No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!

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No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« on: September 12, 2018, 20:41 »
Dark before 8pm tonight, takes a deep breath!
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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2018, 20:46 »
And on a gloomy day, the lights go on much earlier than that  :ohmy: :(
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days all attack me at once...

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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2018, 21:04 »
it was very dark this morning too.
but what a lovely (early) evening!

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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2018, 21:26 »
I'm ready for this after the summer heat. Can't wait to be weeding by torchlight soon :)

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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2018, 05:11 »
I know what you mean, I'm not good with dark days (I wish we could all have a big eating session and then hibernate until March!!). On the bright side I am relishing every cool, fresh day.

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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2018, 08:12 »
Dark before 8pm tonight, takes a deep breath!
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But on the bright side - it's only about twelve weeks until the shortest day, and then it will start to go the other way :)
With apologies to my English teacher, Mrs Smith, for beginning a sentence with a conjunction! :blush:

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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2018, 08:22 »
So that's 12 weeks til mid winter and then another 12 weeks til it's as light as this again - half the year - no matter how you try to spin it  ::) 
That's just made me smile cos the earth's spin is what I'm moaning about  :lol: :lol:

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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2018, 08:33 »
yep its beginning to look like autumn the nights are drawing in lighting up the log burner around tea time having a day cutting up logs for the wood burner


the garden is also looking a bit sleepy to  plants that where looking the best flowering there socks of are now going back to nature those tender plants will soon need to be put back in the greenhouse for winter yep plenty to do before those dull damp winter days are upon us  :dry:



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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2018, 08:54 »
Very autumnal feel, even on sunny mornings now, and the plants are beginning to look like it is the end of the summer growing season too
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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2018, 09:40 »
Lovely n cool tho. We had the girls footy training on the beach last night, lovely dropping sun and another bonus, I can get back to astronomy  :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2018, 12:40 »
Garden-wise, it is looking really good, yesterday we had some rain, the first for a few weeks.

But (another conjunction !)   This morning I had a little bit of condensation on the bedroom and sitting room windows - thats a bad sign  :(  I really loved the hot weather, don't like the cold.   Mrs Bouquet
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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2018, 22:47 »
Yes, it happens every year when we get to September, no more going to the plot after work. Once we get into full autumn weather and all the delicate stuff has been killed off, I can start on the general tidying, manure spreading, ground cover, and rebuilding a compost bin which is now overgrown with massive nettles.

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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2018, 18:50 »
My dad ran the engineering for a huge hop farm, and at this time of year, we never saw him; but we smelt him...

Happy days - hops were all we heard about around now, and we all loved it.

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Re: No, no, no, I'm soo not ready for this!
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2018, 07:47 »
I'll never forget my couple of weeks work on a hop farm in Kent as a student - 8 hours a day stood right next to the very noisy main bine thresher feeding all the stray pieces into a mini-thresher. Hard work, with only short breaks between each tractor load, and of course for lunch. The hops were hosts to huge numbers of hop aphids, so we all had green hair, green clothes, green everything at the end of each day,

I cheered myself up with the thought that my labours would help keep the nation's beer supply flowing until I was told that on this particular farm the hops all went to the dye-making industry.   :wacko:

The farm also had pear and apple orchards, so we spent a week or so before returning to uni making a few bob as pickers, although having established that you got paid nearly as much for 'drops' as 'picks' we decided it was easier to charge at the trees with your ladder and just pick them up from the ground, so needed to be constantly aware of the whereabouts of the foreman who didn't seem to appreciate our enterprising approach!  :lol:
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