I love this time of year so much. We've had a brilliant Summer - just like the summers we remember from childhood and it's lovely to know they're not mythical - we still get them! Sunshine, warmth, enough rain to keep everything lush - and then the recent Indian Summer. Just perfect really. I've picked loads and loads of blackberries and with help of the first proper crop from a young cooking apple tree called Lord Derby I've enough blackberry and apple in the freezer to remind me of the wonderful harvest right through the Winter. My sister Penny and I had a great trip to Majorca earlier this month and as well as being in and out of the water like seals every day we did quite a bit of paint