Howard’s Way Ahead – by Howard Spring

Today I discovered that what Halloween decorations go up must come down, that we can now start watching Christmas movies, that we were already watching Christmas movies anyway, that all our Christmas visitors have started arriving, that the Robins are in the garden and skipping about on the branches to make me stand on two legs with glee, that we have three fat squirrels in the garden eating treats all day, that if I go up to the front room I can look at the squirrels at eye level, that the squirrels don’t seem to care because they know I can’t open the window, that I really need to learn how to open a window …