Swapping to winter tyres. The streets aren’t icy yet, but the ground in the garden is crispy instead of soggy and muddy, and the mornings have been frosty for a while. Don’t want to be taken by surprise.

The actual swapping is a one-person job. We can’t exactly remove two tyres at the same time. But there are enough side tasks – jacking up and jacking down, putting away the summer tyres and rolling out the winter ones – to keep a helper busy almost all the time. Except for a few pauses for photos.