The Enid Blyton Society

a beautifully sunny autumnal day here with pure azure blue skies and the sunlight touching the yellow and orange leaves, painting them a dazzling gold, while the air is chill and speaks of the cooler winter days to come.

Damp, dour, frigid and nippy here. The ground remains mushy after the heavy rains of late meaning our labrador will churn up our less than immaculately conceived lawn even more so.

On a brighter note I did lose £20 in a shop and have it handed in to the cashier.
I celebrated its return by buying three packs of black winter socks - each pack containing five pairs of socks.
I should now be well equipped to withstand the promised forthcoming 'coldsnap' that has been forecast for the UK.

Rob Houghton wrote:a beautifully sunny autumnal day here with pure azure blue skies and the sunlight touching the yellow and orange leaves, painting them a dazzling gold, while the air is chill and speaks of the cooler winter days to come.

Positively Blytonesque, Rob.

I was thinking just the same!

Lol! I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek - but it was certainly a beautiful day - and so was today too!

I'm having a chest cold. My voice was gone this morning. I'm rewarding myself with rereading "Hollow Tree House" and eating clementines.

Sounds like a good cure Chrissie. Hope you feel better soon.

Get well soon, Chrissie.

Hope you're feeling better soon, Chrissie!

I hope you’ll soon be feeling better, Chrissie. Enjoy the clementines and the superb Hollow Tree House.

Roofers came to fix the flashing that had -within weeks- peeled off of my new lean-to and also to deal with other snagging that I'd identified. After suggesting I needed to replace the corrugated plastic with (something else-sorry my mind has gone blank). They did not mention this when they quoted! They are coming back tomorrow to replace it (free) with lead flashing.
Fibreglass!- just Googled it.
Hope you feel better soon Chrissie. Well organised (wish I was) floragord, That was lucky (and good of them) pete.
Edited thrice to correct my dreadful spellings of peoples names

I hope you feel better soon, Chrissie. Will you use this opportunity to read all 14 Tina und Tini stories? I also have a copy of this omnibus now.

Hope you're feeling better Chrissie

I'm looking up bus times for tomorrow. I'm going to see Elaine Paige, whom I adore, in concert tomorrow night and have decided to make a real day of it as I don't go out often. So I've decided to get the bus in the morning, get there nice and early and then I can have a good look around. Maybe even find a bookshop or two to rummage in .

Oh wow, sounds great, IceMaiden! I'd love to hear Elaine Paige in concert too. Hope you find a few bookshops as well while you're at it... sounds like a perfect day out.