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It is the first of the month and that means the November edition of As the Season Turns, my podcast with .co, is out now...
01/11/2025

It is the first of the month and that means the November edition of As the Season Turns, my podcast with .co, is out now.
Join us as we crunch along leafy paths and wander the hedgerows, gathering sloes and the last apples. We visit the Forest of Dean in search of a once-extinct mammal and hear tales of the Erl-King’s daughter under the light of the Deepest Depths Moon. All accompanied by new music from fabulous and his band.
Find us wherever you find your podcasts 🎧 🔥🍄🍂🍁 🎶

🍄🔥🍁 NOVEMBER 🍁🔥🍄1 - Samhain 🔥 1 - All Saints’ Day ✝️2 - All Souls’ Day ✝️5 - Guy Fawkes Night 💥9 - Remembrance Sunday 11...
01/11/2025

🍄🔥🍁 NOVEMBER 🍁🔥🍄
1 - Samhain 🔥
1 - All Saints’ Day ✝️
2 - All Souls’ Day ✝️
5 - Guy Fawkes Night 💥
9 - Remembrance Sunday
11 - Armistice Day
11 - Martinmas 🪿
20 - Beaujolais Nouveau Day 🍷
23 - Stir-Up Sunday 🧑‍🍳
27 - Thanksgiving 🦃
30 - 1st Sunday in Advent ✝️
30 - St Andrew’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The dark is really here now. I hope you can sink into all that is cosy about the month ahead, while also embracing its thrills. We light fires against the encroaching gloom, filling the sky with sparkles, fighting the darkness.
Image is from the November chapter of my book The Almanac 2025, with illustrations by . The 2026 edition is out now.


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Samhain/Hallowe’en - such a magical, mischief filled time…Very proud of my pumpkin! And we are well stocked and ready fo...
31/10/2025

Samhain/Hallowe’en - such a magical, mischief filled time…
Very proud of my pumpkin! And we are well stocked and ready for the ghouls tonight…

Competition time. To celebrate the publication of my ninth almanac, is running a competition to win £500 of vouchers! ...
25/10/2025

Competition time. To celebrate the publication of my ninth almanac, is running a competition to win £500 of vouchers! Wish I could enter this one myself…
Find the link in my stories/highlights

In May we are reissuing my book The Twilight Gardener, all about the delights of the garden at dusk and beyond. And this...
16/10/2025

In May we are reissuing my book The Twilight Gardener, all about the delights of the garden at dusk and beyond. And this week has made it part of its preorder promotion! Get 25% off on Waterstones.com and on the Waterstones app with the offer code OCTOBER25 if you order by the end of Friday.
Link in my stories.
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Almost out of time on greenhouse tom ripening…but not quite yet. Beauties still just about coming.
05/10/2025

Almost out of time on greenhouse tom ripening…but not quite yet. Beauties still just about coming.

Moon phases for October 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌝Find all your moon phases for the whole year ahead in my book, The Almanac 2026. Links in m...
04/10/2025

Moon phases for October
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Find all your moon phases for the whole year ahead in my book, The Almanac 2026. Links in my bio and my stories.
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🕸️🍂🍄 OCTOBER 🍄🍂🕸️1 - Start of Black History Month1-2 - Yom Kippur ✡️6-13 - Sukkot ✡️10 - Old Michaelmas Day 🪿 20 - Diwal...
01/10/2025

🕸️🍂🍄 OCTOBER 🍄🍂🕸️

1 - Start of Black History Month
1-2 - Yom Kippur ✡️
6-13 - Sukkot ✡️
10 - Old Michaelmas Day 🪿
20 - Diwali 🪔
21 - Apple Day 🍎 🍏
26 - End of British Summer Time 🕰️
31 - Hallowe’en 👻
31 - Samhain 🔥

It is beautiful October! Wishing you walks in the woods, thermoses of soup, mushrooms, crunchy leaves, cosy fires and good knitwear.
All of this info is from my book, The Almanac, image by the 2025 edition’s illustrator . The 2026 edition with illustrations by is out now! Links in my bio and stories, or find it st your local bookshop.
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Michaelmas Day, 29th September This is the day the archangel Michael threw Satan out of heaven. According to country fol...
29/09/2025

Michaelmas Day, 29th September
This is the day the archangel Michael threw Satan out of heaven. According to country folklore he landed in a blackberry bush, and cursed it, spat on it or worse, depending on locality. It is considered bad luck to eat blackberries after this date (ours are well over anyway this year…)

Info from my book, The Almanac, the2026 edition of which is out now

The autumn equinox falls today. At 7.19pm - the moment of the equinox - the sun will be directly above the equator. This...
22/09/2025

The autumn equinox falls today. At 7.19pm - the moment of the equinox - the sun will be directly above the equator. This is the day when the sun rises directly in the east, and day and night are briefly equal, before the northern hemisphere tips further away from the sun, and night becomes dominant.
We are slipping into the dark half of the year.
Light your candles, plump your sofa pillows, put out some blankets, start taking your vitamin D drops. Cosy cardis will be required.
We can do this… 🍂 🕯️ 🔥
All info from my book, The Almanac 2025. The 2026 edition is now available, see links in my bio.

Whistle stop tour of *beautiful* Bath bookshops today signing The Almanac 2026. Thank you for having me and !
08/09/2025

Whistle stop tour of *beautiful* Bath bookshops today signing The Almanac 2026. Thank you for having me and !

LUNAR ECLIPSE 🌚🌒🌓🌔🌝There will be a full lunar eclipse tonight, with the moon rising fully eclipsed at 7.30pm. Find yours...
07/09/2025

LUNAR ECLIPSE 🌚🌒🌓🌔🌝
There will be a full lunar eclipse tonight, with the moon rising fully eclipsed at 7.30pm. Find yourself a spot with a view to the eastern horizon for a chance to see it…
IF these clouds clear… ⛈️
Find all your moon phases and eclipses for the year ahead in my book, The Almanac 2026, links in my bio and stories.

Image: God Creates the Moon and Sun from Guyart des Moulins’s Bible Historiale c1420, British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

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