Autumn is here

This summer in Algarve was the worst I've experienced.It was windy and not very pleasant in general.I am back in Cascais(Lisbon)and the bloody wind hasn't stopped!The evenings are cold and we had some rain,Autumn is already here What is it like,in your side of the world?
ps.Americans in the path of Hurricane Ike don't need to respond!

Today was a beautiful day. Sunshine most of the way. Going colder now as darkness has fallen, but the barometer is on the up, and the forecast for the ensuing next few days is pretty good. No hose pipe ban, and the garden is flourishing. Summer is definitely on the wane, soon be Christmas once again!!!:

Yer, definite improvement over the last few days, but there is no escaping the fact that the temperatures are dropping and the evenings are drawing in. Time for me to hide myself away until the spring.

Yup Autumn is here, we had out 2 days of summer.

Now we have months of darkness and freezing cold to look forwards to.

I find it really hard getting up in the morning for work when it is cold and dark.

Ought to swop a few days with you then symonh, as it gets tedious for us laid in bed while others trot off to their place of work. Funny folk us humans, never really satisfied with our lot completely, are we?:

Definitely the worst summer in 13 years.

Rained most of June & July and there's
been a few showers in the last couple
of weeks.


Hot weather is back (30degC during the day)
but clouds and storms are brewing.


Mosquitoes are buzzing again.

Originally Posted by symonh2000

Yup Autumn is here, we had out 2 days of summer.

Now we have months of darkness and freezing cold to look forwards to.

I find it really hard getting up in the morning for work when it is cold and dark.

Sorry to hear about your short summer
I used to visit the UK very often on business back in the '90's,loved the winters(no joke)
Somehow,Summer and the UK don't go together.

Originally Posted by zulu ferret

Today was a beautiful day. Sunshine most of the way. Going colder now as darkness has fallen, but the barometer is on the up, and the forecast for the ensuing next few days is pretty good. No hose pipe ban, and the garden is flourishing. Summer is definitely on the wane, soon be Christmas once again!!!:

Bit of poetry there Zed
You are right though, it was a nice day in this part of England today

Scotland is about to tackle the Mozzie problem, as it puts some tourists off visiting, but I can't remember how they propose to do it? No bagpipe jokes please.:

Originally Posted by Nev

Definitely the worst summer in 13 years.

Rained most of June & July and there's
been a few showers in the last couple
of weeks.


Hot weather is back (30degC during the day)
but clouds and storms are brewing.


Mosquitoes are buzzing again.

Mosquitoes!!!
I grew up in Africa,I thought I was immune against any mosquito....
The Portuguese mosquito bites,only heals 2 weeks later!!I am going crazy over here!

Winter is coming.

We are about to move into our new house and have had a wood burner installed. We fired it up for the first time today - here it is.

Originally Posted by PaulR

Winter is coming.

We are about to move into our new house and have had a wood burner installed. We fired it up for the first time today - here it is.

that looks nice

and if the recession really hits hard you can always rip the floor up and burn that

Originally Posted by Alfa Vincent

and if the recession really hits hard you can always rip the floor up and burn that

I'll burn yours first.

Just back from Como, Italy....they too have had a lousy summer...apart from about 3 weeks of sun the locals are saying it was the worst they could remember... while we were there cloudy / rain and FANTastic thunderstorms for 4days then 3days sun...but a lot warmer than here!

Originally Posted by PaulR

I'll burn yours first.

this summer was atrocious here, honestly the worst i can ever remember (yep, even worse than last year...). but hey ho - it's over now, the sun's shining, the lawn's mowed, the car's washed & polished...

here's to a nice autumn


paul, i like the stove - the in-laws have one and it's superb