"It's been a lovely day though, and putting the names of the months aside, somehow balanced between the very end of summer and the beginning of fall. Not a day to be indoors so took a walk along the river - lots of sparrow hawks and magpies this year."

Whilst I've been inside all day arguing with some of the most mean spirited, obtuse and thuggish of God's creatures whose passion is to dig up our history and tell no-one - because "they can't be a*sed".

Give me good and honest thieving magpies, and a river instead. We have few enough Autumns (as someone nearly said) to spend a single day in the company of the vexatious and mean.