Horse-chestnuts...

... provided the autumnal colour in the very brief sunny interlude this afternoon. Back to the rain again almost immediately.

Yesterday, we collected a bumper crop of these for my grandson to use as conkers. I suspect he will be just as interested in counting the bag full, when he gets them at the weekend, as he will in attaching them to strings and trying to smash his opponents' conkers (in what I have always considered a rather inaccurate contest).