Autumn. Day 2.
Posted in London on September 2nd, 2006 by CoffeeEvery year I get really surprised by how quickly the summer fades here. The days get noticably shorter every week, and we start pulling the curtains earlier and earlier, giving up on the last bit of sunlight that we’d normally try to grab through the summer.
I don’t know why it catches me by surprise every year. I’d think I should be used to it by now, but no. Every year it still gets me.
I think there is a bit of a deliberate block in my mind though. You know once you start getting to this time it’s not too long before the real slide into the long, dark winter sets in. All I can hope is that the winter this year is as mild as my memory tells me that last year’s was.
Maybe I’ve been away too long, but I don’t remember feeling like there was quite the same marked change in seasons in New Zealand that there is here. I guess one day I’ll be able to see again.