So farewell the British summertime. The clocks went back an hour when BST came to an end at 2am. There's a debate year after year about whether we need "daylight saving time" at all but in any case time is an illusion. Nevertheless the damp and biting chill that's set in over the past day or two does indeed portend that winter is ahead of us.
 I'll think fondly of the long hot summer of 2018 helped by some photographic reminders- like these Ox-eye Daisies swaying among the grasses back in June when I walked a stretch of the South Downs Way in Sussex.