It's come around quickly, hasn't it? Doesn't seem five minutes since I was wearing three jumpers and waxing lyrical about the joys of spring.
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Now it's the second weekend of the football season – or the third if you follow one of the less successful teams (only teasing), I've just tested out my wheezy old central heating system in anticipation of the winter, and the Bank Holiday weekend has now arrived.
Is it me, or do the summers seem to get shorter with every passing year?
Give it a few weeks and the nights will be drawing in, we will be waking up to frost in the morning, and counting the months until the spring.
As I write, the weather is dry if a little overcast, and the wind is howling around our newsroom in the sky – as it does pretty much all year round, to be fair. And it is forecast to continue through to Monday, with the Met Office even tantalising us with the prospect of a few sunny intervals. Which beats the traditional downpour we're usually accustomed to.
Bank holidays seem a quaint and somewhat antiquated concept in the increasingly dysfunctional world that is 21st century Britain.........