Sunday 8th November 2026, 11.55am (day 5,554)

November is one of my least favourite months, at least when judged by what usually happens in it (which most years is a bunch of work, increasingly gloomy weather and no festival at the end to compensate). But for the first part of the month, at least the landscapes are colourful. A definite advantage of living in more deciduous parts of the planet.