Finally catching up with you all. It's been a grim day here blowing a hooley and raining sideways, the garden is thouroughly battered. Still, it means on the next dry day I can take out all the annuals and give the borders a bit of a fettle and a mulch. The flowers were still looking good until today, but this has done for them.
I have instead been doing some dull but necessary work, so at least I have swallowed some frogs.
A wonderful OTD Lily and it did indeed amuse me. Having seen the falls close up it also terrified me! I cannot imagine any human being surviving that, and the poor cat! I suspect she used up more than one of her little lives that day 
I do wish we could get the women of the UK to commit to a one day strike; we could sort a lot of things out with that tactic...
Thank you for breakfast Tracy and agree that the situation in Wales is indeed a fiasco and unnerving.
I'm glad some of you managed an autumn walk; I have only just managed to get the dogs to go out and do their business; we haven't had a peep out of them all day, they have stayed in bed (though have moved around various beds; they do this very stealthily in case we should spot they are awake). The littlest one had to change legs three times he had such a long wee; that is known as a 'three legger' in our house 
Like Nelllyyy I miss Concorde; I first saw it at Heathrow in 1975 and I have been mesmerised by it since. I was never fortunate enough to fly on it, but I have seen it fly and I have been on board three of them at various aircraft museums; so tiny inside!
Thanks also for the reminder on Strictly; I have lost track of the days again!
I did not know you were one of our Scottish correspondents Anne, 'Saint Nic' indeed...good to know you have access to spare kettles and toasters though in case of BC breakdowns
If they stop us buyng booze and chocolate Hippo I think we will see civil disobedience
That's a lovely piece about Windsor Castle MissSarah. I'm sure I saw a TV programme about this too, I must have a dig about. We used to live there, (Windsor, not the castle unfortunately!) and council tax payers got free entry to the castle so I used to pop in quite often and sometimes just sit in the gardens in fine weather or mooch about inside if it was cold or rainy. There was always something new to see and of course when the Christmas decorations went up it was quite spectacular.
You reminded me Daisy that I also have a friend who lives on the border of Wales, I must drop her a line to see how she is getting on. Wasn't there also a tale of a golf club back at the beginning of lockdown where the course and the '19th hole' were on different sides of the border?
So glad I am in time for fizz and nibbles; I raise a glass to all those wrangling relatives, whether they be littlies and/or olds. A toast to your strength and patience; cheers!
(And thank you lake for reminding me to send Himself out for some wood before it gets dark; definitely an evening for a roaring fire.)
I have instructed the BC butlers to light all the fires and to remember to change the clocks, not forgetting to move the sundial 
And a second toast to Eleanor Sharpston, thank you gcat!
P.S. 'Sharing' bags? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha........