There was another shoot today on the farm next to where we live. We like to stay out of the way when it's on (every fortnight) and we walk Missy well away from anywhere there will be shooting, not that I don't think they will be extremely careful, I just think we will muck things up for them, scare the birds the wrong way or something and the noise from the guns freaks me out a bit, let alone a little dog!

For a multitude of very boring reasons, we didn't get out and about on a day out like last time when we went to see that Elizabethan ruin, we just got a quick walk a few miles down the road. It rained in the afternoon and so we decided to have our first open log fire here at Gardener's Cottage. The cottage has this original fireplace with art deco tiles. We haven't lived in a house with a real fire for ages and DH loves them - when we have a holiday cottage with a fireplace, he's in his element - looking after it kind of becomes his hobby and I'm not allowed anywhere near it (suits me, I don't have to do any of the lighting or clearing up!)

We had the chimney swept about a month ago and so off DH disappeared in the car on a mission for logs, when he got back, this is the result - a lovely warming fire that made us forget that we didn't have a day out ... very restful to put one's feet up with a glass of wine in front of! DH is so chuffed that we're home on Sunday and it's forecast rain so we can stay in and have another fire!