Dusk - Episode 6 - MARVEL

Join The Simple Things’ Editor Lisa Sykes and author of The Slow Traveller and regular contributor Jo Tinsley as the clocks go back and we find ourselves in autumn proper. But we’re not going to let that ‘bog’ us down, there are still so many spectacles to see and fun to be had before autumn leaves us for another year.

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Thanks to Austria Tourism for supporting this season To find out more about year-round outdoor adventures in Austria go to Austria.info or follow them @visitaustria

Editing & music by Arthur Cosslett.

On the blog

Crab apple whisky

FOLKLORE | Baddies from the Bog

In the November issue (173) on sale now available to buy here

OUTING | Nature’s fireworks

REFLECTION | Gathering acorns

ALMANAC | Fieldfares

In previous issues on sale now available to buy here

OUTING | Nature’s playground (Issue 172)

LOOKING BACK | Tapestries (issue 171)

KNOW A THING OR TWO | Bogs, fens & marshes (issue 171)

Learn more

Pitlochry Dam and fish ladder, Perthshire

Find your local broadleaf woodlands using The Woodland Trust Find A Wood Map

Wild Rock by Wild Things Publishing

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum