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The last light of October

Notes on the hour before the clocks change

Catherine · 28 October 2025

There's a particular gold the light goes in the last week of October, right before the clocks change and take it away for months.

We started keeping a note of it a few years ago — nothing more than a line in a notebook. It's exactly the sort of thing that finds its way into an autumn edition.