#TimeToGetToWork

Friday 12th, 5.40, 10.7dg, 9.9ml rain, forecasting broken cloud with possible afternoon showers. Autumn. It is cool morning, noon and night... no socialising on the gin terrasse, no lovely long late summer evenings outside, no real bar-b-que weather, and now the garden is positively glowing with autumn colours already.... I have missed all the summer possibilities, but this season has not been a summer season here, so perhaps I have missed nothing. Yesterday was a day in the office quietly sorting mail and papers while my cherubs from NZ organised themselves ready for early departure today, direction Frankfurt.... after 10.00am I will be quietly alone here in the house...  So, time to organise my adult conversation groups for re-start next week and I have new children coming for meetings about tuition... back into action with no time for navel gazing really. All my winter's firewood has been cut, split and stacked in my absence, how blessed am I to have such wonderful hard working friends. I must say it a huge weight off my mind to have it all done, now I just have to get a heating engineer in to re-set my hot water cylinder/ central heating options and I am good to go for winter guests. Bookings are starting to build so it all looks very positive. If I was a good girl I would do a quick re-topping of the road hedge as the wet summer has meant massive growth on the hedges... only the one that runs along the footpath... the Gemeinde get so antsy about footpath hedges in the winter, so being a good citizen it will be done. There is always something that needs doing. Happy days.