Autumn Is Upon Us!

Hello to you

I recently said this in my Good Housekeeping column:

As you may know, I’m someone who loved my school days - I genuinely look back them as some the happiest of my life. So, I often reflect fondly- and a little wistfully- at this time of the year as school and university terms are back up and running. 

Often in Autumn I might find myself seeking out a new pencil case, a jotter, some new shoes, a lunchbox, maybe even a protractor (although I have no idea how to use it, or what one really even is if I’m honest!). I don’t go so far as to hang a ‘uniform’ out the night before the first Monday of ‘term’ but the feeling of beginning something new, or starting again is one I wholeheartedly embrace at this time of year.

Colleagues are returning from their time away or taking regular summer day trips (something I think we should try and embrace all year around – beaches in Winter are awesome) and letting long summer evenings linger. Autumn ushers in a more ‘term time’ pace and structure and I enjoy it! I’m a big fan of the energy that ‘start-new-things’ invites, and what better time to start-new-things than in the season when a large number of our communities are doing just that, as they’re back in school, work and college. 

So with that, I hope whatever you are getting back to this season brings you some joy and meaning. And for anyone who may feel heavy hearted or unfulfilled be it at work or school, then I hope you can find the reasons why that might be so and take the courage to share and perhaps make the change you need to. 

There’s always hope for change. Things can get better.