Autumn is starting and it is time to tidy up

The Autumn colours down the drive are just beginning and contrasted with the deep blue sky they are wonderful. The leaf sweeping is not so fantastic!

Now is the time to cut the hedges, repair the fences and clean the chimneys etc and we have three wonderful contractors for this.

Jeff Ling - 01258-473-663 - cuts our field hedges with enormous precision and care. He also lays hedges and keeps our fencing in order. We now have a beautiful new gate and rails at the top of the drive which is a huge improvement on the old one and safer as I no longer have to climb the rickety old one.

The garden hedges have just been given a hair cut ready for next year’s weddings by Ian Davies our tree surgeon - 07977 127483 - the Yew hedge at the bottom of the drive is beginning to look quite “Gaudiesque”

Last, but not least, Dale Edds from Drakes Chimney Cleaners has been to clean the chimneys - quite a job, they need 14 lengths of pole to reach the top! Sadly it was raining but we still got a photograph of the brush coming out of the top - no longer the same shape as the old ones.www.drakeschimneycleaners.co.uk

Finally, Michael and I have just put up a new polytunnel to help us get an early start on pots etc for the 11 weddings we are still hoping to hold in 2021 - all done amazingly without a cross word!