I smell winter

[subaqua]

the smell of winter is bloody log burners on narrow boats and barges along the winter moorings on the regents canal. cough choke splutter on way home.

 

[I like Skol]

Bl00dy wimps the lot of you moaning whiners!
Still summer and shorts weather here in Manchester

 

[Kevoffthetee]

Had to break out the t-shirt from the cupboard, the short sleeved one. The long sleeved doesn't come out until it snows

 

[coffeejo]

Bl00dy wimps the lot of you moaning whiners!
Still summer and shorts weather here in Manchester

Nope, definitely autumn but I'm with you on the shorts. (Not indoors though as my house is only warmer than The Great Outdoors when it snows, thanks to the extra insulation, or during heat waves because the universe is cruel and mean.)

 

[AndyRM]

I'm totally with @coffeejo on this.

Autumn is an absolutely glorious season, easily my favourite. The transitions, the smells, the weather, the evenings (I could go on) simply cannot be matched by any other.

 

[Drago]

My love for cycling will be Forever Autumn.

 

[numbnuts]

My love for cycling will be Forever Autumn.

View: https://youtu.be/hsCdlX-5UjE

 

[steveindenmark]

Im waiting for the first real frost as I have found masses of sloe berries.

 

[I like Skol]

Im waiting for the first real frost as I have found masses of sloe berries.

Steve, you and me need to talk. I am aching to try making some sloe gin this year and need to know what the berries look like so I know I am picking the right thing.
Google isn't really giving me a definitive image that I can use for a positive I.D so can you give me, a total horticultural numpty, an idiots guide to spotting sloe berries?

I have bottles waiting

 

[steveindenmark]

I have never made it before either so if I am telling you total rubbish on your head be it.

Sloe berries grow on Blackthorne tree
and are best picked after the first frosts as the frost helps them to lose their bitterness. The berries are not poisionous but the thorns are if they stab you.

The berry is a purple/ black/ green colour. I am sure you will find photos on the net along with photos of blackthorne
leaves.

If there are any experts who want to put me right. Please jump in.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Getting colder, heating going on, only a matter of time before the leaf mulch appears on the Railway Path here in Brizzle. Signs of autumn for me are the whiff of bonfire smoke form the local allotments.

 

[keithmac]

I miss the smell of the sugar beet being processed in the sugar factory in York, that was the "winter" smell for me above all others.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I miss the smell of the sugar beet being processed in the sugar factory in York, that was the "winter" smell for me above all others.

Same for me but from the factory in Kidderminster.

 

[hennbell]

In this end of the world we got our first snow of the year today. Just a small sprinkling but snow has official fallen.

 

[potsy]

Heating's on