My dining room decorations never came down! Saves dusting the cobwebs out. Just spay them silver and they become instant decorations!

It's time to put the sprouts on to boil, although some have been on since May.

Of course, now it is September and only 3 weeks to the end of Summer, the sky is blue and cloudless, the sun is shining brilliantly and I got 2 Christmas catalogues in the post last week.

In Britain today we received the news that the Post Office have failed in all their 15 targets for delivering the mail, despite removing the second delivery to allow more time to complete the first...... I suggest DHL, Carrier Pigeon or tame duck - anything is going to be faster than the British Postal service!

LTS