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September 28, 2005
Signs of autumn
If I was feeling poetic I would rejoice in the changing of the seasons and celebrate the brisk wind and the turning of the leaves. But I’m not so I bring you the domesticated, feet firmly on the ground version of;
You know Autumn is coming when;
1) There are more conkers in your pockets than sweet wrappers.
2) You go upstairs mid-afternoon and discover you have forgotten to draw the curtains in one of the bedrooms. You ponder whether it is worth opening them for surely it will be dark again soon.
3) You start craving veggie stew, soup and pie, plenty of pie. Salad sits in the fridge all week and starts going off, round about the end of October you cotton on and stop buying it.
4) You discover that last year’s winter coat doesn’t fit your daughter any more, even though you had got one at least two sizes too big in the hope that it would last more than one year.
5) Kid’s can’t use the ‘ but it’s not dark yet’ excuse for not going to bed.
6) You have to turn the light on first thing in the morning.
7) Your sleeves roll down and get wet when you are doing the washing up. You start reminiscing over those summer days when you could wear short sleeves.
8) They do the same when you lift your daughter out the bath..
Come on I’m getting desperate now. Can anyone think of some more?
Posted by purple elephant at September 28, 2005 03:03 PM