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The feeders are proving as popular as ever in the garden this autumn. We've had lots of little birds getting through the seed, but also larger magpies trying to hover around the fat balls, and squirrels doing their usual olmpics!

There are lots of leaves again in the garden, but we're keeping on top of them this year and have already 3 large garden bags. I hope you're all enjoying the autumn colours!

Half term has arrived at last after another busy start to the year. We've headed north for the break and are staying near Windermere in the Lake District. The weather today was a bit changeable with some rain and drizzle through the morning and some patchy sun later in the afternoon, we were however treated to a rainbow across the lake which was nice!

We had a wander around Bowness on Windemere and then a potter about Windemere town. Saw a few nice bits in the shops and enjoyed the views across the lake. The autumn colours are looking pretty spectacular and we're hoping to catch a bit more of it on some of our wanders later in the week. Enjoy the photos!

OK, so since when has it been so hard to find popping corn? Is it really that uncommon to make your own nowadays?

Friday night was film night and no film night would be complete without popcorn! So Friday evening we cracked out the popcorn maker (courtesy of BarclayCard) only to discover we were short of one key ingredient - popping corn. "Easy," I hear you cry, so off we toddled to Tesco's; a big supermarket like that is sure to stock it, right? WRONG! And so the hunt began!

Leaving Tesco's - rather suprised, but not ready to give up - we made our way over to ASDA - again, no luck. Next stop, Sainsbury's, whose staff kindly joined us in the hunt convinced they stocked it, ALAS they were as suprised as us (possibly more so) as our suprise was begining to fade a little by now. Keen to help, Sainsburys pointed us in the direction of Sainsbury's Local (AKA Jacksons) (funny that) - they too were a no. We took a long shot at ALDI - again, nothing.

Feeling beat, we dropped by at ASDA number 2 in Hyson Green to buy some of the ready made stuff - we took one last wander down a dried products aisle and there it was!! Woohoo a grand old price of £0.68 (and £5 worth of petrol looping the city, probably)!

That's all folks, moaning over - ASDA Hyson Green you are the winner!!