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Saturday 22 October 2011

Leaves and stuff

Autumn.


I LOVE autumn. Why? Pleases refer to the list below:


i) It's cold. Cold enough for scarfs and hats, and gloves and warm wooly coats.
ii) It's also cold enough for hot chocolates and soups. (It's even cold enough to eat a Magnum really slowly because it doesn't start to melt as quickly, which is fun.) 
iii) Sometimes it's even cold enough for snow, but failing that... at least a biting frost.
iv) There's leaves, everywhere. 
v) These leaves are amazing colours: orange, yellow, green, brown, caramel, crimson, umber, amber, bambi (hang on...), lime, chocolate, gold.
vi) I get to wear a coat that makes me look like Paddington Bear
vii) It's closer to my birthday
vii) It's closer to Christmas
viii) Drinking red wine by a fire on which you propose to roast chestnuts and cook marshmallows until you realise it's electric. 
ix) Going for a walk on a freezing a brilliantly blue day is unbeatable.
x) Whilst on that walk you can kick through the fallen leave (see points ix and v for reference)
xi) If you're really lucky you can watch someone else kicking through the leaves and accidently kicking hidden dog poo
xii) If you're really unlucky that person isn't someone else, it's you.
xiii) The nights draw in and walking home as dusk falls whilst wrapped in your warm wears (see point i), watching the sky turn the same colours of the leaves feels secretly magical.
xiv) Hot Toddies at any time of the day are allowed, in fact they are encouraged.
xv) Everything feels fresh and new and crisp and clean, even though the leaves are actually dying and you keep treading in dog shit.
xvi) Conkers
xvii) Seeing hedgehogs with their prickly little backs and their squidgy faces.
xviii) Having the chimney sweep come around (I don't know why I've included this... I've never had this happen)
xix) Bonfires and peoples glowing faces when stood around them. 




They are the reasons I love autumn. It also smells nice, a little like frozen musty honey.. which sounds disgusting but it isn't. 
I think i'd going to go to the park now to watch some people kick through the leaves... and maybe get a little surprise. A poo surprise. 

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