Today started off dry with even a hint of sunshine but by this afternoon it was spitting with rain and now it is pouring. However I did get the vital task of the first lot of lights trailed around the railings in the front garden and in the Magic Garden I put up the five stake lights.

There are blooms left in the front garden but they are all getting rather bedraggled. I think I will cut down the hollyhocks now but the scruffy coreopsis can carry on providing some colour. The rosebuds probably won’t open up now but occasionally I get a rose bloom in December