A Christmas shopping trip turns into a chance to catch up on pony gossip for Tessa Waugh , who is on the back foot as far as present buying is concerned but replete with tales of happy new homes

Nadia Shaikh seeks good company for a search-and-gorge to get her through the ruthless darkness of the winter months

Going hunting without your own hunter is an increasingly popular choice for a range of reasons, finds Lucy Higginson

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

AND now the leaves suddenly lose strength… New ...

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel