An interesting transformation this morning. Woke up to a very sunny day and not even particularly cold, an hour or two later it is freezing cold, there are very strong winds, damp, storm coming... even yesterday the trees still had lots of colour: brown, red, yellow leaves... today outside my window they are completely bare!

Well the British winter is far from as severe as some of them, but it is well and truly here now as far as I'm concerned.