" which isn't about the computer game but about horse chestnuts!).  Maybe we should keep on travelling and writing about our exploits.  Please feel free to post a comment and let us know what brought you to the blog. Time for me to finish for the day, have a hot toddy and join Su in slumberland. Till tomorrow...