When I last looked, it was summer

Only two days into autumn, and here I am in long pants, sweater and bunnet. You wouldn't read about it! (tr. Whit a scunner!) In truth, at 21C the day was hardly cold, and I enjoyed our small jaunt round to Long Beach, where we used to live before "downsizing" three years ago to the other side of the Bay. I have to return now and then to see the Tollgate Islands as they ought to be seen; from across the water at Surf Beach, they get in each other's way and seem to be just the one island. Oh, here's something else . . . I can kid myself on at Long Beach that the island on the left is really the Sleeping Lion in Edinburgh. Saves a lot on air fares.