I associate this time of year with memories of childhood and younger adulthood because this is around the time the following year's Hoseasons and Blakes brochures were released. I can remember, in the days when there were many travel agents on the high street, walking into the agents and asking if the brochures were available. Invariably they weren't and I ended up receiving them in the post. Either way I would pour through them, work out what was new (or invariably, which boatyards had stopped hiring). As much as that though, in cold November days the brochures were a reminder of sunny boating time.