[Closed] What does Autumn mean to you?

A season that doesn't lie to me. A season I can trust.

Baking

My favourite colours,clear fresh air.

Spectacular sunsets, where you seem to be able to see forever, and clean, crisp mornings

The coming of the dark. BBBLLLLAAACCKKKKK, WHAT'S FOR TEA MOTHER? PPIIIINNNSSS.

leaves, jumpers, the start of dark beer, pies and real fires.
Throw in some slow cooked food and hugging the aga (when I had one) after a ride

Playing conkers and crunching through the leaves with minivader

Oooooo - and the slow cooker coming back out of retirement. Just christening it this week. Theres been a beef goulash in there all day. Mmmmmmmmm

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Best biking of the year. You're fit from the summer but temps are better. Slippy, slidey leaves.

Best sailing of the year. It gets windier. Crisp mornings.

Christmas is coming.

I also loved school so reminds me of being back in September.

Rugby.

Apple pie.

Bonfire night.

What's not to like?

The best season going.
The colours, the smells, the baking, the food, the comfortable temperatures, cyclocross and great trips out. Also Walking Dead & Gotham should be back on 😀

The downside.

XFactor is on TV as is Strictly Come Bore me and soon to be The Voice which is going the same was as Crapfactor "Oh pick me my mum has leukemia *sniff*"

Unfortunatley the Mrs watches em!

Slow cooker came out last week.
Beef in beer this weekend. Had been thinking about doing pork in cider.
Apple crumble dish comes out this week too.

As my mate Cal said to some of the new kids the first day back at school 'it gets worse'

Can I add a good smokey single malt on a cold evening...

...death and decay. I hate Autumn!

Morning rides.

Starting of a bit cool and finishing just right.

Best season of them all, crisp mornings, most of the wee beasties have gone, and it's slow cooker time.

The smell of coal fires throughout the village, it being dark by the time you got home from school, conkers, roast chestnuts, and the annual trip to Kelham Island Museum (and brewery...)

Best season by far.

6 months of perpetual darkness....

The slow onset of winter, dark mornings and later afternoons, wet slippy trails that get churned up, the inevitable onslaught of the run up to Christmas. The bringer of death to fast dusty trails. At least Winter you know it's supposed to be miserable out and take some relish in being out in frosty weather.
Best season - Spring, by a country mile.

Autumn to me is: biking in the leaves/mud, shifting firewood, nights in with the woodburner going (we don't use the central heating unless it's REALLY COLD), start of the shooting season, the back lanes getting muddy and shitty, covering my car in brown slime, making me feel like a rally driver, feeding the sheep, clearing the polytunnel, doing jobs around the farm that have been postponed all year.

And for me, Rallying, or more specifically Rally GB - November is its traditional home, I've been going since I was about 8 or 9 (bunking off primary school), it's a couple of months away, but as soon as I see a cold, foggy, dark morning I'm reminded of those 4am starts to watch my heroes come through the local villages on the road sections to that days stages, then shooting off to see them in action. It's why I bother spending a large proportion of my money on rallying now, rallying to me is 6am in a Welsh forest, 5°C, barely 100 yards visibility, grey sticky mud everywhere, and a bunch of nutters doing 100mph between the trees.

getting to wear longs & jackets

and cyclocross

and CX Hairs vids

what's not to like !

Silent, perfect night rides.
Epic sunsets.
Sunrise commutes.
Brambles finally giving, instead of taking.
Starry nights.
Puffer training.

It's all good.

Stifado!
The warmest stew anywhere!

Piles of wet leaves round the next corner, just waiting to take you down.

Crisp damp mornings giving way to nice sunny days once the mist burns off....

Autumnal smells
The last warm water in Saunton at Autumn half term
Shooting
Fatstock day in the market place
Soft landings in the woods
Two kids' birthdays

Soup - made my first one of the year yesterday (roasted Mediterranean veg & pancetta)
Woodsmoke
Cool not cold.
Diet 🙁

Bleedin fireworks going off all hours from about now until christmas!!!!! 😈

Other than that I like autumn, when the sun comes out it's bloody lovely.

and the TV weather folk can say autumnal!!

The short opening of some seasonal trails where the nettles have died back but before the ground turns to winter mud & sludge.

Dashed hopes.

Hope for crisp sunny days and lovely autumn colours.

Get a couple of them then endless low pressure systems blowing all the autumn leaves off and turning the trails to slop that'll last 6 months.

It used to mean going to American for Thanksgiving.. the weather there was good. Still, grey, cold, calm, a bit frosty, hushed waiting for snow.. loved that.

Used to signify:

Beginning of new ventures
The Equinox/New Year
Beautiful scents and long walks/rides with friends
Fruit picking
Mushroom picking, winter veg, soups
Photographing sublime mists
Chilli every Sunday
Huddled in country pubs

Since married:

Heating
Heating bills
Heating discussions
Hearing about the cold
Guarding against the wet
Guarding against the cold
Etc 😕

I am surprised so many people stop using their slow cooker. Mine gets used through the year for freezer stuff!

A couple more I have thought of.

Fair weather riders are home and away 😛
Idiots driving with their windows down playing sh!t music.

All together now children!

Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
And the silk inside a chestnut shell.
Jetplanes meeting in the air to be refuelled.
All these thing I love so well

So I mustn't forget
No, I mustn't forget.
To say a great big
Thank You
I mustn't forget

Clouds that look like familer face
And the winters moon with frosted rings.
Smell of bacon as I fasten up my laces
And the song the milkman sings

So I mustn't forget
No, I mustn't forget.
To say a great big
Thank You
I mustn't forget

Whipped-up spray that is rainbow-scattered
And a swallow curving in the sky
Shoes so comfy though they're worn out and they're battered
And the taste of apple pie.

So I mustn't forget
No, I mustn't forget
To say a great big thank you
I mustn't forget.

Scent of gardens when the rain's been falling
And a minnow darting down a stream
Picked-up engine that's been stuttering and stalling
And a win for my home team.

So I mustn't forget
No, I mustn't forget
To say a great big thank you
I mustn't forget.

Apple pie & worn out shoes lines are my favourite!

Autumn to me - dog shit hidden under leaves

Mr Buzz Killington, everyone.

3rd best after Spring and Summer.

Bike related ??

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Putting socks on in the study as its cowd on mi feet ,and having to wear jeans again to work and pack the shorts away for a few months , and finally spending more on muckoff cleaning gear

Frosty clear starts to the day.
Fresh air.
Great colours.
Favourite time of year.

putting newspaper in my biking boots! Cold ride home from the pub after a night ride after a couple of pints!

What does Autumn mean to you?

Dark days ahead, cold, Xmas and New Year ... sales, discount, more shopping ... 😆

Better riding climate, shame it's dark so much.

Start of the shit weather. Going to work when it's dark, coming home when it's dark. Still, at least the M5 clears up a bit.

Rain, slippery, green chalk and sticky mud.

In short, no more off road cycling until March.

Panettone from Lidl

Everything starts to die and rot. The nights get longer and darker, the weather wetter and and colder (but not cold enough to be interesting). The mud starts to build up, the puddles stick around longer, leaves block drainage, drivers get even more dopey. November is coming, the worst month of the year. And then on top of everything else people start banging on about **** xmas.

I hate Autumn.

Riding down the steps in the garden sliding on the walnuts that have fallen in the night, sliding around on the carpet of apples in the orchard that means its time to borrow the neighbour's pig to hoover them up. And then remembering what happened last time we tried that.
And generally loving commuting to work through mud and puddles when everyone else is bitching about being stuck on the A34 for an hour. I mean I've been riding my bike in the mud and everything, and no one gets to tell me off!

More riding.. More motivation.. Nice photographs and awesome fungi

A chest infection. Every ****in year.

Making enough blackberry jelly and plum chutney to last until next autumn.
Road biking through russet leaves.
Chill mornings.

Oh and holidays. Lots of holidays. September's great, best month of the year (tied with May). October's fine. November, December and January are awful. February is unbearable. March is the hinterland before life returns in April. I need to get away for two of those months or bad things happen.

At least in December, January and February you can hope for snow.

Best season. Not too hot, not too wet, not too dry, not too [i]nettly[/i]. All these smells! That special watery light you only really get in autumn/early winter. Starting riding in the afternoon, riding through sunset, and ending at night

I suppose I started riding in autumn, it just feels right.

Low Railhead Adhesion.

not too wet,

Lolz.. where do you live?

In the West autumn arrives with the first atlantic low pressure system of September....

The annual Whinlatter hypothermia challenge. Where stevestunts and I pick the coldest wettest saturday of the year for our now quarterly (thanks kids) pedal out.

Feeling cold, but not being able to moan about it. Although it never feels like summer is warm, it actually is, but happens so gradually you don't notice. Then September comes and you suddenly you feel cold because it's only 12 degrees out but it's only September and it's going to get a lot lot worse before it gets better so you better man up and pretend not to notice so you can break out the jackets when the going really gets tough.

On the other hand, toad in the hole.

So it kind of balances out.

molgrips - Member

Lolz.. where do you live?

Edinburgh- they call it the athens of the north, because of its mediterranean climate.