How to extend outdoor living into autumn and winter

Wrap up the best of outdoor autumn entertaining with our guide to keeping them fed, wowed and warm even in October

When positioning a barbecue or fire-pit at this time of year, hope for the best, but expect the worst. Picture: iStock

BETWEEN stabbing salad on a scratch of pavement in town to spoiling guests in whatever outdoor space we had, al-fresco invention really saved our sanity this summer. With Covid-19 concerns still limiting our socialising, there’s every reason to extend the outdoor entertaining season. Here’s everything you need to know to be a winter wonder host at home.

Getting undercover will save your event, be it an intimate afternoon tea enfolded in geansaithe, a frenetic, family First Communion bash, or searing steaks under the stars. Drifting rain is almost poetic once you’re under an awning nipping at the Earl Grey.