First frost of the season

Woke up to the first frost of the Autumn today.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon

Saw a strange thing in the sky today. It was about 12:30pm, and the sky was clear apart from a couple of wispy clouds. I looked up at a plane and a little way over noticed something glinting in the sun. Whatever it was appeared to be at a high altitude so that I couldn't see any detail, just a bright point of light which I'm assuming resulted from the sun reflecting off a surface of the object. The light wasn't constant or regular, the impression I had was of an object tumbling across the sky, catching the sunlight intermittently as it went. I watched it for about 5 minutes as it slowly moved along. Then I went to get my camera, although the object appeared so small that I don't think it would register on a photo, but when I got back more cloud had appeared and I had lost the UAP.

Amphibian

I was about to plunge my spade into the compost when I spotted this amphibious intruder (not sure whether it's a frog or toad). I eventually persuaded it to leave the compost and last saw it heading into the undergrowth.

Tomato plants pulled up

Before pulling up the tomato plants I harvested the remaining fruit. The green tomatoes may ripen indoors.

New veg bed in preparation

I have uncovered a vegetable patch in the garden that had for some years been covered with black plastic sheeting, gravel and paving stones. The soil had become very compacted, but I dug it over today following yesterday's rain, and it was fairly easy to break up. I'll be digging it over some more and adding compost.

This is where I plan to grow potatoes next year.

Final batch of spuds

Today I harvested the last 2 Pentland plants.