Monday 30th September. I may have fully embraced the change in the season, but the flowers bloom on. The roses are having a last hurrah. The helianthus is smothered in bees. (I detest the colour but I cannot bring myself to deprive them of it by digging it out.) The cornflowers go on and on and on.

Tuesday 1 October. A hurricane is forecast and I cut what I can. I am trying to dry lots of things for the Christmas workshops but the rain keeps everything damp before I have chance to cut it. The colours seem to intensify every day.

Wednesday 2nd October. The spaniel has a haircut to prepare us for the season of mud. The house is full of daddy long legs and the field is full of puddles and drips. I feel like we may have missed the sharp, crisp, bright Autumn days and have slid straight into Winter. I harvest the strawflowers that have gone over and push out their seeds with my thumb. The side buds, where the flowers have not fully opened to show the yellow centre, are wired and laid out to dry.

Thursday 3rd October. A long day in Bristol, lifted by a trip to Midgley Green on the way home. I intended to buy only some Rebecca Proctor bowls for photographing the spools of hand dyed ribbon, but came home also with a concrete plate. There are a lot of photographs to take. (Ribbons below are hand dyed by Heirloom Silk using plant dyes.)

Friday 4 October. Parcels from vistaprint of postcards and stickers. I spend the morning photographing them, and then they go out with the mad run on Piggy Sue seeds that seems to have happened. It got out on instagram that I am the only stockist in the world of this absolutely perfect sweet pea, and there has been something of a feverish rush since. People are ordering them ten at a time. I hear rumours that people are bragging to their neighbours about getting their hands on them.

Saturday 5 October. Baileys Home put an order in for seeds to stock in their shop this Christmas. Baileys has been a) one of the most aesthetically inspiring brands I have come across in my life and b) my dream dream stockist. I am completely and utterly thrilled. I mean, you know who Baileys are, but here is the link anyway.

The other person who has inspired me to take this path in life is Sarah Ryhanen of Saipua, formerly of Brooklyn, now of New York State (picture of World's End Farm below). Not only does she have the best design eye in the business, she is also quite maverick in terms of how she goes about things. If you want to lose a few hours and start to doubt everything you ever thought you knew, I can highly recommend her journal. So. I am genuinely honoured excited to announce that I am going to be the only UK stockist of the world-famous Saipua soaps. The thing that started it all. They are being shipped as I write this, and hopefully will make it here and up on the website in plenty of time for Christmas.