Icy.

It's been a day of frequent showers with the occasional burst of sun. Unlike yesterday the wind has felt icy and there has been a lot of hail. There's nothing like having people coming to visit to get me sorting out the spare rooms. (Most of the time I can ignore the closed doors.) Peter was only too keen to move the sofa bed from his study into another room and once I had built a small platform for the little wardrobe (so that it could be put over the boxed in pipes in that room) I was able to get on with even more tidying up. My car is now full of stuff to take to the recycling centre and the charity shop.  Now I have to work out a way of disposing of a large office desk that sits in one room. It's too big for either of our cars but it's going to take an angle grinder to chop up the metal frame. 

I haven't put up any decorations yet. This is because with only the 2 of us here, like last year I shall only put up a token amount. Our family tradition is to decorate the tree on Christmas Eve and again like last year I'll just cut some conifer branches and put them in a big jug. Christmas cards and the lovely poinsettia already make the place look festive and there will be so much less to put away at the end of the holiday.