AUTUMN- blackberries, apples, multi-coloured leaves, pickling the last of the beetroot and making chutney out of hundreds of green tomatoes that never went red, the smell of bonfires, foggy mornings, wet muddy dogs, sleepy bad tempered wasps, heating bills, Downton Abbey (a.k.a posh Emmerdale), phone calls from parents asking what we're doing for Christmas ..........................................
NO MORE sitting in long grass with a beer, the dogs and the sheep,
NO MORE wandering around the garden in my bare feet,
NO MORE barbecues,
NO MORE leaving all the doors and windows wide open,
NO MORE picking a courgette from the garden bringing it in and gently frying it in butter. yummmmmm !
NO MORE spending hours just pottering after work
roll on next summer