They'll Never Find It

If you thought this was all about apple juice, well here's the truth behind the veil. 2 grams of Mangrove Jack's yeast in each of these and they will be bubbling like a swamp by the morning

The kind of clear, crisp autumn day on which someone has dialled up both contrast and saturation to 11. A foray across the frontier into Northamptonshire was the perfect way to appreciate it. Northants is the forgotten county - notoriously, it's where you drive through on the way to somewhere else. But, like the demi-johns, it's my little secret. On a day like today it was magnificent: hedges with ridiculously too many leaves; trees denser than trees should grow; all the leaves still vibrant green, but somehow also turning to autumn colours; the ironstone cottages rich, glowing stone; and a sky like you only ever see on estate agent details

Yes, of course I took pictures, but you needed to know where the cider is