Lovely November!

Okay, so this is my first blog post. Hundreds of thousands of blogs on the internet, and now one more! Autumn is supposed to give some people depressions, but just look outside at all those lovely colours. The orange and yellow leaves dropping on the ground like so many amber jewels scattered by a windy hand, and suddenly the woods are many colours. Time to put bags of fruit and potatoes into the cellar, to think about making jam and preserves, to bundle up warm and go out into the chill air, to really enjoy the warmth of hot, sweet tea.