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On World Animal Day (4th October), I'd like to ask whether you've ever done anything to directly help an animal in need.

When I was 17, my family took in an abandoned starving cat. My dad had been teaching me to drive in the countryside, when I stalled the car at a juntion by a wood. As I tried to start the engine, a pitiful starving kitten stumbled out of the wood onto the road. It's ribs were showing, it was starving so badly, there was a blood encrusted cut by it's mouth and it was covered with dried mud and poo. We took it in and cleaned it up and fed it and when no-one claimed it, we adopted it. He lived a good three years that he'd not have had if I hadn't stalled that car, before being run over and killed.

What's your story about helping an animal in need?

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My local council recently introduced the purple bin bags and we are now are supposed to only put 1 bag out a week. All well and good if you have a small family or live on your own but I have a big family and finding it very hard to do this. The council only give us 52 bin bags for the year, if you need any more you have to pay for more. Don't get me wrong, we are recycle everything but still find it hard. To me this is another stealth tax.

Well Autumn is definitely here as all the trees are shedding their leaves. I did not really used to like this time of year but now that I have retired early I quite enjoy it. I can still go out in the garden because it is not too cold and I love hearing the rustle of all the leaves. I try to gather all the leaves up from around my garden at least twice a week because if you leave too many of them on the ground the grass and soil do not get chance to breathe. The nights have certainly started to draw in and pretty soon we will be putting the clocks back for the winter months. Do other people enjoy this time of year, or is it one that you really hate?