Gem_Seb Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Its nearly dark and I havent even left work yet!! The first night of driving home from work in the dark has arrived! I hate it! and i wont even get to see my chickens when i get home as they will be thinking about going to bed now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I actually quite like it - it means I can officially get my dressing gown on earlier I like the cosiness of the house on a dark night - I light all my little fairy lights in the house & love seeing the solar ones in the trees in the garden as I am cooking supper That said,I shall be heartily sick of it come Spring,& will welcome the longer days again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&T Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I love the wrapping myself up with a nice hearty winter meal - stew and dumplings come to mind! Why is it some food can only be eaten in the winter?? Or is that just me.. But will miss the chooks... And I know everynight I will have to turf Fred off the eggs - she will think her luck is in having the chance to sit on them every night to go to sleep! Roosts on the bars quite happily if the eggs have already been removed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I like this time of year, but I hate the dark evenings - it means I can't see the garden (or the chickens) when I get home, and by mid-December it will be dark before I leave for work as well. I wouldn't mind it so much if I were at home during the daytime at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BeckyBoo Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Agree with all of the above, but do like being able to get the children to bed a little easier (none of this, "why can't I play outside, I can't go to bed it's still daylight") And small boy is already asking if it's CHRISTMAS yet BeckyBoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 This is my favourite time of year, I just wish it wasn't so mild! (come on frosty mornings!! ) I came home from an early shift today and put my pyjamas on at 3pm , shut the chooks in, put on some soup and lit my candles.......love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I love the changes and I'm not sure I have a favourite. I love frosty mornings but then again mist and drippy trees have their magic. This is the only time of the year that I see skeins of geese dribbling across the sky on their way to the coast; a truly awesome sight and sound that epitomises autumn. When I was a child Bonfire Night was special. There were no big displays and all the back gardens came alive and alight with bangs and flashes but the best ever part for me was getting up very early the next day, the air silent,still and smokey with that whiff of cordite hanging. It's a feeling I can conjure even now, fifty years on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I misread this as 'Dark Knights' and went off into a Christopher Baele reverie.... I really must start taking the tablets agin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gem_Seb Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 Im good at the double meaning thing! i posted a thread about my marine tank the other day and someone though i meant marines as in the men and got all excited!! It was not nice coming home in the dark last night but i do like it onthe weekends when i can snuggle up in the warm and its cold during the mornings! i just hate driving home in the rush hr traffic and being dark and rainey makes it even more of a depressing task! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 It means that the chickens are now sorted before I start dinner rather than them wanting tea while I am trying to do too many things at once. Usually the chickens are sorted first while the rest of the household whinges. But it's not long - just 2 months (under now) before the solstice and it will be get lighter again - well that's what I look forward to at this time of year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 It means that the chickens are now sorted before I start dinner rather than them wanting tea while I am trying to do too many things at once. Usually the chickens are sorted first while the rest of the household whinges. But it's not long - just 2 months (under now) before the solstice and it will be get lighter again - well that's what I look forward to at this time of year. Now that is what I call positive thinking!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 You should see me at the summer solstice - grumpy because winter's coming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
