Hale after all the hype

Monday morning saw most of the group heading out to Heathrow for their journey home. However the most of the UK was blanketed in fog so the folk flying out of Heathrow might well have had a delay. I got my away across London in a taxi to Euston. It took almost an hour by taxi so I was glad I gave myself plenty of time to get there. Found the right train and the right seat and settled down for a nice train ride to Manchester. I have never seen the UK blanketed in fog and it pretty much was the case all the way to Manchester. Apparently the fog does descend on the Country this tine of the year. With just two stops before Stockport we seem to arrive in no time and was I was off the train found John waiting on the platform. It was good to come home to Wyngate Road and catch up with Nikki. Had a relaxing lunch and afternoon just catching up and then after dinner had to watch the highlights of the RWCup final which was great. Interesting to hear the English commentators take on the game. Overall they thought the right team won but the general opinion of those commentators was that Australia was on the wrong side of some of the decisions. There is a couple of good items in the paper today. Graham Henry has been writing for the Guardian so he had his sign off article which was very good. There was also a good article about the future of the game in the emerging countries and what is needed to keep closing the gap between the top 8 - 10 and the rest. Much colder here today but I did go outside to take some photos of the garden in Autumn. For those of you who read the Gallipoli blog you would have seen John and Nikki's garden in Spring so I thought you would be interested to see it in Autumn. The colours are pretty good although Nikki says the colours are past there best. I had to take the picture of the knot garden by hanging out of my bedroom window upstairs. I hope you enjoy