What are you looking forward to this Autumn?

Do you have SAD BlueBelle?

Autumn is a lovely colourful season GSM BUT it is a wicked witch leading me with a rye smile into the cold miserable dark cold days of winter it s the time of dying immediately before death

Now spring leads me into warmth, lighter nights and mornings and the fantastic thoughts, of new, of beginnings with all the hope of growth I can throw off the drab heavy clothes and let my body feel the warmth and my eyes see the sun and bright skies the birds trees and flowers all starting again
I m not a winter person

Woolly socks.
Woolly jumpers.
Autumn leaves.
Hot chocolate in my flask on a long walk.
The fantastic autumn flower beds at a local garden open to the public.
No more fruit flies (they have been bad this year)

Watching nature at its best whilst walking/driving along the countryside.

Getting rid of the awful heat of summer and nice cool winds of autumn. Lovely changing colours outdoors and like Harris soups, stews, and time to read a good book. What's not to like.

Love early drawing of the curtains. Warm baths early nights good books. Soups stews and casseroles. The leaves falling softly love it!

Autumn is lovely for all the reasons given but I’m a spring and summer person even though born in January.
However this autumn will be very special for me as my oldest, closest and most wonderful friend will be here in three more weeks for our five yearly catch up. Back to childhood for a whole month, woohoo.

I'm usually a spring person and dislike the autumn but after this very hot summer I am looking forward to the cooler weather. Let's spare a thought for those living on their own though. The long, dark evenings are alright if one has company but probably not so for those on their own. Luckily there is always GN to provide a bit of 'company'.

I’ll be making my usual batch of Sloe Gin tomorrow.

I have picked a lot of blackberries too and am looking forward to making blackberry cobbler (I don’t have any apples for a crumble which I really like).

Picked some blackberries today - looking forward to picking more (and blackberry and apple crumble later!)

New dramas on the telly, the return of Strictly and Bake Off, getting the knitting out and finishing a jumper I started before the heatwave, soups, casseroles, reading and starting a decorating project (yet to be decided?)

I like early Autumn nice warm jumpers and big scarfs but it leads into Winter which is always dark, miserable and wet.

Think the last couple of years have been made worse with no Christmas shopping in New York, (enjoy Minimoon) or escape to the Sun in January or February. My excuse is I need a big dose of Vitamin D.

I think I love Spring best, seeing the days get longer and brighter, trees and plants coming back to life.
I like Summer because dressing is so easy - no coats and boots and warm layers just to walk a mile down the road - and the warm mornings and evenings.
Autumn is lovely with all the changing colours but I hate having to brush all the leaves and acorns off the drive when they're about six inches deep.
I like the crisp cold mornings in Winter but by February I am fed up with dark mornings and desperate to see the sun. Snow is lovely for a day but once it turns to slush and ice and makes the paths and roads hazardous I can live happily without it. Roll on Spring!

I’m afraid to say absolutely nothing! So much darkness and cold to come before the Spring. Too much time stuck indoors and far too much tv. Too many coats, gloves etc. Driving in the dark. It’s not for me at all.

I read somewhere that it all depends when you were born re which season you enjoy the best. I was born in May and enjoy the first signs of Spring right through to the Summer.
I hate the Autumn and Winter because of the dark nights/mornings and where I live, it's nearly always raining. Not very cold just rain, rain, and more rain.

Yesterday was slightly chilly and very wet- autumn is on the way! There are sparrows and tits back on the feeders in the garden as the grain harvest ( a little early this year) is now in. Flocks of geese, hooting loudly, will soon gather to fly off. Blackberries are ready to pick ( and plumping up now there is rain) and after all the summer salads I think a casserole or apple and blackberry crumble would be lovely! I like spring best!

I love autumn. The little sparrows and robins living in our hedges will miss us during autumn, there is no one to feed them.
We will be travelling to a very hot and humid country, I am looking forward to having a quintessential English high tea in a colonial garden setting in a hotel there, a birthday gift from my daughter.

I am so jealous MiniMoon
I’m off to ? in December.
Have you been before? If not, may I suggest buying a bus pass to use the hop on/hop off tour buses which leave from Times Square every few minutes. Do a complete circuit, then stay on the bus snd get off at your first place of interest. Using the bus will help you see the walking distance between the various places you want to visit - often better than getting back on the bus again - the locals walk. One thing I can thoroughly recommend is watching the sunset from the top of the Freedom Tower.

Autumn is my favourite season. The colours on a beautiful day, the cosiness of being indoors if its wet and wild,winter foods and batch cooking soups and stews.Sweeping up leaves,planting bulbs and spending hours in the garden.It's also the time I most enjoy a long rambles with our dogs without worrying about us getting hot and bothered.Frustratingly this year I have I have torn a cartilage in my knee and I'm really restricted physically I'm not a very patient person and I'm itching to do all my usual activities.Instead I will have to be sensible and try not to comfort eat my way through autumn or witnout my usual very active routine no clothes will fit by Xmas !

What a lovely thread. ???

I will be catching up with reading - books and on my Kindle. I will also be starting an exercise programme I just purchased and I look forward to cooking stews and soup as I have eaten a lot of salad this summer. I am also hoping to do some decluttering and will try to persuade my DH to declutter his man cave and the garage so I can get at my treadmill.

I love every season as each one has something going for it.
Under normal circumstances though I am usually a bit sad to see the end of summer but as we have had such a long hot dry one this year, autumn with its cooler temperatures ( and hopefully some rain for our poor parched landscape) will be quite welcome.

As far as I’m concerned there is no need to travel abroad for beautiful autumn colours as we have them here in abundance most years.

being alive

BigBertha1

Oh yes and being 70 in February deep joy.

Me too Bigbertha what date?…?