I’ve been snapping some autumn colours in the garden and hoping that when we visit New England next week we will not be too late to catch some autumn ‘foliage’.

Today was Marcus’ birthday outing at Thorpe Park.  Mid October? Expect rain, wind, closed rides and generally miserable weather.  What were we thinking of?  Well a miracle happened and we had a wonderfully warm and sunny day.  Lovely autumn colours gilded the lily.  Shame about the queues.

The flowers of this variety of iris (Neomarica gracilis) last just one day. Managed to photograph this one first thing in the morning before it had begun to fade. Beautiful.

Finally got some decent photos of our new hamster, Acorn. He’s been a bit shy, but now seems to be getting used to us. Here is one I took this morning… hamsters are so cute!