More Autumn leaves in honour of Alexei, because I recently helped out at a pre school session and we learned about the changing colours of leaves at this time of year.

Recently I have been busy trying to get the house and garden spruced up, and part of this busy-ness has involved painting the fence. Luckily you can’t see my shoddy efforts too close up!

What a miserable day! I could hardly drag myself outside, except to do the school run, though these lovely autumn leaves did brighten the view somewhat.

Another snap of Felix sleeping, celebrating the taking off of his side cot rail recently. It seems to have worked as although he still shouts for me in the middle of the night, in the evening when the boys are settling down, Felix is happy and excited to be in his own bed and stays […]

A bit late for Halloween perhaps, but yesterday, with the pocket money he has saved since first receiving any in September, Barnaby bought a pumpkin cake tin. Bless. So this afternoon we baked a toothy pumpkin face.

With 3 young boys, the fireworks were not the main attraction this year. The sparklers, however, were a HUGE hit. Much love… Rock band plays primary school benefit – article from Henley Standard 5th November 2011. A photo I took a few months ago, so it doesn’t strictly qualify for my 365, but the article was […]

  Another red robin, but this time with the beautiful young red leaves of the  x fraseri shrub, or Christmas Berry. Perhaps I am a bit early with this one then, but lovely Autumnal colours I thought.

The last of my tomatoes – still yummy!

  The few remaining sweeties leftover from Halloween – good for bribing the little boys!

  Inspired by Halloween pumpkins, a picture of other members of the Cucurbitaceae family!  (Yes, I did look that bit up.)