I think she makes a good point - September is the start of term, for many it is the beginning of a new year, or even new life as they move on in their studies.Full of hope and expectation.
November combines the solemnity of remembrance, with the preparations for the festive season. The leaves have all fallen, and winter is well on its way.
October bridges the two - the harvests have been gathered, it is the middle of the autumn. Earth's bounty can be enjoyed.
But most of the ideas on here I can go along with wholeheartedly.
Let us keep warm and keep well as winter approaches.
October is lovely, as long as I keep out of the stores, where Hallowe'en decorations compete with early Christmas displays! Outdoors the colour combinations are subtle and a delight to see. How is it, that in nature the right colours always seem to be put together? Our Creator God is a wonderful artist!
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DeleteI'm beginning to think I might be wanting to hibernate; these past few days it has taken all my willpower not to eat crisps and biscuits and toast all day.
ReplyDeleteOctober is toast time - buttered toast, toasty toes in woolly socks, and raise a toast to warm friendship...
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DeleteAutumn makes me sad as I grieve the end of Summer. The colours and the fruits are pretty though. A fellow loather of Halloween here!x
ReplyDeleteDo you know the poem "Goldengrove Unleaving" by GM Hopkins? All about a girl grieving the end of summer.
DeleteI’ve restarted Vitamin D3 and B12 tablets after a break since April. Definitely feeling more like staying in so making myself go out to walk or for an errand each day. Heating is now on in the evening around 8pm just for an hour or so and the hoodies are out for daytime. Catriona
ReplyDeleteMy GP put me on Vit D a while back. It has certainly helped me. And the winter woollies and thermal underlayers are out!
DeleteI like the L M Montgomery quote so much that I've used it twice - including this year!!
ReplyDeleteAn ad for Hobbycraft keeps popping up (don't know why as I've only been once as its the other side of Ipswich) They have every size/ colour of fabric pumpkin that's possible available - who will buy them all and what happens to the ones they don't sell?
I suspect they will ALL go to landfill in the end, sadly. In Dorset we were a 10 minute cycle ride from Hobbycraft's HQ, so I visited often and picked up a few bargains. Now our nearest is the other side of Norwich. My last visit was rather disappointing.
ReplyDeleteI love the October quote and it is a colourful month, only spoilt by Halloween. The shops are full of horrible, garish costumes, all nasty fibres.
ReplyDeleteI liked the self care ideas but definitely not yolky drinks. Yuck.
Yolky = yucky, you're right!
DeleteWhat would a "yolky" drink be? Eggnog?
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October is still fairly warm over here, with daytime highs around 31C. I'm not complaining! :)
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DeleteI love autumn but not Halloween and all its plastic awfulness. We enjoyed a wonderful woodland walk yesterday and all of a sudden here leaves are turning colour beautifully. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteThe leaves are glorious
DeleteSchool term started in August in Scotland. We're on mid term hols next week!
ReplyDeleteDoes that mean your autumn term is longer than the other two?
DeleteYes, they won't get another break until Xmas now.
Deletethat's a long stretch in the cold winter months!
DeleteSome great comments already on your interesting post. Autumn feels like it's definitely a time for counting blessings. Apologies if that makes me sound superior, it's not meant to.
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DeleteSainsburys is heaving with 'Halloween' masks, plastic pumpkins etc etc. Not nice. But October always makes me think of walking in the heaps of fallen leaves, coming home to a log fire and a hot drink.
ReplyDeleteLog fires are wonderful to watch - and great for toasting crumpets!
DeleteWhen I lived in the UK way back in the 1980s, no one celebrated Halloween there. It was bonfires instead. I'm so sorry we (US) exported Halloween to you and so many other places. I hate all the cheap decor, so wasteful.
ReplyDeleteYes. It has taken over from our 5th November Guy Fawkes celebrations.
DeleteYes! I remember people always having bonfire parties! No plastic tat there but a good old-fashioned burning! I just hate how EVERY shop is determined to get in on the Halloween pound! That said, I want a small knitted pumpkin as there's a game I want to play that requires a small pumpkin. I HAD one that I bought from a craft fair but can't find it! I suspect it's in the Christmas decorations! Kx
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DeleteI enjoy seeing pumpkins along with other Autumn decorations from nature. I don't take part in Halloween both for the commercial aspect or what it stands for.
ReplyDeleteA yolky drink - no thank you. A hot chocolate - now that would be just perfect.
I love hot chocolate on cold nights
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