Happy Monday! It’s officially going to be dark until next year

• Being paid for a day in a garden. The is the Ropewalk Community Garden in Southampton, you can follow them on Instagram @ropewalkcommunitygarden

• Straight (ish) hair, I washed my hair at mums on Tuesday night and couldn’t leave it to dry curly, so straight hair

• A whiskey mac. I know using Irish isn’t traditional but this is what I had!

• My Grandad was famous for being early for everything! I think his motto was ‘why be on time when you can be early?’ I have no real sense of time and I struggle with moving from one state to another, so being on time (and thus not wasting other people’s time) has always been a struggle. This week I had two journeys to Southampton, one for 7:30am and I was convinced that the next day it was 6:30am. Until I got to the station at 6:20am and realised that it was 7:00am. I was an entire 40 minutes early! I look like my Grandad, I’m left handed like my Grandad and apparently his timekeeping genes are asserting themselves!

• Colder weather. Autumn properly arrived over the weekend. I had to find my gloves!