10 degrees colder

[soppysofty]

Looks like it is farewell to summer.

Only 8C here this morning (Aldershot) and they say 13 C max today.

Ah well - it was good while it lasted.  Snow anyone?

[chickengrandma-2008]

Did you want it to last right through the winter???

Better move to Spain!!

[*pixachu*]

Ooh it was chilly but I didn't know the temp - my poor guinea pigs had cold feet 😞

[ilove2patch]

Cooler here too but lovely & sunny. 24deg in the breakfast room with the sun through the window.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Beautiful day here, not a cloud in the sky, breezy and 13 degrees. Day before yesterday it was 20 degrees in the rain. Oh well we knew it was coming didn't we.

                                                                           

[carolyorkie2010]

Very cold here with gales and rain; the sea is very rough. Silly season has started now for my Raynaud's - first day I have had my white fingers. I do love this weather though, I could walk for miles in it. Youngest dog loves to chase the leaves.

[rose2008-2008]

Its a lot cooler in Maidstone today, overcast and a strongish wind blowing brrrrrrr brrrrrr. I did hear we were going to get snow in October but think that it must have been a joke!!!!!!!!!! ha ha ha LOL. I like snow so i dont mind but its treacherous for drivers i know. I have not put my heating on yet today i will probably later though as my teeth will start chattering brrrrr.

[chickengrandma-2008]

It's windy and we've had showers but I'm still just in a short sleeved Tee shirt.  Haven't thought about heating yet.

 Have just swum my 1/3rd of a mile, second time this week. 

[ilove2patch]

Well done. You will be growing fins at this rate. Cold wind here but lovely & sunny.

[*pixachu*]

It's a shame my daughter is finally going round to her friend's house who lives a few doors down * who has an outdoor swimming pool*. It's not really the weather for it anymore! 

We have lived here a year today, and finally she is invited round. Hopefully they will still be friends next summer ((pool parties))

It's been blustery all day today so my drive and garden are covered in spiky balls (I think it is a sweet chestnut tree) 

[twishy123]

Are those the ones you can eat Pixachu?....if so, lucky you....I love roast chestnuts..mmmmmm 

[ed_blackadder_1]

mmmmmm yum roasted chestnuts, I saw them in the shop today.

[twishy123]

My father used to roast them at the front of our coal fire when I was little......

we had to prick them all over with a darning needle and when the first one split or exploded they were ready.....and then you had to peel them...hot hot hot.... 

Ohhhhh dribblin' now....

[ed_blackadder_1]

I did some to put with the brussel sprouts last year but some little tinker came in and ate them all so we had to have plain sprouts.

              (that would be me then )

[bitsnknots]

This morning when I was going out, the car was telling me that it was 5 degrees and it had gone up to 6 degrees when I got into town.  I took my mum out to a couple of shops in town and the temperatures was a whopping 12 degrees.  At the moment, we have sun with some cloud and it is breezy.

[*pixachu*]

Oooh I don't know if we can eat them? 

Last year we never really saw what was in them as the squirrels were working hard, burying them in our lawn! 

This year there are hardly any squirrels, maybe because their habitat changed after the new neighbours chopped down loads of their trees? Maybe they will besiege us soon. But I have set up an electric fox deterrent and that may keep them away too. However, I only switched it on a few days ago - a fox had on it!! 

I'd switched it off in the summer when the guinea pigs were out on the grass, and forgotten to switch it back on.

Anyway, now the spiky balls are landing on my driveway, they split open and the insides are really weedy. Hardly conkers size,  just teeny little things? Mostly around the size of a jumbo cashew nut. 

[chickengrandma-2008]

We have sweet chestnut trees all around the garden and the neighbourhood.  When I was driving down the road earlier the road was covered in leaves and squashed chestnuts.  I've been looking for them ripening every evening when I take the dog out for a drag, so hopefully there'll be some down this evening.

[chickengrandma-2008]

Pixachu, conkers have a greencase and the spikes are like the case, green and not that many.  Chestnut cases are brown when ripe and the prickles are more bristle like and very sharp!! 

[*pixachu*]

I definitely have chestnuts then. So, you can safely eat them?

My OH's boss was asking about this recently - he's Italian and he seems to think I am his personal assistant sometimes. I get asked allsorts - he seems to think I know the answers to stuff. However I do not know how to legally take his pet monkey to Brazil!! 

(The monkey doesn't like winter here 😞 and wants to go and live in Rio.... )

ps,  my earlier post has been edited by admin. A fox pooped on the fox deterrent. How very rood, foxy!

[lhasa.two]

It was 7c here this morning but it's been lovely and sunny all day but very windy. It might be time for the CH to be put on...

Pix, suggest to your Italian that he goes to his local vet and gets all the info for a pet passport. As soon as he's done that and the monkey has all his jabs and papers, he then books him on to a flight to Rio as cargo. Simples!