General Chat

Dear All

Hello

Officially, we are now at the start of Autumn.

It can also be called the festival of harvest and gratitude.

This is a good time to release past memories and move forward with purpose to make long term plans and to nurture them.

The seeds of ideas and hopes need to be sown to re-emerge in the Spring.

Day and night are now equal in length.

Sometimes, the transition of one season into another seems to be chaotic, but you need to have confidence and trust.

Enjoy the sunsets and the autumn leaves.

Very best wishes
xx

I find it a most depressing time of the year...but that's just me:-) BC XX

My favorite time of year :))
Clairex

I've just noticed, actually, over the last few days the change in the colour of the trees. Been driving up and down to check on my photos and there is a definite difference in the look of the countryside now compared to three weeks ago when I put the work up.

I like autumn - I think the trees look more interesting. The bit I don't like is when the leaves drop, it rains and the pavement gets slippery!

Dear Ladies

Hello

Thank you for your kind replies.

Now don't get jealous - but for our Aussie cousins,
its the first day of Spring!!

Best wishes to all
xx

Elizabeth. Don't know about Autumn, it's like flaming winter outside tonight.

High winds, rain, and miserable lol

Just typical Scottish weather then!!!!!!

Autumn------wonderful English word

conjours up all sorts of colourful shades and picturesque scenes, as the trees change colour and begin to lose their leaves......
much better than the American Version.........

" Fall"

Bob

Yep this is the time when you start noticing that it is ""Getting Late, Earlier""

Bob

I love Autumn, but do find it somewhat melancholic... a time for reflection, and for planning ahead, of decay, but with the promise of new life ahead.... I always want to go into hibernation for a few weeks at the start of Autumn.... sort of like it feels a bit voyeuristic, watching a beautiful lady suddenly lose all her glory!! lol

Whimsical, I know. I am looking forward to the Christmas frenzy this year, lolol!!

Love

Daff xxxx

Dear all

Hello

Bob....... I agree I don't like the term "Fall".
Lovely coloured leaves. I used to collect them when I was a kid.

Daff........yes, it would be nice to hibernate, just like our furry friends do!

Hope you are both keeping well.

Best wishes
xx

Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness. (well somebody had to say it).


I feel a bit ambivalent towards autumn. Love the autumn colours and the days when we get that lovely autumn sunshine and glorious sunsets, but, as I dislike the cold intensely and know that winter follows autumn, that I don't like. But I do like Christmas.

When I was a child one of the things I remember about autumn was the smell of wood smoke, Nowadays I don't like bonfire smoke when it seeps into the house but somehow the smell of woodsmoke to me as a child signified autumn. I suppose people were perhaps burning the fallen leaves. Autumn also means apples and apple picking which I did in my 20s, taking my youngest with me, we had great fun. It will soon be time to visit the local arboretum to see the acer trees, al wonderful site on a crisp dry day with the leaves of other trees crunching underfoot.

I like this time of year, but then I am an autumn born person. Always makes me think of jellies and jams, pickles and preserves. All the harvest that OH hase been growing all year on the allotment. Made some Apple and Chilli Jelly the other day, with some cookers a fellow allotmentor sent up. OH bringing up loads of onions and shallots for those lovely one-pot meals I am looking forward to cooking in the Aga bottom oven, whilst I get on with something else. That's if I can get near the door of the oven, for the dog.
I am hoping that the weather holds at the moment as I am busy getting the garden 'put to bed' for the winter. Sorting out plants, those that can go, and those that need overwintering. Can't stick a pin on the conservatory window sills, that many plants to look after. The changing leaves on the trees and the berries appearing. Once the central heating goes on, I will set up some knitting or crocheting to while away the afternoons, with no gardening to do.
I have washed up a couple of winter jackets in readiness, and polished boots aswell. I do not mind the autumn, and like many, have to endure the winter, but, hey ho, in the second week of January, the garden centres have the seed potatoes in, and we start all over again, ordering seeds and for us next year, some new fruit trees that OH is busy preparing the ground for at the moment.
And, our Christmas dinner at the Dickensian Inn is already booked, well you have to book early to get in, and I have my Christmas Day outfit hanging ready. I bought a lovely soft cream Pringle gilet at an Agricultural show recently, the last show for this year, and decided to match it to an Aubergine Chenille sweater I already have, and worn only once. Tut,Tut, Julia.
So,life still goes on, no matter the season, it is just different interests take priority as the weather changes, and I look forward to the spring, and praise the Lord, that I have managed another year. Well, you do you know, when you get to my age LOL.
Have a good one
Julia in Derbyshire

Dear All

Hello

Thank you all for adding your replies and thoughts.

Take care of yourselves and your families.

Best wishes
xx

I left UK six years ago and I missed the wonderful autimns in the UK.

The glorious skies, the magnificent colours on the trees, the sudden and unexpected sunny day, the promise of what is to come with the reminder of what we have had.

The gathering of everything of the fruits and veg, the cleaning process to allow the winter and spring plants the space etc to grow.

Where I live now there are really only two seasons Winter and Summer so ..........I have taken a nother contrat=ct and am coming back to UK on 2nd Oct. I will be near the sea, and the wonderful countryside of Sussex, I will see the autumn, I will feel the frost,,and most likley moan about it, I will relish the experience.




Enjoy it everyday and then Christams to look forward to and maybe even some snow!!!! WOW


Bridget