What are you looking forward to this Autumn?

Some cooler fresher weather....if we get any. It is still so warm and the humidity is making it really muggy and suffocating, made worse by all of the torrential rain.

I find breathing really difficult in this type of weather. Bring on crisp frosts and some cool fresh breezes

I totally agree with Bluebell, but couldn’t have put it so poetically! Although a February baby I’m definitely a Spring person. I love the New Year when you really notice the evenings getting lighter. Although I have to say I’m not sorry to be able to pack the wobbly bits away!

Well, the heat-wave so many of you have complained about (not specifically on this thread) started so late here that it feels as if we hardly had any summer and I adore the heat.

Autumn: I soon won't need to mow the grass, or weed the vegetable patch. Pure bliss. Hope next summer when DH finally gets his pension we can afford a gardener!

Soon time to start house-cleaning. I know many of you think me odd, but I love housework and cooking.

Soon be Christmas too - the very best time of the year.

Our kittens will be fully vaccinated on Thursday, so I shall start taking them out on their leads. Next spring will be time enough to let them go out alone.

I love the heat and light of spring and summer, and I just make the best of the autumn. I think there’s an air of melancholy about autumn though, and although harvesting is good, I don’t enjoy putting the garden to bed, and I dread those dank, cold miserable days heralding the winter. Winter is the pits. I go into my garden every morning to look for even the tiniest shoot of hope for the spring.

The only thing I look forward to at the end of a long hot summer, I love the heat, is warm towels after my shower.

So good to see the end of Summer with the awful heatwaves and boring clothes. Bring on the season of wearing boots and cashmere scarves, Lovely cool weather and don't mind the wild storms etc. Love the smell of Autumn, the sound of crackling leaves and the beautiful colours.

I am hopefully getting a new hip before the end of the year so I an looking forward to the benefits that will bring. Can't say I am really a fan of Autumn or Winter as I live alone in a rather isolated location and the days are so short.

I have a beautiful Acer tree which changes to red, yellow and orange still with green undertones. It is starting to turn now.
I also have a rowan tree which produces white berries which become suffused with pink when the leaves have dropped. It looks like a tree covered in blossom till the flock of waxwings and bull finches come and strip it in a weekend in January. They need searching for but there are always some flowers in the garden right through winter

How anyone could be even a little happy about the 'end of Summer' is absolutely and totally beyond me!!! Maybe I'm biased because I live in the the country with a beautiful view and a garden to sit in but honestly...swap long warm sunny days, reading a book while sipping a cool drink and alfresco dining etc for drawing the curtains at 4.30pm and having to spend money on heating and lighting...Seriously?!

cariad, the Summer makes me feel ill.
I’m not alone.
The heat, the brightness, all of the sensory overload that we Summer loathes have.
I would never diminish the feelings of people who suffer in the Winter.
Is it so difficult to understand that people experience things differently?

New series of Doc Martin. Hope they don’t kill him off though …

LucyW - best wishes for your hip operation.??
polly123 - I couldn’t have put it better myself! It’s the cosiness and colours of Autumn - plus a new series of Autumnwatch! ?

Just wondering - why am I getting adverts for engagement rings on Gransnet?! Not really the best demographic…??

What a gorgeous post!! I love the smell of autumn walks, the chill in the air then home to lovely hot bath and an evening by the telly with a new drama, the curtains shut and the candles lit.

The pros: My jumpers and boots, curled up with a book and a hot chocolate and the colours of the trees.
The cons: Winter's next, Xmas stuff everywhere and dark nights.

Harvest festival, autumn colours in the trees, piles of scrunchy fallen leaves, my nerines flowering. An extra hour in bed when the clocks change.

Retiring, counting down, just a few weeks now.

Fleurpepper - Now you have me imagining me in my 'boxers'!!!
Should have included the word 'dogs' just didn't think!!

Being able to walk! (Broken ankle)

TanaMa

Fleurpepper - Now you have me imagining me in my 'boxers'!!!
Should have included the word 'dogs' just didn't think!!

hi hi hi did make me giggle, thanks.

Daftbag1

Being able to walk! (Broken ankle)

Commiserations, Daftbag
Hope it mends well.

Cool weather .... nothing else I can't afford it!

Autumn colours of the trees!

GrannyGravy13

Georgesgran

I’m in agreement with Maw, the only downside being all the ?stuff on display in the shops. Next already have some out.

The Next I went into today had Hallowe’en bits nothing Christmas themed.

On Monday the Card Factory had masses of Christmas cards and carrier bags, and Sainsbury’s had a load of chocolate Father Christmases etc., which you passed as soon as you walked into the shop.

Shouldn’t wish your life away but in honesty i don’t mind Autumn but hate winter and look forward to spring. I am not that bothered about the temperature but I hate the dark mornings and it getting dark so early in the day.
Not a fan of Christmas either

Venison chilli with borlotti beans cooked by my husband, homemade spicy pumpkin soup, roast chicken and leftovers, will be doing some bulk cooking in the oven this year and freezing portions.

walking on dry scrunchy leaves, an excuse to wear my old cashmere jumpers including a deep ruby red one that always cheers me up - hope the moths haven’t got to it.

Wearing my beautiful big coat I bought from Oxfam online.

That said I have loved the hot summer and watching the few things I planted grow into summer from Spring and will miss my fresh herbs from the garden .

I hate driving home from work in the dark and icy refrozen roads.

Might be bbqing a duck for Christmas at this rate! We have ordered a big bag of charcoal…

Holiday in the warm planned for early in the New Year. Fingers crossed .

Marks and Spencer’s getting low in stock on thermals apparently!