Is the payoff worth it?
Autumnal musings The pumpkins are ripe, shiny orange jewels lie in amongst muddy fields, the smell of bonfires creeps into nostrils, and crunchy, delicious looking leaves wait to be trodden on throughout the countrysides. This season, where crisp cautious sunshine doesn't warm your bones as it did in summertime, where long stomps are chilly and satisfying and end in great talks over a cider or a cozy hot chocolate curled up in front of a log burning stove. The season with the best colours nature can offer (according to me). It is also a season of new beginnings for me. I have to be honest, I have found this blog post particularly tricky to write. The last post I wrote, I quickly deleted, for fear that the person of whom I was writing would exact some kind of retribution and I would be blacklisted from the teaching profession forever. Taking the post down was done out of fear, but also at the wise advice of some of my very close friends who care about my future and my reputation. I