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We had a lousy summer - so did a lot of people in .

In my case, since I love being out in the countryside, it meant lots of very wet walks or hacks on my horse. I bought more adverse-weather clothing this summer than at any time since I was working in Russia in winter.

But we are getting all our lost days back now this autumn.

Even this weekend, which was foggy and sometimes drizzly, produced some spectacular periods of bright, breezy weather and astonishing sunsets.

And last weekend, when my family was delayed meeting me at the stables, I sat for an hour under a tree in the autumn sunshine without a care in the world.

If I could write poetry, I would have been doing it then.

I can't, and anyway, you can't beat Keats:

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