The shortening autumn days always bring us back home; they heighten the importance of warmth, of enclosure, of sitting indoors and closing the curtains on the darkness outside.
Autumn is a time for long walks in the countryside, through the white sunshine of Michaelmas, the purple daisies with their yellow centres, the red apples ripening on the trees, the hedgerows filled with blackberries, past the fields newly ploughed, the low sun glittering on distant windows. It’s a time for making the journey home before it gets dark, for being thankful for having a home to go to, for the familiar, the well-known; for making a proper pot of tea and drinking it out of best china.
In the house I was brought up in, when autumn came, the white, buttery sun would fall on particular squares of carpet which were never reached in summer; after sunset, my mother and father would light a coal fire in the evenings with the gas poker, they would place bread on the fire guard to make toast and we would sit together as a family, watching television. Things were never quite the same when central heating was installed and I used to miss the open fire we’d once enjoyed, the coal shed overfilling.
Those times can never be brought back – but Revisit Your Home makes it possible to return to the places of memory, to sit in front of the same fire, to notice the way the sunlight falls on squares of carpet and enjoy a cup of tea at journey’s end.
