Hey Reader,

I recorded this month's Energy Forecast in the polytunnel (well, until the camera overheated...), tomatoes and cucumbers finally out, the space winding down for winter. Felt fitting, actually, given what October's bringing up.

Same tension I've mentioned before, the pull to get out and do things, against the pull to go inward as the light shortens. This month it's less about picking a side and more about being discerning with where your attention actually goes. Maybe there's something you keep pushing to the bottom of the list because there's the sort of resistance around pushing the comfort zone, and some part of you knows it would change something. That's worth a proper look this month.

The plant that came to me was wild thyme, the low creeping kind that's all over the fells. A hard walk last week taught me something about it, growing close to the ground, in conditions that would stop most things.

Watch the video

And that 'hard walk'? It got me to Sickers Fell - the third of the Howgill 'sleeping elephants'. Somehow I did it in just over 2 hours, but only because my legs were that jiggered I ended up jogging most of the way back down the Dales Highway and Winder. That counts as fell running right?! No idea how my grandfather used to do it on the way up!

Big love,
Sarah