Summer's (almost) gone.

No one can say it in a more melancholy way than Jim Morrison, and that just adds to my feeling of 'where did it go?'.  I know that many of you, in Valencia, at least, are looking forward to the cooler days and have suffered from lack of sleep thanks to tropical nights where the thermometer didn't go below 29º. You can't wait to put on jeans and jerseys, thick socks and boots, snuggle up under the duvet with your hottie (that's English for nothing more exciting than a hot water bottle). However, I think we all know that summer hasn't really gone and the cooler weather won't kick in until after the 9 d'octubre holiday, as has been the norm for the last few years.  But it is time to think about taking a look at the backpack and seeing if it will last another school/uni year, seeing if you've got enough notebooks and other items of stationery, and mustering up enthusiasm for the 'back to school/uni/work' week that is looming. The first days seem hard, but every year you get back into the swing of it and before you know it, it's...Christmas!