Falling for Autumn

efb

Isn't it glorious? Dry and crisp with a real refreshing bite and it's been sunny during the day this week

I love Autumn

KERSPLAT!

Walked out of the office today to a little chill in the air but a gorgeous sunny evening. Big fan of Autumn myself, the cold mornings not so much

boobar

Woolly jumpers, out for walks in the cold air. Nice to come into a warm house with a nice fire on.....

Arah, sure go on, I'll have a hot whiskey to warm me up.

Son Of A Vidic

I love this time of year, especially when we get those real autumnal dry crisp evenings. No better time of the year for getting the oul telescope out for a bit of star gazing. Then when it gets a bit nippy, you can retreat inside to a roaster of a fire.

fedor.2.

boobar wrote: »

Woolly jumpers, out for walks in the cold air. Nice to come into a warm house with a nice fire on.....

Arah, sure go on, I'll have a hot whiskey to warm me up.

How long have you been living in Glenroe?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Nice and mild here, no cold thank god.

Earthhorse

Love this time of year. The air is crisp and the paths carpeted in leaves.

Seem to be coming down with my second cold though.

mad muffin

Still haven't put the heating on, and still cutting the grass…

katydid

efb wrote: »

Isn't it glorious? Dry and crisp with a real refreshing bite and it's been sunny during the day this week

I love Autumn

I love the excuse to get back into big jumpers and boots. I was out for a walk today and it was lovely walking through big piles of leaves.

Notavirus.exe

The smell of fallen leaves is quite pleasing.

The Sidewards Man

Plenty hard nipples these mornings, lovely.

Agricola

Theres a lot to be said for the summer (an actual real one) but cool, crisp autumnal days where you get to don your good coat and a solid pair of shoes or boots are just more fitting I find. Leave the bermuda shorts and flipflops to the foreigners. Give me this week and these temps all the time I say.

somesoldiers

There was a blank of fog on the m3 at 7am, not good, or safe particularly when some fools have no lights on

Bio Mech

I prefer spring. So full of promise. Daffodils poking through the soil. Trees all a bud. Migrating birds back in the skies. Cherry blossom.

Autumn is like natures recession. Full of fallen leaves, traffic jams, drunken wasps and house hunting spiders. Bah.

DEFTLEFTHAND

mad muffin wrote: »

Still haven't put the heating on, and still cutting the grass…

I usually have to cut my grass up until about the first week of November.

Streetwalker

Has Summer started yet?

efb

Streetwalker wrote: »

Has Summer started yet?

Add your reply here.

Nah! Autumn ftw. Another great week.

jimgoose

The weather has been outstanding the last week or so. I cut grass there only a day or two back, but it'll be leaf-raking time - round one - shortly, and that's a pain in the hole. I love this time of year. It makes me a tad nostalgic for back around 1990, and warming my little two-stroke Suzuki before heading in to college, my feet already showing signs of frostbite in anticipation. :pac:

my theory on why for a lot of us Autumn is our favourite time of year.

Autumn colours and woolly coats and jumpers suit Irish people we are not really a shorts and flip-flops type nation we haven't got the right skin tone.

Menas

Driving down in to the city from the Dublin mountains yesterday morning at dawn was an absolute pleasure. The city was basked in this faint orange glow as the sun peaked over the horizon. Yeah- Autumn is great.

Medusa22

I love Autumn too, it is so nice to be able to wrap up and wear a coat and a scarf and boots again. I also like it is getting dark earlier as well, I went for a meal last night and it was lovely to walk around town in the dark, I'm really not a summer person or a daylight person :P

Badly Drunk Boy

Streetwalker wrote: »

Has Summer started yet?

This Summer was grand, but people still have to moan. (You notice dodgy weather more when you're on a bike, and I don't think it was that bad.)

Autumn is fine so long as it's not wet and windy (although same could be said for any of our seasons). Walking through crisp, newly-fallen leaves is lovely but feeling yer back wheel wobble on damp, wet leaves isn't quite so nice.

It was fairly foggy around here this morning, which I like, even if it's a bit dangerous.

Lo_La

Love it!! Don't mind the cold mornings at all when we have this lovely sunshine during the day. Much easier to dress for autumn & winter anyway :-P

Duff

It's called 'fall' 'cus leaf fall down.

wp_rathead

Wearing coats and scarves are the sh!t
Hon Autumn ya beautiful fncker ya!

valoren

Found my first chestnut on the ground yesterday.
It's sitting on my desk proudly now.

That's my own Autumn is here sign.

ToddyDoody

Autumn suits my personality more than summer. I kind of have that cold "bad news" air about me

fuzzypickle

This time of year I love being up stupidly early in the morning when it's just starting to get bright, sitting under a blanket at my pc with a gigantic cup of tea.

Ahh bliss.

Candyshell

Today feels like a nice Autumn day, enjoying that chill in the air.

Star Bingo

It’s fresh

It’s so exciting. It’s so exciting to me

Sardine

Irish people are weirdos. We get like 10 or 11 months of autumn or worse (winter) and they're happy when it's f*cking Baltic in August. Hands were numb cycling to work this morning. In AUGUST.

Candyshell

August isn't a Summer month in Ireland, the Summer months are May, June and July.

super_furry

Give me another two week blast of the summer weather when the schools go back and I'll be good to settle into the Autumn then.

Star Bingo

Candyshell wrote: »

August isn't a Summer month in Ireland, the Summer months are May, June and July.

Anything that’s upwards of 20c and beyond is summer to me, it can fùck right off

Yer Da sells Avon

I love autumn. The main benefit of a 'good' summer, as far as I'm concerned, is that it usually results in a very colourful autumn.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Candyshell wrote: »

August isn't a Summer month in Ireland, the Summer months are May, June and July.

That stems from the old celtic calendar.

Meteorologically speaking summer in the northern hemisphere runs from June 21st to September 21st.

Candyshell

I for one would like to hear Aongus' thoughts on IT staff.

CeilingFly

Candyshell wrote: »

August isn't a Summer month in Ireland, the Summer months are May, June and July.

Calendar summer - may, June, July

Metrological summer - June July and August

Astronomical summer - 2018 = 21st Jun to 23rd September

Sabre0001

I enjoy autumn sunshine, it being a bit fresher, and the crunch of leaves. Could do without the hail stones and chilling rain that's been popping up over the last couple of days though.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

I love autumn. The main benefit of a 'good' summer, as far as I'm concerned, is that it usually results in a very colourful autumn.

Only if it was a wet spring to encourage sugar production that then converts to glucose in the sunny weather. We also need frosts to hold off if the autumn colour is to last any length of time.

mad muffin

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I usually have to cut my grass up until about the first week of November.

True.

Postgrad10

Today was fabulous. I opened all the windows in the house and let the fresh air blow through it. It rained and now we've a beautiful clear blue sky.

Agricola

Love the coolness in the air today. Got up this morning and after weeks and weeks of donning shorts and a t-shirt whenever I'd be planning to stay inside for a few hours, today I felt a fleece tracksuit bottoms and a warm hoody was in order.

We're back!

valoren

Autumn is like the beginning of the end.

The school, university terms begin anew with no pressure of exams etc yet the good weather is coming to an end and the dark nights are closing in.

Spring is the opposite, the end of the beginning.
School stress and Uni exams but the crap weather of the winter is ending, the days are longer.

farmerwifelet

Fecking mice in the attic again setting up home for the cold weather!!! Early this year.

Try_harder

Autumn definitely setting in! Glorious

Wibbs

I fcuking hate autumn TBH. More than any other time of the year. It was ah crap, back to school in my youth, the transition of the nights heading towards afternoon, the oncoming cold and the damp and the bloody rain, heating bills, cold hands and all that shite. The promise of dank, dark and damp. Yeah, that's great like. It;s so bloody grey. Give me spring and summer every time. Even that point in winter when the days start to get that little bit longer. If I had the choice I'd winter in the warm south. I envy the birds that do.

Graces7

My first year in Ireland after a decade on a windswept North Sea island where ponies had short legs with good reason and there were no trees.. I revelled in the autumn forests.... used to drive through them with joy...the sheer exuberant colour...

Love autumn altogether.. fruit, jamming, laying in winter supplies, just love it all... Happy days..

Malayalam

Wibbs wrote: »

I fcuking hate autumn TBH. More than any other time of the year. It was ah crap, back to school in my youth, the transition of the nights heading towards afternoon, the oncoming cold and the damp and the bloody rain, heating bills, cold hands and all that shite. The promise of dank, dark and damp. Yeah, that's great like. It;s so bloody grey. Give me spring and summer every time. Even that point in winter when the days start to get that little bit longer. If I had the choice I'd winter in the warm south. I envy the birds that do.

Oh God, yes, I've been saying it for years. I wish I had the money to go to warm places in the winter. I love sun. Light, brightness, warmth, body unfurled. Autumn looks so beautiful in many ways, but ....oh no, drip alert! ...I sometimes cry when the leaves are falling. Autumn is somehow melancholy. In winter I grit my teeth and endure. In Spring I hover over the places I know I have planted bulbs and wait with bated breath. In Summer I unwind.

Graces7

Wibbs wrote: »

I fcuking hate autumn TBH. More than any other time of the year. It was ah crap, back to school in my youth, the transition of the nights heading towards afternoon, the oncoming cold and the damp and the bloody rain, heating bills, cold hands and all that shite. The promise of dank, dark and damp. Yeah, that's great like. It;s so bloody grey. Give me spring and summer every time. Even that point in winter when the days start to get that little bit longer. If I had the choice I'd winter in the warm south. I envy the birds that do.

((((HUGS))))

Billy86

Sardine wrote: »

Irish people are weirdos. We get like 10 or 11 months of autumn or worse (winter) and they're happy when it's f*cking Baltic in August. Hands were numb cycling to work this morning. In AUGUST.

Irish people just love to complain about weather, full stop. I've had multiple people in my office complain it's too cold when the weather had been in the high/mid teens only to then complain it's too cold when it's in the 10-12 range.

Also, probably because we typically have very little variance, but many of us don't seem to even have a concept of 'dressing for the weather' at all.