Getting back on-topic, I like autumn and don't find it melancholy at all. I enjoy the weather getting cooler and being able to shake off the lethargy that comes with warm/hot weather.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Today was foggy and damp, I sat in the summerhouse for a few hours, just watching leaves falling. It was melancholic, I was not miserable, not depressed.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
A friend of mine has a theory that the reason 'lunch' has become more commonly used is it has 5 letters so it fits nicely on a working week timetable (school, etc) or calendar whereas 'dinner' doesn't. 'fish supper' is a northern expression, isn't it? Down here it's just 'fish and chips'
I've never eaten supper. Lunch/dinner and dinner/tea have always been pretty much interchangeable and not something to get hung up on. People here do 'keep country hours' - i.e. most of our neighbours eat their main meal at midday and their evening meal early - 5 or 6pm. Eating at 7.30 or later is strictly for special social occasions and not normal routine
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
B3, when my older kids were born, they were called napkins, nappies had the word "disposable" in front of them I will settle for a piece of kitchen paper,with you. Actually, I don't make a mess while eating. No,we didn't have fish suppers either. B3, I told you that the dictionary was always to hand!
I want to thank all of you for your thoughts and comments. I think we all have taken from this discussion that we can see this time of the year on different levels. Reading these different aspects was a great pleasure that I have taken from this discussion.
I had a look in my collection of images that I have taken over the years and found that my favourite images have always been the ones that give a slightly melancholic impression, because those images give a range interpretations, and I can put my own story into it.
The image below, taken at Newark, expresses better than others the mood that a November can give us, even it was taken during the rainy weeks in May this year.
A few years ago We went to a festival and heard a group over from Germany, singing and playing the most delightful Bluegrass music one could ever hear. You may never have heard of it!
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When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
'fish supper' is a northern expression, isn't it? Down here it's just 'fish and chips'
I've never eaten supper. Lunch/dinner and dinner/tea have always been pretty much interchangeable and not something to get hung up on. People here do 'keep country hours' - i.e. most of our neighbours eat their main meal at midday and their evening meal early - 5 or 6pm. Eating at 7.30 or later is strictly for special social occasions and not normal routine
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
On a school trip to London we 10 year-olds had the people serving on the chip van baffled!
To get the thread back on topic, I can add that the experience did evoke a wistful yearning for home......
I think we all have taken from this discussion that we can see this time of the year on different levels. Reading these different aspects was a great pleasure that I have taken from this discussion.
I had a look in my collection of images that I have taken over the years and found that my favourite images have always been the ones that give a slightly melancholic impression, because those images give a range interpretations, and I can put my own story into it.
The image below, taken at Newark, expresses better than others the mood that a November can give us, even it was taken during the rainy weeks in May this year.
Thanks!
I ♥ my garden.