To start an "I love autumn" thread and it's still July?

[toomuchtooold]

I don't even care. We're meant to get 35 degrees here this week. One of my kids has forgotten how to sleep in the heat. I want to get the winter duvet out again, wear layers, and be able to drink tea. Lovely colourful leaves on the trees. Mist. Frost. Shivering. Bring it all.

I'm also confused as to why you can't drink tea? I've had two today and a coffee. It's allowed!

I can't wait. My favourite time of the year.
Layering is going to help cover up the lockdown weight gain too

I love Autumn, it's my tome to start planning Christmas shopping. I love the crisp air and the colours of the leaves. I am also going to be at least 2 stone lighter by winter so I can treat myself to some new clothes!

I Iove summer but autumn is lovely and I reused today that I am beginning to look forward to it already! I love seeing the leaves change, the nights start to draw in, pumpkin spice lattes and getting cosy. My daughter loves Halloween.

I think we've had an OK summer on and off. Some dry weather would be nice.
I love winter too up until Christmas. I have to leave the house early for work and I love the quietness in winter and the frost sparkling in the morning.

@toomuchtooold I've made the Delia Smith Christmas cake a few times! Now I've dropped the C bomb I'm feeling excited about that.

I love Autumn & the winter months.Looking forward to routine & the kids returning to school.
Always feel more comfortable in winter clothes.Maybe if I were slim I'd enjoy Summer a bit more...

I’ve just moved from London to Dublin. Autumn has arrived here already!

I do love autumn but I need a few more days of sun.

I love the thought of Autumn, big snuggly jumpers, warm coats, hot chocolate, candles, colourful leaves, blue skies and cold crisp mornings, woodland walks... what actually happens is, it’s too wet for just a nice woolly coat and what happens is you just spend your time either trying to keep a hood up in an ugly waterproof coat trying not to get twatted in the head by a passing umbrella.

@linerforlife

Yesss I'm in! I have a newborn and took to my bed today to snuggle them and listen to the rain and pretend it was autumn! Watched a bit of downtown abbey and looked at winter outfits on Pinterest!! Can't wait for autumn this year.

Oh my God this sounds blissful. 😍

Autumn is my favourite, but I'm worried we won't be able to get to do all the things that make it my favourite.

YABU I'm still waiting for summer

Come to Cumbria. Autumn has been here a while now. I've had the heating on today.

I have a newborn and took to my bed today to snuggle them and listen to the rain and pretend it was autumn!

❤️ I sometimes play rain in my sleep app, lie on the bed close my eyes and pretend it’s rain hammering in the windows

Also in. I love Autumn. It has slowly become my favourite season overtaking summer! I just dont like the heat in this country, we arent set up for it. I hate not being able to sleep.

I prefer the clothing in autumn, love a chelsea boot, jeans and a coat with a big scarf! The nights getting darker, reminding you Christmas is on the way

I love an autumn wardrobe and I love dark nights. I used to love going back to school in September and wearing my new shoes, coats and bags, so I think it's a throwback to then.

@toomuchtooold last year I made one from BBC Good Food it was a saffron infused fruit cake, turned out really nicely, think I'll do the same again.

Ooh that sounds nice, saffron infused. I have trouble getting exactly the right spices here (Germany) but saffron I can definitely get.

OMG they've revised the weather forecast and here Saturday's supposed to be 37. Friday 36 and I'm supposed to be meeting a friend with my kids and her kids, in town. Aaargh. I wish I was in Scotland (I'm from Glasgow @ladylunchalot, I don't really do temperatures above 21 degrees) or I'd take rainy but beautiful Cumbria too! It's always what you don't have, isn't it.

Ugh, autumn isn’t “cosy” it’s driving rain, wind and being miserable. YABU.

My favourite season too! Love it.

And one of my favourite poems here OP, just for you!

To Autumn
BY JOHN KEATS
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

I normally love autumn but I bet this one won't be quite the same. For a start, I'm walking to work instead of taking the bus at the moment and it's about 50 minutes each way. If taking a bus is still not advisable in the autumn (which seems very likely at the moment) then at some point it's going to be dark when I walk home. That doesn't frighten me at all but the walk will be no fun aesthetically, it will be more of a chore than a pleasure. And I won't be able to layer so many lovely autumn clothes, wear scarves etc as I'll get hotter on the long walk.

I love Autumn. Autumn and Spring are my favourite seasons. I love Easter and looking forward to a long bank holiday weekend, Easter eggs, seeing lots of lambs in the fields, daffodils starting to come up and the promise of summer, summer holidays etc.

I do enjoy Summer MOST of the time, so long was it’s warm and not raining. I love a Saturday daytime drinking sesh in a pub beer garden! By the end of the summer though, especially if it’s wet and miserable, I’m longing for Autumn.

I LOVE Chelsea boots, cosy jumpers/ scarves/ long, warm coats, hot chocolates etc. And I’m even MORE excited about autumn/ winter this year as we moved house in the Spring and this will be our first winter in a house with 2 lovely, big log burners. I’ve been dying to light them but haven’t so I swear as soon as 1st Oct hits, no matter what the weather, I’m lighting them I love Halloween and bonfire night, and I do like the build up to Christmas.

Once Christmas has gone though, honestly I’m just longing for Spring. January/ February are such shit months. Wet and miserable, I’m always broke from Christmas and fed up and long for the Spring/ Summer and warmer weather.

So, to summarise from that essay I guess I like all seasons, they each have their merits, but Autumn, is my fave, with Spring a close second!

If it hadn’t been horribly bloody autumnal for most of the summer I would have some sympathy for you. But given the wet cold June and July we’ve had you can hold off until October thanks!

@JassyRadlett

If it hadn’t been horribly bloody autumnal for most of the summer I would have some sympathy for you. But given the wet cold June and July we’ve had you can hold off until October thanks!

Totally agree locked down all spring Summer not that exciting with cancelled holidays etc Can’t see anything exciting about autumn cold damp and dark Roll on next spring let’s hope next years better