\nI just noticed that it’s suddenly October. And it’s like autumn came overnight. All of September was sunny and warm, around 20°C. Today has been filled with thunderstorms and heavy showers – the kind that make you really happy to be inside. Indoors it got cold enough for me to put on socks (I’ve been barefoot at home since spring) and wear something with sleeves. And sunlight was sufficiently weak that I turned on the lights when having breakfast.\n<\/p>\n
\nSeptember is a great time of the year, especially when it turns out this nice. Not too hot, not too cold. And it’s a great time to be vegetarian: fruit & veg departments are full of fresh English stuff. Fresh local vegetables (well, not quite local but from within a hundred miles at least) do taste different.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe berry season has not yet ended, so you get strawberries (not as good as Estonian or Swedish ones, but far superior to Belgian or Spanish ones), raspberries, blackberries, redcurrants etc. This is the brief period when strawberries are not sold as just “strawberries” but actually have names – most of which start with E, for some reason: Evie, Elsanta, Everest. And Jubilee.\n<\/p>\n
\nSame with apples: there are juicy flavourful English apples with interesting names like Early Windsor and Worcester Pearmain, instead of just the standard 4 (Royal Gala, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Granny Smith), all of which are rather boring, and have generally been shipped halfway around the world so even the flavour they might have had is mostly gone.\n<\/p>\n
\nSeptember is also mushroom season, so it’s occasionally even possible to find chantarelle mushrooms and other such delicacies (even if those do come from Romania and not Sussex).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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