Even the emergency exit is alarmed!

As Storm Debi’s southern fringes wrestled some of the beautiful autumn leaves from the branches we got off quite lightly. We went to a large diy garden store to pick up some end of season bargains. Severely pruned and about to be planted they’ll look great next spring. (And at a fraction of their original prices!)

Today’s Cabinet reshuffle bringing back a former Old Etonian PM to the Cabinet via a quickie Life Peerage seems to be testing our democracy to its very limits?