In other news...

...a splendid sour dough loaf was purchased here, and a worthy piece of cheese. Also a punnet of Kiwi Berries, which I didn't care for overly much but a new experience none the less. 

Tomorrow we have engaged a gardener to carry out major works to our out of control leylandii, my days of balancing atop a wobbly ladder with a chain saw are over, it is a young mans game.