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After yesterdays very wet ride the temperature dropped enough for the heating to come on this morning.
This along with all the trees/heather beginning to change colour and undergrowth dying back has resigned me to the fact autumn is here.
So today to celebrate and embrace that fact we went for a short ride, then shower, quick bite to eat and headed to the local brewery for a few beers.
Swift walk home in the drizzle then a takeaway curry.
How are you embracing the change?
I wore a long-sleeved jersey for my bike ride today.
Chasing the sun 🤔
I'm struggling to embrace it at the moment. Autumn's arguably my favourite time of year. I love bright crisp Autumn days, wonderful colours & that Autumn smell but in recent years Autumn just seems to have been a washout.
After this year's rather excellent Summer I'm still holding out hope for a proper Autumn.
I wore a long-sleeved jersey for my bike ride today.
Are you an Ebiker?
Some dick on hear said he noticed they always wear warm clothing. 😉
Making apple pie - we have an abundance of apples currently.
Just left Ainsa and it was hot. The riding and the views were amazing. Thinking of going back in 2027 and spending longer in the surrounding area. 🤔
Need to do some research
Hope you both have as much fun as we did 🥳
Put the CH on. In my defence I have just returned from a fortnight in Andalucia.
I’ve found a blackthorn where I wasn’t expecting one and now have enough sloes for a litre of hedge-brew, and will be checking whether the apples are ripe enough to pick tomorrow.
Put the CH on. In my defence I have just returned from a fortnight in Andalucia.
I've done the same. In my defence I was cold.
After sleeping for the last few months only under the duvet cover, I have put the duvet back inside. The thinnest least-tog one of course.
Picked a kilo of rosehips to make syrup, I'll bottle it up for the winter ahead. Delicious vitamin c boost and perfect on pancakes or as a hot drink or in gin
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I wore arm sleeves on my ride and I can sleep again at night. No heating on yet. And prepped the Zwift set up.
I've had a good sulk and felt really tired, possibly SAD systems starting, maybe just suffering from too many big effort days on the bikes.
With sunset now being barely after 1920, it's getting increasingly difficult to do a decent ride outdoors after dinner before it goes pitch black and it will be nigh on impossible in a couple of weeks.
Gutted there is no sign of an Indian summer this September.
after this afternoons bike ride...
rewaterproofing my jacket!
has anyone tried this stuff ? https://muc-off.com/products/rain-shield-re-proofer-250ml
New Winter socks arrived.
Put proper mudguards back on Gravel bike.
Building up a list of Tat quality cycling bits and bobs to sell over the dark months.
All lights charged up.
Will dig out the 'change of seasons' box from the attic soon, and put away most of my summer gear.
My first autumn in Scotland for decades.
It gets dark quickly here. It's colder than the south. I have a lot of apples and blackberries. I'm going to start having porridge for breakfast (with apples and blackberries).
Thanking god my late summer cold/COVID seems to be buggering of!
Put a new front tyre on the hard tail for the next 6 months.
Cleaned a bike for the first time since March or something
New outdoor furniture arrives Wednesday 😎
New outdoor furniture arrives Wednesday
I console myself with the fact you'll be saying it's too hot to ride soon. 😆
Massive mudguard and light went back on the MTB on Wednesdays night ride.
Sweeping leaves every day from now to winter.
Generally love autumn but struggling so far this. The early nights can sod off frankly. Been struggling a bit with depression most of this year anyway so I'm a bit more wary of SAD symptoms than usual as I don't need that thrown in the mix as well.
I've put my slippers and a sweater on this morning.
Still wearing shorts though.
I've had a good sulk and felt really tired, possibly SAD systems starting, maybe just suffering from too many big effort days on the bikes.
With sunset now being barely after 1920, it's getting increasingly difficult to do a decent ride outdoors after dinner before it goes pitch black and it will be nigh on impossible in a couple of weeks.
Gutted there is no sign of an Indian summer this September.
Get a light? Night riding is fun.
Heating kicked in this morning. No chill in the bathroom, towels felt warm and not damp. Made a Monday morning almost bearable
Wife has started lighting scented candles 🙄 whoever invented them , why !!!!!
Wife has started lighting scented candles 🙄 whoever invented them , why !!!!!
To counteract the smell of autumnal wet socks on the radiator?
Strained last year's sloe gin which is nicely matured now.
Picked 1.5kg of sloes for a bumper batch this year.
The first toad in the hole is surely just around the corner.
I think tonight's ride will be a Zwift session in the garage. First one since late March. Always feel better after a spin on the bike, be it regular mountain bike, e- mountain bike, road bike or Zwift, but actually finding the motivation to swing my leg over a bike is always the biggest challenge and darker wetter evenings aren't helping.
At the moment though, I'm all fired up for a ride tonight. Let's see how the day, and 2hr public transport commute home, leaves me feeling this evening. Wish me luck!
Arm warmers came out for the first time in 6 months.
And I’m now sleeping under a duvet rather than just the cover.
I think I’ll also have to accept that it’s now just too cold for flip-flops on the morning dog walk.
Still wearing shorts though, obviously.
Well, so much for wishing myself luck!
Still relatively fired up for a bit of a workout last night, I left the lab and headed homeward. My bus was cancelled, and the next one on the hourly service got into Buchanan bus station 30 minutes late, giving me a delightful 210 min commute home. Oh, and the guy who sat down next to me was unbelievably minging drunk.
Not to be deterred, I nipped out to the garage, and had my first Zwift session since March. 20km, 220m of climbing in 40 minutes. Not bad for me in my current state.
Showered, watched a bit of telly and bedtime. Then I had the joys of a low level diabetic hypo, pretty much all night. Not bad enough to realise what was going on, but just enough to keep me awake most of the night
4.45am, my alarm doesn't go off. It was the panic in the eyes of my cats that alerted me to the fact their breakfast was 30 minutes overdue and I had no time to sort my own. So I fed the beasts and quickly rushed out the door to try and catch the bus I was now late for.
I'm sitting on it now, broken down at the side of the motorway. Lucky White Heather, anyone?
Opening the shutters on the sunny side of the house and airing in the day rather than at night.
Canons Ashby visit on Sunday (lovely autumn garden) followed by getting the log burner on
My first autumn in Scotland for decades.
It gets dark quickly here. It's colder than the south.
We haven't gone past the autumn equinox yet, sunset is still slightly later the further north you are.
Off to Spain on Friday for a week of riding. Should provide a nice little epilogue to Summer. Also booked a few days away in Aviemore for the October holidays which will, no doubt, feature starry night skies, crisp Autumn days and/or a chance to test some new wet weather gear.
Cook stew tomorrow.Pork, Brussel Sprouts and Tatties I think.
It’s 24°c here today, probably because it’s still summer. Autumn doesn’t start till the 22nd.
as for celebrations, going to a pumpkin patch and a pumpkin maze, drinking pumpkin beer and pumpkin spiced lates and possibly having some pumpkin pie. Anything involving pumpkins really.