One of the less heralded aspects of climate change is that leaves are falling later. I have photographs of Longmeadow carpeted in uncollected leaves in the second week of October, all of them frozen hard. But that hard frost is the key. We rarely get a frost in October at all now and if we do it is a milksop affair, too mild to freeze the leaves from the trees.
But November comes and with it normal leaf-fall service is resumed, and down they
