Well this month the clocks go back giving us an extra hour to lounge in bed or grab a bonus hour for your day. Halloween also appears at the end of October lending us the best excuse for dressing up and joining in with trick and treating festivities, whether it be taking to the streets yourselves or handing out too many sweets to strangely attired children.

There is still much to see and do in the garden this month and as ever, the ‘to do’ list is rather longer than I hoped. At the start of the summer my husband and I started on a project that we expected to be completed in a couple of weekends. Very much a case of wishful thinking and after being constantly rained off the job is still tantalisingly close to completion. So in hopeful celebration of the completion of the transformation of our outhouse, this month’s colours feature the shades we are using.