The golden spider

This one's not for those of you with arachnophobia! The spider's suspended on a gate in Wooler; it looks quite impressive at night shining in the lamplight! We walked past it on our way to the shop this evening.

Yet MORE time wasted on corresponding with Scottish Power - their Customer Services Department is absolutely hopeless! No joined-up thinking at all...

It's been a strange sort of week, and I'm really glad it's the weekend! Hoping to concentrate on Christmas - it will be upon us in less that a fortnight, and I've hardly thought about it so far, let alone write cards or wrap presents...