Autumn is here

I have a cold. Autumn is playing with the leaves outside. This calls for hot honey and lemon, a sugar hit and a quick sketch or two in between sneezes. Right now I have a pumpkin on my desk, surrounded by an assortment of skulls and my favourite Lyle's Trick or Treacle tin.  Along with the autumnal drawbacks of colds, shortening days and the like, come the fast-approaching twin delights of Halloween and Guy Fawkes' Night...