5p for a plastic bag & this n that

The North East was hit by what appears to be the first of the Autumn/Winter storms 

 The story talks of  70mph winds and up to two and half inches of rain.  Sounds like summer is definitely over!

Its soon going to cost you 5p if you have to use one of the supermarkets own plastic bags 

Wales and Northern Ireland already have this charge and England and Scotland look set to introduce it.  You have to admit the number of discarded plastic bags is alarming so I guess its not a bad idea.  Just one thing though will the supermarkets be doing anything with all our 5p's or is it just more profit for them?

A flying frog!  this shot from a space rocket launch catches the amphibian in a mid launch frame

I wonder if it survived the flight!

In the garden I managed to put the finishing touches to our new bit of land by building a low stone wall

 We are in a bit of a quandary as to what to actually do with it.  When we were just using it a fence ran from the tree towards the camera and we just stored all kinds of stuff behind it.  No doubt over the winter we will get some inspiration!

Our friend from Canada, Sharon is over on a visit with her son Kyle and yesterday they spent the afternoon with us.  She used to live 2 doors away in the next terrace and had kept a car in a garage.  The idea was to keep it insure so her NCD would build up.  It now appears the paperwork required is getting difficult so she decided to scrap it.
After breaking the key in the padlock to the garage door we ended up hacksawing it off.  2 scrap men had been organised to take the old car away and after some pushing and manoeuvring it was loaded up and away it went.
The garage had quite a bit of "stuff" in and Sharon recovered a couple of boxes of vinyl records and other odds and ends but all the other gear is being left to me to get rid of.
That task done we all sat around in the garden and although the weather wasn't great the BBQ was fired up.

With the sun making a brief appearance Sharon is trying out one of her hanging chairs recovered from the garage, She's talking of taking them back to Canada, I hope she doesn't!
We later sat in doors, "chewing the fat" and looking through the record collection, a fair amount of alcohol was consumed.  Almost like the old days!!

Enjoy the day  

Follow this link to see  our weather website
Or this one just to see  the streaming birdfeeder cam