Martin B Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 £34 MILLION can buy a lot of happiness! Yes it can but spending it on footballers would not be one of my first purchases! Freddie is worth £15million, might be top of a few of your lists! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Not mine Martin go and start (another) football topic........... - leave this one to the crisp, cold weather fanatics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bracken Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 I find the first night going out in winter when all the pavements are twinkling with frost very exhilarating too. HALLOWEEN.......i love it more than (xmas) Yule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellcat Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 ...and walks in the park on cold crisp blustery days, what better excuse for ploughing through fallen leaves than 'I was just playing with the children...'? ...and the smell of pine in the air when the Christmas tree comes in... ... and lighting the fire for the first time after summer and forgetting that we should have got the sweep in first... (maybe not that one) ..and not having to mow the lawn again for AGES... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bracken Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Lying in bed on a freezing cold morning when the rain is lashing at the windows......very toasty and cosy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken on a mission Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Lying in bed on a freezing cold morning when the rain is lashing at the windows......very toasty and cosy! Oooooo yes. Sunday morning with Me, James and Esme in bed with 3 cats dribbling on us until I finally decide to heave myself out of bed and make a brunch including...freshly laid eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bracken Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Even better if the OH does it for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 We live in hope, don't we.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Not so lovely today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Aaaaaaaah, winter - when the chooks lie in till nearly 8am! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Brilliant!! Walking the dogs at dawn and really smelling autumn - bonfires / woodburners Taking twice as long to walk the dogs because one of them (mentioning no names Charlie ) insists on browsing on the blackberries - and eating some yourself (only above doggy height to avoid the pee!) Not worrying aobut the housework - hey its dark in the evenings all you hav to do is draw the curtains, put on a few side lamps and candles and no one will notice the dust Huge baggy jumpers that hide the eglu bum and tum Bad things Its dark when I leave for and get home from work - so dont see the girls. the football season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Mel - don't mention the 'F' word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Football! I'm so glad the football season is here, it means I have something decent to do on a Saturday and Sunday afternoon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I love Hallowe'en and am trying to grow a pumpkin or 2. It will probably be a very small lantern this year! I love the crisp leaves and the smell of the ground in autumn, conkers too! BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I love having a new class of children.... honest, I really do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 I love Hallowe'en and am trying to grow a pumpkin or 2. It will probably be a very small lantern this year! I love the crisp leaves and the smell of the ground in autumn, conkers too! BBx our pumpkins are huge (cinderella's carriage proportions) cant wait to carve them and decorate the house - we put up all cobwebby stuff and spiders all over the porch last year so the kids had to get through the web to collect their sweets which I put in a big couldron! hubby did an amazing job on the pumpkin carving - someone decided to pinch them off our driveway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Dark nights, hardly ever seeing the chickens as they roost so early, needing several layers of clothes before you go out anywhere, grey skies, rain, rain, more rain, frost and ice . S"Ooops, word censored!"ing the car before you can go to work, children risking their lives walking home from school on the dark evenings on not very well lit roads which are overpopulated by careless drivers Shops playing tinny Christmas tunes from October whilst trying to force us to part company with our hard-earned cash on a lot of must have tat. Sorry, I'm obviously one on my own here, but I can tolerate Autumn..... just, would hibernate throughout the winter months if I possibly could, start to come alive and be happy again in the Spring....... and I love Summer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I love Hallowe'en and am trying to grow a pumpkin or 2. It will probably be a very small lantern this year! I love the crisp leaves and the smell of the ground in autumn, conkers too! BBx I like your avatar on the US forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I love the run up to Christmas, having usually bought everything I need by December 1st anyway! I love all the cheap tat decorations in the shops and feast my eyes as I know I won't be buying any of it, but it's free to look . I have a VERY strict budget and only allow myself one extra decoration per year, and it has to be a pound or less If anyone has any decorations they no longer use maybe you could find out if your local school would like them? This is what I do with my unwanted bits and pieces. The more sparkle they can get on their trees the better, and they usually have HUGE trees to decorate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 I like nothing better than putting on my xmas song cd and putting the decs on my tree...all frosty outside...all toasty and warm inside... my favourite song is the "chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jack frost nipping on your nose"...."merry christmas to you!".... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Noooo, I'm not ready for this sort of talk!!! It's still August, well only just! I'd like to have some summer before we speed on to December! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I love Hallowe'en and am trying to grow a pumpkin or 2. It will probably be a very small lantern this year! I love the crisp leaves and the smell of the ground in autumn, conkers too! BBx I like your avatar on the US forum! Thanks Martin, quite a different image eh! BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I like nothing better than putting on my xmas song cd and putting the decs on my tree...all frosty outside...all toasty and warm inside... my favourite song is the "chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jack frost nipping on your nose"...."merry christmas to you!".... We do all the house up with cobwebs and I get my broomstick out of the loft We have no children though We also do the tree to nat king cole or something similar with wine and nibbles BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I love having a new class of children.... honest, I really do! How do you 'have' them Annie, scrambled I bet you are great. It must be nice having a fresh start and new personalities BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Raw usually Buff! Much more healthy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
