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Country Diary

September is a month of change. Colours move from the dusty green of August to early autumn tones. There is no riot of hues yet in the woods and hedgerows, merely a shift, an acknowledgement that summer is at its end. We say goodbye to the turtle doves, swallows, swifts and martins. The cuckoos are already long gone.

Alongside change, it is a time of bounty. Harvest 2020 is over in Suffolk. The

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