Darkness, today.

The clocks went back yesterday, which meant that yearly Sunday afternoon when you look up from the sofa / kitchen table / desk / bath and think to yourself "Oh my, it's dark! Already?!" Then you spend the rest of the evening remarking to your housemates, who also look puzzled, just how dark it is.

Then, the next day (always a Monday), you go to work (in the dim morning light) and at 4.30pm, you play the "isn't it dark?!" game again.

All of a sudden everyone goes into a flap, like an office of chickens; all bopping your heads to look out the windows, clucking to yourselves on the change of seasons.

Here's the sight that met me after work this evening. Shiny, deep October darkness.