Or Golden October, being the Teutonic equivalent of Indian Summer.

No-one knows the origin of the North American terminology and it wouldn’t work here anyway, given the lack of aforementioned Indians, none of whom are Red, although we do have a sizeable community of the South Asian variety, those not working in IT or zipping around doing Uber Eats or DoorDash calling me up on a daily basis, telling me that my Mac has a Windows bug and that to solve the issue I should give them unconstrained access to my bank account.

But yesterday was a real cracker – 8°C just before 9am, didn’t get much above 13, not a breath of wind and an easy 80km on the gravel bike.

Here’s some Joe Walsh to get you in the mood

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