It’s that time of the year of warm colours and cold air. What’s needed are brisk country walks and slow pub lunches plus the odd roaring fire. Just back from Sussex around Firle and Barlcombe – beautiful churches and end of the season gardens, The weather on my wife’s birthday is always sunny and we were not let down. Weekends away inspire different pallets and textures and helps me both as interior inspiration and in my role as design director at Tibor fabrics