Autumn has arrived bringing with it that final flurry of leaf colour before the leaves are finally shed and the trees will lay bare for the next few months. Crimsons, buttery yellow and deep oranges have replaced the uniform green. They look stunning and the fallen leaves lie like a buttery carpet on the ground. All the leaves begging to be kicked by my childlike feet as I am taken back to my childhood when kicking leaves was a gentler sort of pastime amongst us children. They crinkle and crumple under my shoes. The days have gone chillier. The mornings darker but we have lost that mist that clung drearily to the daylight hours. The clocks fall back over the weekend and for a few weeks the mornings will be lighter but the days will be
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