While we’ve all been clinging to summer - pretending it’s an hour earlier than it actually is - the city has been working with the shorter days: shrugging off leaves, changing palettes and shifting temperature zones.

Now that daylight-savings has finished, we’re back in sync with nature and more in tune with autumn’s pink skies and its orange-, red- and yellow-coloured gardens. It’s the time for brittle mornings that give way to clear, sunny afternoons; cardigans and mittens, then sundresses or T-shirts.

Make some time this week for catching leaves as they fall from surrounding trees or for kicking through gutters filled with leaf litter. Or, do as autumn does, and shed something you no longer need and make way for a period of contemplation.