At last, autumn is here. A few swallows are still hawking over the water, even in yesterday's mist and rain, and there are still dragonflies, Red Admirals and Small Tortoiseshells.
But it is definitely autumn. Ask anybody who ran in the half-marathon yesterday - my word, they did get wet. Well done, the man in the crocodile suit, and well done, Mike Smithy Morris, late of the Life project, who we know is much more…