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12 home things for the changing seasons

I couldn’t decide how to describe this one and ‘home things’ seems to be the best I can muster at 1am, after three hours of sleep last night. Don’t mind me, folks – professional writer coming through with the fun names.

I reserve the right to spontaneously change the title and sub-title to something clever when I’m recharged and feeling fresh. Which might be tomorrow. Or never. I promise this newsletter gets more riveting as it goes on….

This was intended to be a cheerful list of home-related things I’d seen over the past week with no particular theme, but looking at it all together, there’s definitely an autumn vibe. This reminds me, I really must use my black cat stickers this year. I bought a load of Halloween-themed stationery from Choosing Keeping in Covent Garden a few years ago because I think we’re all powerless to resist a magical stationery shop. Anyway, I don’t particularly like cats and I never use stickers but maybe now’s the time…

I’m actually quite up for autumn as I am not a person whose sickly lilac skin looks radiant in minimal clothing. Ideally no autumn weather until next week though – we’re going to Spain for four days this week to try and squeeze the final drops out of summer. It’s our first fly-and-flop holiday in nine years (I usually make us move from small hotel to small hotel every night or two), and we have no plans this time besides lowering our cortisol levels in the sun. Reader, the forecast is not looking good at all. I’ve seen the word thunderstorm multiple times…

Anyway, scroll down for a few things that caught my eye and don’t forget to like/restack/recommend my publication if you’re into this kind of thing. It makes a significant difference to the potential new readers I’m able to reach. You’d be doing me a huge kindness and as the great Take That once sang in their cover version, It only takes a minute, girl.