November
November reminds me to slow down. As the year exhales, life here steadies. Every falling leaf marks an ending and the air is tinged with melancholy and woodsmoke. The Cornish lanes are no longer filled with shiny cars crammed with excited visitors and the trees in my orchard have been pared right back, their limbs bare and stark against a sky leached of colour. The cafés are closed. Holiday cottages stand empty. The summer finery of awnings and umbrellas has been stripped awa
