Comments on: Autumn In Spitalfields

By: NF

NF — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 05:11:10 +0000

Lovely piece. I’ve been thinking lately about buckeyes, as we call them in parts of the States. When I was little we lived in Ohio—the Buckeye state—and my brothers and I would go to a neighbor’s tree and collected buckeyes and brought them home in a red wagon. I loved looking and them and holding them and running them across my cheek. So smooth.

By: chris young

chris young — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:21:37 +0000

Hi Mate
Nice Autumn article , thankyou. Am same with Conkers and cannot resist picking in Stepney Green as there is a nice tree opposite and plenty of sixers lying about. There is a gang of Albanian builders renovating the Mansion next door and they asked about them and said you can eat them ? as fed up with them blocking the road , using my driveway to park and all the mess and noise . God Bless and don”t advise eating conkers . ? But up the other end of the green found a sweet chestnut tree but the ones found were young and small so keeping an eye out. Also the boxing club is still closed on the green but they have caretakers living in. ? Perhaps open again after the pingdemic is over as it looks like a nice building and good comunity centre and quite historic as was a Synagog too. Thanks Mate and look forward to your articles as new to area and very informative god bless old age pensioner stepney green.

By: Christine Saunders

Christine Saunders — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 06:43:39 +0000

October 1st is the beginning of the gardening year for next years spring/summer gardens. There is so much of nature’s bounty around too, acorns, conkers, berries, fruit, fungi etc. I remember as a child all the seasons were distinctive and you appreciated them for what they were, now for whatever reason they are not so much now, which to m3 is a shame

By: Cherub

Cherub — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 12:40:44 +0000

Everywhere we go in autumn my husband picks up a conker as a souvenir. Yesterday someone gave me a lovely shiny one they’d picked up under the trees at Basel Munster, so I gifted it to him. The rich autumnal colours here in Switzerland are lovely at the moment and I love the crunch underfoot of the falling leaves.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 09:00:32 +0000

As we look forward to reading your notes from another place.
Thank you.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 08:15:02 +0000

Thank you so much, GA, for letting us join in your walks. ?Your chestnut memories are mine too.

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:26:27 +0000

Wonderfully evocative. Made me think of Orwell’s ‘Summer-like for an instant’. I shall find it on my shelf later and enjoy once again.

By: H Billing

H Billing — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:12:32 +0000

And I look forward to reading your beautifully written blog every day. Thank you so much. I too pick up chestnuts – I love their glossy colour, almost as if they were polished by a god.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:42:24 +0000

You sum up the impact of how ‘the balance of the season has shifted’ so beautifully. Years ago I came up with the line ‘September whispers of December’. My friend loved it and around the equinox, we always say it to each other. Not quite a greeting, not quite a blessing but a sharing of the turning towards the dark.

In the words of Dean Martin may I wish you ‘a cosy fire to keep you warm’ in late autumn and winter.

By: akkers

akkers — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:32:30 +0000

This reminds me of my Dad who loved this time of the year and always picked up the good conkers. This was hangover from his childhood days when he used to fight with them with his school friends. In his later years Dad always had one or two at home which he swapped out each year and used to pick up on one of his walks. Nowadays I too pick them up and put them in my wardrobes to keep the spiders and moths away which is an old wives tale that works.