Might have been the clocks going back today but life was not going to plan and so by 2.30 I had given up and wandered into the back garden. Between trimming the shaped shrub by the steps and cutting the huge rose that was threatening to uproot at the next windy night it was suddenly five o clock and darkening. An afternoon well spent. I snapped some photos as I went but they didn't capture half of the loveliness of it.
