🎃 Happy Halloween and Samhain 🎃

I love autumn. The last hurrah of nature before settling into winters dormancy. Most leaves are fallen or soon will, in golden, red, amber hues. Revealing the landscapes underneath. It’s time for a long walk along a rural footpath or ploughed field. Spot a few pheasants or jackdaws. Beautiful! 🍂

I miss camping. It’s been a while since I’ve looked up at the stars without light pollution, built a fire, cooked outdoors and woke up to birdsong. Yes you miss the modern trappings after a while, and tent wrangling is always a caper, but a short break is a great disconnect from modern stresses. 🏕️

Feeling the depressing inevitability of shrinkflation. Caused by companies seeking to maximise returns during periods of increased costs to them (naturally by passing the cost on to the consumer). But the price never drops and the product never “re inflated” when times improve. Profit > Quality. 😔

I find these new social apps a bit like a new journal or notebook.

You get them with all the intentions in the world of writing in them with all sorts of ideas. But it’s so hard to spoil the clean page and actually write, or in this case post something.

So here’s me spoiling the clean page. :)