I love this time of year

[elspeth]

September and October... best months of the year. The best weather of the year (and I say that advisedly, being a Yorkshire native!). I've been out in my garden this morning in the sunshine (now weak enough not to burn me! yay!) planting bulbs to flower in the spring, and counting my blessings, which I realise is a rather trite phrase but it's been a hard few months for me one way and another, and I'm getting to the point where stuff is getting resolved and left behind and I'm feeling happy and positive.

This time of year is always good for me. I can go out without fear of burning in the summer sun, and walking in the local woods as the leaves change colour and start to fall is lovely. I never feel the sense of the old year winding up and dying in autumn, more a sense of hopefullness. Planting next spring's flowers, and even watching the leaves fall and thinking that they'll be helping provide the nutrients for the woodlands to be beautiful again next year. And of course the seasonal food in autumn is some of the best there is, especially for fruit.

Work is also going really well for me at the moment - September marks the start of the new opera season at the theatre I work in - we're doing Madame Butterfly, Falstaff and Croesus. Butterfly especially is getting rave reviews and playing to packed houses, which is great. It bodes well for a really successful winter season for us, which is wonderful.

OK, I've finished eulogising! But I'm feeling happy and just wanted to spread it around a bit!

[term]

I understand what you mean. We have a very beautiful time over here, too, sun is shining, air is mild and fresh, very beautiful. But the picture changes as bad weather, rain and cold winds come. That's why i like spring the most, that is when everything comes alive. Temperatures are perfect, air is fresh but much warmer than in winter and you have everybody making love. Great \o/ 

[thalbergmad]

I love this time of year as well and usually take my holidays in Oct/November.

The kids are all back in school, the beaches and hills are empty and the Hotels and Cottages are a fraction of the price they were in July.

Why people go on holiday in the height of summer i don't know. They pay top prices to get burned to a cinder, queue on motorways and at airports for hours and have to cope with millions of screaming brats.

Thal

[ahinton]

I always have very mixed feelings about this time of year - and I do realise that they are largely unfounded, for all that they seem potent to me. Fall - or autumn as we call it over here in the disunited queendom - undoubtedly has its chamrs, but I simply cannot fend off those awful feelings about things dying, leaves falling and all that sense of failure that this time of year seems to bring. I know that it's not really like that in the greater sense of things, but it just feels like that to me, every year. Perhaps I should try to learn something from my experience in the south east Charente over the cusp of the year last year in that, whilst the temperature rarely got above -2C during the daytime, the bird life was very noticeably active and the entire area felt somehow healthy, even though the bitter cold seemed to suggest quite the opposite.

Best,

Alistair (useless in winter)

[Bob]

Ditto.

[soliloquy]

october definitely the best month of the year.


Because


A- it smells good

and

B- It has Halloween in it

[ahinton]

october definitely the best month of the year.


Because


A- it smells good

and

B- It has Halloween in it

And it has the added advantage of having my birthday in it.

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

happy birthday, alistair! 

i love fall, too.  i feel similarly to elspeth in that i have more energy when the weather isn't so hot.  also, you don't have to spend much time watering or gardening and can just enjoy taking a walk. 

[maul]

The October is the future of the alpha of the deciduous of the after of the pink of the calibration of the current present tense.

[pianowolfi]

The October is the future of the alpha of the deciduous of the after of the pink of the calibration of the current present tense.

This is sooooo true. You seem to read my mind.

[ahinton]

happy birthday, alistair! 

i love fall, too.  i feel similarly to elspeth in that i have more energy when the weather isn't so hot.  also, you don't have to spend much time watering or gardening and can just enjoy taking a walk. 

Thank you, Susan! It hasn't actually happened quite yet, but it soon will...

Ah, well - log fires, woodsmoke in the air - wonderful, but if only it didn't get so COLD! I'm just no good at cold...

Bst,

Alistair

[ada]

And it has the added advantage of having my birthday in it.

Best,

Alistair

oooh! mine too! today! All the best people have birthdays in october.

Downunder we are moving out of a sharp, cold winter into a prematurely hot spring.
Fire bans are  already in place (in the newsroom we're waiting for the first "state's a tinderbox")  and the blowies have begun to arrive.
Mercifully the mozzies aren't here yet.
A dip in the surf takes your breath away, it's so cold; too cold for sharks thank  god.
You can sleep with the verandah door open and a warm breeze blowing in carrying the smell of jasmine and the threat of a southerly buster.

[pianowolfi]

Happy birthday ada

[ada]

Happy birthday ada

aber danke wolfischen 

[ahinton]

oooh! mine too! today! All the best people have birthdays in october.

Happy birthday, ada! Have a good'un (or at least what's left of it).

Downunder we are moving out of a sharp, cold winter into a prematurely hot spring.
Fire bans are  already in place (in the newsroom we're waiting for the first "state's a tinderbox")  and the blowies have begun to arrive.
Mercifully the mozzies aren't here yet.
A dip in the surf takes your breath away, it's so cold; too cold for sharks thank  god.
You can sleep with the verandah door open and a warm breeze blowing in carrying the smell of jasmine and the threat of a southerly buster.

That last bit sounds so good I think I want to go get the next plane to Oz - especially while there's still no Moz. Jasmine? Mmm!

Best,

Alistair

[ada]

Happy birthday, ada! Have a good'un (or at least what's left of it).

Tks Al, and it's only just started. It's just past 9am over here!

I recommend Sydney at this time of year, it's sensational

[ahinton]

Tks Al, and it's only just started. It's just past 9am over here!

I recommend Sydney at this time of year, it's sensational

Oh why isn't it NEARER??!! I have a few friends in Sydney and they all say the same about this time of year there - and if you'd had the misfortune to see what it was like here today, you'd probably want to give the country a permanent wide berth. In fact one of my Sydney-based friends I have known for longer than anyone else alive and she'd not live anywhere else these days (and she's not even Australian but Polish - and her entire family has moved out there).

Anyway, a Scot over here now raises his glass of single malt to celebrate your anniversaire(it does the toasting job better than any Oz wine, if you can forgive me for saying so)...

Best,

Alistair

[ada]

Anyway, a Scot over here now raises his glass of single malt to celebrate your anniversaire(it does the toasting job better than any Oz wine, if you can forgive me for saying so)...

Best,

Alistair

Well I don't know about being better than a nice crisp semillion but a single malt does sound mighty fine.

thanks, you are very sweet 

Now even though it is my birthday I have deadlines to meet, so I am going to quit wasting time here and log off.

cheers big ears

ada

[ahinton]

Well I don't know about being better than a nice crisp semillion but a single malt does sound mighty fine.

It is indeed mighty fine - just not quite so strine...

cheers big ears

Hey - have you ever actually measured them?(!).

Anyway, to return momentarily to the subject of alcoholic beverages, someone once said to me that "Sydneysiders are all very well, but they do make finer ciders in Somerset"...

Best,

Alistair

[berrt]

I used to hate october/november getting horrible winter depressions when i was young - they have vanished completely.

 Some things actually get better with aging!

B.

[annoying_airhead]

September, October & November all scream 'HAY FEVER!!!' & 'END-OF-YEAR-EXAMS!!!'. Eurgh. I think I'm doomed for the the latter - so I can't say I 'love' it now. =. But the flowers are pretty. =)  =)  =)
(piano exam on Tues... yippee(!))

I quite like autumn though. =) Something to do with red and gold leaves. Oh! And I love Melbourne winters.

Anything is better than summer.

[dnephi]

FISH

[Bob]

This time of year is pretty nice to.  Spring.