I love the Autumn or Fall whatever you like to call it. The colours, bright blue skies and clear crisp mornings or evenings. The last couple of days have been very crisp with nighttime lows of -10c and day time highs of 3c but down to -8c with windchill brrrr Christmas is coming.

These are my final two Fall photos for this year. I was walking around the grounds (I still cannot get used to having a acre plot ) taking stock of jobs to do before the snow comes when I looked up and saw our Larch tree in all it's golden glory. I couldnt resist getting a couple of photos and then I had to share them with you all.

Larch or Tamarack  depending on where you come from. Beautiful golden yellow needles, mind you the whole tree looks dead in the winter as unlike other fir tree's it sheds its needles.

Hard to believe it only cost 118,000 GBP isn't it?

OK this is nasty and perhaps anyone with young children should cover their eyes (the children's)

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Gemma has been snapping us as we rest up from the Party on Saturday evening. When she asked me to do my Mad-Eyed Moody impression.

Just to jog your memories here is Mad Eyed Moody from the Harry Potter film.

Now completely unaided by makeup or special effects here is my Mad Eyed Moody impression.

Bells Palsy has stopped the right hand side of my face responding to commands to smile or wink. But it is slowly improving (my previous impressions were quasimodo like) it can take upto a year to recover fully and my attack was 25th July this year. Joking about it is my way of dealing with the inconvience of not being able to deliver presentations and communicate the way I want to.