This has been a beautiful autumn, with the wet spring, long warm summer and late arrival of gales and storms allowing the colours to form and hold…. The Tulip Tree that I pass on my Tuesday walks to and from Sion Hill Campus from Bath-Spa Train Station has provided me with moments of wonder as the season turns. Given that my mind is so full of thoughts and the pressures of trying to maintain a freelance business, build and fit-out a new workshop, re-start my ceramic practice and build ideas as part of our Research Methodologies module, these moments of wonder are vital re-connections with the natural world that stop me in my tracks….