Sunny autumn days are amongst my favourite. They’ve not yet reached the stage where you can include the word ‘crisp’, but it’s getting there. Sunny crisp autumn days are the best.

These reeds are both soft and spiky, and almost dream-like. If I were to dream of reeds then these are the kind I’d have.

Undoubtedly I’ll find out that they aren’t reeds at all, and then I’ll have to remove them from my dreams.