The children go back to school tomorrow here in the village - the start of another year, the start of some little peoples' academic lives as they leave their mothers' or carers' sides and venture into that big, wide, scary but exciting world. It's the last year of school for my youngest son - and the first year of music college for my oldest. My final year of my counselling Diploma, and already I am gathering and being givern information on a particularly tempting Masters degree in Counselling with Narrative Therapy at its core. Almost too good to resist on preliminary enquiry - but a year to discover more.

It has been a delight to write about my Month in the Country and to read all the inspired writing that has ensued from some of the journal prompts. I hope that those of you who have followed these pages will continue to be inspired by those prompts - printing them out and perhaps returning to them to create something anew each time they are read.

A new Autumn Cottage Diary website is in the pipeline, and other ideas are brewing. But for the moment, to all my readers, I proffer my thanks to you for turning up here at the page to read and to write. At the end of this summer month in England, for now, I bid you all Adieu.

Journal prompt What new adventures are beginning for you at this time of the year? A new college course? A new hobby or interest? Children starting school or leaving home? Or perhaps at the moment, just thoughts on possible new adventures, new horizons, percolating in your mind. If you have not done so already, I urge you to try putting some of your thoughts on paper. Go ahead, there are no rules, anyone can do it! My last thoughts for now are those emblazoned across the front of my sweatshirt - "Write it down - make it real - keep a journal!"