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What a great month. The leaves are almost all down and the fruit is picked and packed away. November is the time of the year when you know the warm weather has gone and those cosy nights are leading you upto Christmas and the New Year. A sudden chill hardens off great seasonal veg and the last of those should be coming out of the ground. If you can find any blackberries still on the brambles, then it’s been a mild autumn to date.

The seafood is exceptional especially oysters, mussels and scallops. They go perfectly with a celeriac salad and following by hot pear or apple tart. A good fish but a sod to prepare, conger eel is at it’s best. If you like a fish with more bones than a halloween parade, then conger is for you.

Given that this is now the run up to the Santa season, there are also chestnuts, brussel sprouts and goose coming to their peak.

All of this is pales alongside the game season and fantastic venison and guinea fowl.

The only thing missing is squirrel. There has to be some way I can keep them away from the walnut tree