Autumn has come early this year

grandtanteJE65

Reading Monica's post made me realise how different things are here.

Here (South Denmark) the leaves start changing colour towards the end of August - the rowanberries are ripe, the elderberries are done, as per usual in the second week of September.and the apple harvest has finished very early.

But although the evenings and mornings are colder than a month ago, the days have been much warmer - finally. We have had the wettest summer on record since the Met. office was started in 18 - something or other!

I have always said you are a month ahead of us, it follows with the school holidays too. I remember some beautiful summers year in year out in Denmark in the 40s and 50s. Childhood memories

Spent an hour today brushing up acorns from the drive. Absolutely huge acorns this year but I don't know why. The garden waste bin now weighs a ton.

JamesandJon33 Lands End do a low rise trouser, which on most people means just below the waist, but in my case means fits nicely to the waist. This is why I buy them. I have a real problem with so many trousers at present being high rise. For me that means a comfy fit under the armpits!

So many squirrels at the moment making a real mess of my potted plants, every year is the same, and of course there are the big spiders that spin webs everywhere in the garden, I go out with a broom handle when I walk through the garden, swinging it from side to side so I don’t walk through a web.

Thanks MOnica I shall try low rise. The ones I have now are rather like wearing a corset

AreWeThereYet

Spent an hour today brushing up acorns from the drive. Absolutely huge acorns this year but I don't know why. The garden waste bin now weighs a ton.

Mine is full of cider apples, I felt so guilty about the weight of it that yesterday I filled all the garden trugs and buckets I could find and took more fallen apples to the recycling centre - the wind and rain seems to be speeding up the rate at which they are falling from the tree this year.

I went to pick a few blackberries to go in an apple crumble but they are very few and far between now. I thought we’d have a few more Autumn crumbles before the end of October.
My dad forbade us from picking blackberries after 31st October because the devil would have spat on them - no danger of that this year!

Colder and windier here today. For the first time I wore a jumper and have put on my thicker dressing gown. Am not unhappy about it though, down here at least we had a summer unlike those further North. And tbh weather in Croatia and Italy has been far worse, a friend in Lake Garda reports terrible storms for several days and torrential rain that lasts all day or all night. She also tells me that her daughter and Sil are in Split in Croatia and is terrible weather there.
So will take what we have here.

It flamming well is, my legs are purple with the cold today, sat with a blanket & hot water bottle as I don’t want to put the heating on😩

Mt61

It flamming well is, my legs are purple with the cold today, sat with a blanket & hot water bottle as I don’t want to put the heating on😩

Yes we won’t put heating on yet either, is too early, despite the chill, are determined not to be ripped off too royally by our energy company. My DH has an electric over blanket which is fleecy, it doesn’t use much electric and is better than a hot water bottle. Last time I looked they average at about £40, so not cheap but my DH got a lot of mileage out of it last year and will certainly use it again.
Take care x

Yes Babs03, I bought one earlier in the year. It was a Godsend when I was poorly. Much better than my hot water bottle. It’s cheap to run too. We’ve had a rotten summer up here in the far northwest. So much more rain than usual and hardly any warm spells. The garden has been a complete washout.

We are fortunate enough to have spent last couple of months on West Coast of France. There was two or three weeks in July that were lovely and warm, hot even on some days, but mostly overcast and cool for the time of year. August has been iffy and September cold and wet! Home tomorrow to I guess more of the same!

biglouis

Im in Manchester and the day has been very warm and sunny, Had to put the fan on in my bedroom for my afternoon nap.

Lucky you 😆

Summerfly

Yes Babs03, I bought one earlier in the year. It was a Godsend when I was poorly. Much better than my hot water bottle. It’s cheap to run too. We’ve had a rotten summer up here in the far northwest. So much more rain than usual and hardly any warm spells. The garden has been a complete washout.

I must invest in one of those, Lakeland had sold out last year, will have a look tomorrow 😊

The central heating came on automatically this morning. Not much and not for long, but it meant the internal temperature of the house had fallen below 18 degrees.

Put our heating on earlier, we’ve been away for a few days and the house was cold, I was walking through scrunchy leaves yesterday,

The forecast for mid Wales is 0 tonight. I hope that doesn’t happen as it will finish off the late summer flowers.

This morning the central heating has come on and has stayed on. At 6.00am it was 3 degrees outside and just under 18 degrees inside.

I am sitting at my desk in a winter nightdress and a thick warm fluffy dressing gown over it. But the sun is shining on the yellowing leaves of the trees that surround us, so gardening is beckoning to me today.

Autumn may be here but although I wore a jumper for the first time the other day the cold snap isn't going to last.
No heating on here yet- but it the equinox is this Sunday so I may put my slippers on!

South West Wales and it is sunny here but very cold. Jumper and socks this morning as we were out early. But no heating on yet .

Ground frost this morning here out in the sticks begonias look decidedly sick, others look OK.

It had the top leaves of my pumpkin, but the dahlias have survived thankfully, I’d like a few more weeks of flowers yet so I’m keeping my fingers crossed - it’s definitely not so cold today.

I also had to put on my slipper boots and long hooded chenile dressing gown this morning. The sun was shining but there was a lot of dew on the window ledges and wheelie bins.

Slept in my “Oodie” last night 🥶🥶🥶

Apparently it’s going to warm up a bit next week! 👍