Yes, yes it is Autumn.
You can tell that by the fact that Cowes Week has finished, the kids go back next week, football is now playing every Saturday.
But most of all…
It’s that smell, the clean fresh damp cool tingle in the back of your nose, the one that smells of damp ferns and undergrowth, the dampness hanging for just a bit longer than you think it ought to. Those birds, you know the ones that wake you at 0330-0400 for the dawn chorus, well they are getting quieter and later..
Best time of the year, by far.