We’re not even half way through November, and I’ve seen my first Christmas tree. 🎄

A christmas tree on the stret near Farringdon.

There’s a certain joy to early starts in the autumn, and this morning’s early trip to the station was spectacular.

A ranbow over houses near Hassocks station.

🤔

I have a certain admiration for the attempt to move people over, but I’m not sure it will work.

Working late at the office, adding a feast of links to Moodle, for the journalism students to ”enjoy”…

Enjoying Halloween on a warm but wet night.

A modest haul of sweets for the girls, but good fun in good company.

Trick or Treat in Shoreham.

London being London in its charming way.

A London pub in Farringdon

More good advice from the morning swim classes whiteboard.

A whitebiard saying "strive for progress not perfection".

Autumn sun through the oak.

Sunlight shining through autumnal oak leaves.

Lovely bit of sulphur tuft, there.

Sulphur Tuft fungus.

Caption competition…

A Halloween pumpkin "vomiting" leaves.

Quite the sunset tonight.

Sunset over the Adur.

Words of wisdom at the 7.30am swim.

A sign saying: 'It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop"

A lovely little discovery – an acorn cup fallen into another plant.

An acorn cup lodged in another plant.

The path through the woods.

Breakfast at the Talking Hands café, after my train was cancelled.

Hassocks, Sussex, in the UK. 8.30am.

Vegan breakfast at the Talking Hands coffee shop

Sometimes getting up early for my daughter’s 7.30am swimming class is totally worth it.

Sunrise over the trees at Lancing College, West Sussex

Morning commute.

Hassocks station at 8am on a Friday.

An image from a time, a place and a life far away.

And long gone.

Dollar from the High Street at dusk.

Well, this is not at all what I was aiming for when I prompted Midjourney, but it’s very dramatic, and rather lovely…

Undergraduate student me, early 1990s…

Adam Tinworth in the early 90s…