Christmas!

[Stravaig]

The post has just arrived, including a missive from Lakeland to tell me that the joy of Christmas is inside. OH is still on 'late summer' and most of us are in autumn. (Hint to OH.) We're in late September.

That's the first Christmas thing I've seen this year but no doubt the stable door has been opened and it will all be galloping towards us. Bah!

[oldherbaceous]

I like to drag every warm day into late Summer….I know dear Monika will be frowning down on me!
I like to think of Autumn when the leaves start falling….and there’s no moving me from that thought, Stravaig….

[Primrose]

And we've just had a message from our online supermarket telling us to book a Christmas delivery spot before they all go!.
I do HATE being knee jerked into the next season's planning like this. As you get older time already moves too quickly without the commercial sector trying to speed things up even more.

Perhaps when the leaves start colouring up OH it will be time to officially declare Autumn. They're still very green around here.

[Geoff]

I digress. Talking of leaves. Lots are coming off still green in this lovely weather and I expect a load more in the next 24 hours (if not complete trees) but do I put them in the bags I use for leafmould or wait for proper Autumn leaves?

[Primrose]

Don't know Geoff. Don't know if they'll start decomposing more quickly exposed to the elements or tucked up in warming up leaf mould bags.
Guess it depends on how many calories you've used up in your daily exercise plan!

[Westi]

Funnily driving around the lanes today we commented on the lack of Autumn colour on the trees yet, but if like my fruit trees they have enjoyed the rain, there was enough of it after all to reach even the deepest roots!

[darui]

The post has just arrived, including a missive from Lakeland to tell me that the joy of Christmas is inside. OH is still on 'late summer' and most of us are in autumn. (Hint to OH.) We're in late September.

That's the first Christmas thing I've seen this year but no doubt the stable door has been opened and it will all be galloping towards us. Bah!
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[Primrose]

The older I get, the more I dread it i,m afraid. It seems to bring news of more of our friends and contacts passing away, and a growth in false commercial congeniality where the general oublic are tempted to spend more money buying things they can,t afford and probably don,t often need anyway.

The skies are grey today and I'm obviously in a post-Christmas "Bah Humbug" mood !

[oldherbaceous]

Had our first Christmas cards of the year, today….some people seem to be sending them out earlier each year….

[Primrose]

Obviously trying to pre-empt another postage stamp increase before next December !

[oldherbaceous]

That’s brilliant, Primrose…..

[Myrkk]

LOL. Happily we’ve moved closer to family but as they age less are hand deliverable and more are being posted to friends “down souff”