A freezing weekend...

.....the first frosts of the winter and my plants are all outside still, no bulbs planted and no really usable greenhouse.  I am fed up with this garden, I can't summon up any interest in it this year.

Made a start on the Christmas shopping, and a bit of making and decorating in my messy-very messy- room.

Why can't I get any pictures to load......JOHN.....help, again.  Ever since BT "fixed" our phone line, we have been having problems.  It was perfectly fine until they came to mend it, now we can barely hear any phone calls, and internet is so hit and miss.

Monday morning....

....and its still blooming cold.....so.....

                   ....a nice cosy fire.....

          .....winter slippers with a thick sole (the cold kitchen floor comes straight through my thin slippers).....

                     .....a jar of pretty fairy lights....

                      ....a nearly empty coffee cup.......

                ......my favourite festive magazine (and a dog who definitely does NOT want to for a walk....and....WHAT.....

           ....a chewed tea-bag besides the dog's toy-box!!!!!!

                ......when, and how, did he raid the bin?

It's coming....

    ....and it will be here before we know it...

      ......Joes all set, made him a Christmas/winter collar, very smart he looks too, or at least he will when he has a haircut

Emptying my camera...

     .....and finding....

               ....a sunny Sunday afternoon stroll along the canal bank....(must burn that coat of his)

            .....when Sara, Paul and Ben came to stay for the weekend.....

                                   
            ...Teasing the dog with her toes, when he did not want to be picked up to be part of any photograph....good, thats my shirt she pinched, and his paws were....YUK!

    ...A different weekend in London to fix a few bits in Charlotte's flat.  I went off to enjoy Borough market early, and in the rain, it turned out to be a good move as it was less packed than usual and I managed to wander round, damp, but unsquashed!

                 .....unlike this beautiful seasonal pile of seasonal squashes and pumpkins.

                    ....how much!......

         Our picnic was good, if pricey, as we all sat in the flat waiting for paint to dry, and we got all the jobs done too.

          An evening in town, eating mince pies and drinking champagne in John Lewis, I hate mince pies but these were d'licous.....Waitrose own obviously.  I didn't buy anything, but I shall look out for those mince pies over Christmas.

Darsh sat in a corner doing a quick price check....

                   .....before he made nearly his biggest purchase off the year.....

She took her present box all the way to Nottingham on Saturday morning, planning to have good "play".  Unfortunately, she left the contents on the table to cool down, and so carried a half empty box all that way.

28, and still stupid...

She caught the train back on Sunday morning and we spent the whole day at the vintage fair, shopping, trying on, wandering round and buying.....Christmas shopping has begun.

And the chocolate cake was pretty good too. 

At home....

......enjoying a day of fog that never lifted, lights on early this afternoon....

            ....candles lit to enjoy our afternoon tea by....

          ......a dog who didn't want to take his coat off after his walk this morning....

          .....in fact he was so reluctant to get off his favourite blanket, his Neville blanket, that he growled at me when I tried to get him to come for a walk!  Little rat.

It's November....

                                                        ....this is what we can expect.