The natural world is full of challenge and change, but those elements are also logical and necessary, unlike so many of the things to worry about in the Anthropocene.

It seems like only last month that I was still wearing shorts to work, desperately clinging to the last few rays of weak summer sunshine.

“It can’t be autumn yet…”

It was. Now even that has slunk away and, as leaves crunch under foot, there’s a chill in the air on my walks from the village.