Autumnal.

There's no doubt that autumn is here. As well as the strong winds and torrential rain it felt a lot cooler. It began to brighten up as the day went on so I took a chance and put some sheets in the machine. By the time they were done the sun was out and the washing dried in no time at all. 

I pottered around in the morning doing housework then while the washing was out on the line I sat outside with some crocheting. That way if the rain returned I could make a quick dash to rescue it. I've since done the ironing and thrown the last lot of sheets in the machine hoping they will at least blow part-dry before I need to bring them in. Who knows what the weather will be like tomorrow?

With so much rain filling up the water butts I managed to fit a length of old hose pipe to the plastic fitting sticking out of the side (near the top) of the water butt to act as an overflow. I ran the hose down the raised beds along the side of the garden and drilled holes into the hose to act as a drip line into the raised beds.