Sunny days eventually :-)

I'm not much good at daily blogging so have decided that weekly is possibly the way to go unless anything extraordinary happens!
Eventually it has stopped raining  and we have had some lovely crisp sunny autumn days. Time to tackle the garden jungle... After a weekend of hard but very enjoyable labour the top end is looking very tidy. Mark is very pleased with our new chipper and reduced two huge buddlias into a pile of mulch in record time. We have pulled all the ivy down from the barn walls, pruned all the shrubs   (at the top end) and chipped to add to mulch mountain, dug over the raised beds and tidied the greenhouse. Grace and the chickens had lots of fun kicking about in mulch mountain, we should have fantastic eggs in the next few days as the chickens spent most of the days eating worms, spiders and grubs. Also they got into the greenhouse whilst Lorn and Grace were picking the last remaining tomatoes, from outside it looked like a low budget horror film...Chickens jumping to try and reach tomatoes, Lorn waving his arms around wildly trying to shoo them out and Grace screaming in a very high pitched manner, all witnessed through the Perspex sheeting that you can't see through clearly it was very surreal.
Hopefully the dry spell will continue as the stats for the summer for this part of the world were not very cheery... The wettest summer for over 100 years, the work weather station had recorded 129 consecutive days with some form of precipitation, which ended on Sunday when eventually it was dry for 24 hours.