November’s arrival this year is pretty stunning – there were hopes that after the very wet and stormy October we have experienced this year a change of month would signal something rather different – frosty with crisp leaves to crunch our way through the last month before the wonder of December and Christmas.  Alas, no such luck!

We can live in continued hope that now I’ve got those words down and ready for publication, the weather will immediately change. . . just to prove me wrong.

Whatever, after one of the fastest years on record with so much happening on the political and international fronts, maybe we should forget about our English weather and pray really hard instead for peace and goodwill which we all so badly need.