Garden end of October

While having to wait in last week for workmen who never arrived managed to finish giving tree a trim so wasn't entirely a wasted day.




After the rain took these photos below - the Acer tree looked lovely but two days later not a leaf on it all blown off by the wind.

Good or bad advertising

Found this packet of Kellogs Bran Flakes when I was clearing out Larder.

 

Tomorrow!

Perhaps thats why I've never used it!!!!

Wednesday

Just waiting in hotel  now for transport to ferry for journey home.
Spent the morning on a bust trip around the Island - weather warm and sunny!
waiting for bus at St Peter Port Bus terminal

 

Flower displays are still beautiful around the town and Island - apparently after flower festival at end of September they are usually all removed but this year they have been left

we had a lunchtime snack in Creaseys cafe with this Seagull observing us through window

A Guernsey Pillar Box

Tuesday

Weather a little better today - a few Sunny intervals.    Walked down to Saints Bay - all access to beaches this side of Island is by steep paths or steps. Hardly anyone about and beach kiosks and toilets are now closed for winter,      Nice to be only human being on the beach though.

 

the parish church of St Martin, the standing stone outside,and some nearby houses

 

 

a couple of the tombstones in Churchyard

some pictures of St Martins village

 

Hi from Guernsey

After a rather fraught month or so coping with stresses of having new kitchen and bathroom installed (bathroom still not quite finished!) we are relaxing in Guernsey for a few days.

Green Acres Hotel where we are staying in St Martins is to be highly recommended, especially for the food and the friendly and helpful staff.   

 

opposite the hotel is a farm

the one drawback, if you can call it that, is it is rather a long walk to the bus stop in St Martins (about 15 mins if yiu are fit) but not an option if you have difficulty walking any distance which unfortunately applies to my friend Anne - so we have to resort to using a taxi.   We did get a lift into St Peter Port first day here from local Rep which meant we could then take advantage of Bus which runs all around the Island for just £1.  Fares are only £1 on any bus.     We had a Taxi back to Hotel later.    Weather has been quite warm but mostly overcast since we arrived, today drizzle all day but we did share a taxi into town and visited Guernsey Museum in Candie Gardens (which is at the top of the hill overlooking the harbour). which is featuring at the moment

"Watercolours from The Highgrove Florilegium 

Original artworks for one of the world's most exclusive books "  

   - the first time the pictures have been shown in UK.              Well worth seeing the illustrations are exquisite but no photographs are allowed.    After looking around the rest of the Museum which shows the history of Guernsey we had a coffee and toasted teacake in the adjoining Victoria Cafe.

 

oin the gradens below the Cafe is a statue to Victor Hugo - we would have liked to have visited his house which is open to the public during the year but which closes at the end of September.  The hiouse apparently is owned by the French and this year they banned groups which caused a bit of a headache for the Guernsey Tourist Board who have groups of french tourists coming over for day trips from St. Malo for the sole purpose of visiting Victor Hugo's house..

view of harbour from Cafe

After visiting the Museum we walked down the hill into town

You can walk almost anywhere on the Island but lanes are rather narrow