Enjoying the fine days before the frost

IT’S a beautiful day.

The sun is shining and there are just a few streaks of white cloud high in the sky. I really want to get this article finished so I can get outside and enjoy it.

There is a new urgency about enjoying a fine day because there are many countryside hints that the summer is over and autumn has sneaked up on us once again. The days are warm but there is a sharp cold at night. It hasn’t happened yet, but I know that some morning soon I’m going to find the leaves on the courgette plants in the vegetable garden blackened by a night frost.