Trawling through people's posts today I do find more and more mentions of 'seasons of mists and
mellow fruitfulness'. Cobweb photographs with great beads of dew on them - morning mists over the fields and woods - plenty of that sort of thing.
The seasons go on and there is nothing we can do to stop them. In fact I love Autumn; it is a kind of winding down time and some years Autumn colours are beautiful - let's hope this year is one of those years.
A big reminder of this here in my part of the Dales is the Wensleydale Show. Passing the site today on my way out for our usual Sunday lunch I passed the Show field and already the poles and guy ropes are up ready for the big marquees which will begin to go up on Monday (the show is next Saturday).
The Wensleydale Show is a sign that the Show season is coming to an end. Locals take these events very seriously - the farmers for their livestock and the wives for the produce they grow or the cakes they bake. Our farm was very close to the Showground and each year my farmer would walk up to the show and have his lunch there. (Feed Merchants have large tents and provide a picnic lunch (Pork pies, sandwiches and cake) for those farmers who are their customers. And as anyone will tell you it is a rare Yorkshireman who will not go for a free meal!
I have just watched an episode of 'Swallows and Amazons' on TV (Childrens). My son loved the books when he was a boy and still has the complete set. The children in the book are the same age as I would have been at that time - the books are contemporary to my childhood - and I watch the clothes, the hairstyles, the behaviour in amazement. Did we really behave and dress like that? Obviously we did - these costume dramas are nothing if not accurate but really they seem way before my childhood time. I enjoyed it.
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It has felt like Autumn here the last couple of weeks as stronger winds and rain almost daily have arrived and there's just that "feel" of autumn. After nearly no water this summer, you will not hear a word of moaning about all the rain from me (for a while anyway!!)
I imagine the world and his wife go to Wenslydale show and it is a great place for meeting up with friends and neighbours.
I've been out all day at a Fair today with OH, so we've not seen any tv. Will have to watch out for Swallows and Amazons. I read the book as a child but preferred pony books tbh!
No sign of Autumn yet, it's 95 here today.
Autumn is slowly beginning to creep it's way in here, but the weather is still quite warm during the daytime.
Will you visit the show next week? X
No mists and mellowness here yet, just bone dry late summer and smelly, drying out ditches. I've never read anything my Arthur Ransome I was always a Famous Five child, still am actually. Just ordered a brand new book that's coming out about the life of Enid Blyton to go with the other books that I have about her.
Still summer in France but I've noticed the first plumes appearing on the pampas grass, a sure sign autumn is on its way.
We had a lovely day here, about 23C, though from time to time a bit cloudy.
However, I noticed that the colours of the leaves are changing, so Autumn is on its way.
It must be nice to live so close to the Wenslydale Show.
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It doesn't feel like Autumn here, just late Summer.
I loved Swallow and Amazons, still have the book. Hoping to pass on to grandchildren.
It is still humid here and I can't wait for the fresher autumn days and mornings when there is a chill to the air! The Wenslydale show sounds wonderful and a nice way to spend a day. I was brought up on Enid Blyton. I am a working class woman but read in a middle class voice!
No autumn here yet. Still slapping on the sun cream. It's to be 30 - 35 C yet again in the whole land through next week according to the national forecast. Lots of people swimming in the rivers and lakes.
Your description evokes all my Creatures Great and Small reading.
I would love to go to that fair. That must be a great one. I've been reading much about the Brontes of late as I guess their anniversary is nigh. I didn't know before hand that it was your Yorkshire moors where they lived and wrote. What is your favorite work of theirs? I think mine is Wuthering Heights.
Your words are so poetic describing the coming of Autumn. It is my favorite season as well as there seems to be a coziness and homey feeling to it. We still have summer here with hot and humid weather although today there is a light rain falling which we badly need. All the children here went back to school last week after their summer break and even though my boys are grown the start of school makes me think of Autumn. It will be here soon as I already see plans in motion for the local fairs that come in September.
I thought the new version of Swallows didn't have the feeling of the original; or even of the book. My sister and I were named after two of the characters, and no doubt if we'd had another sister she would have been called Titty (poor soul).
Wishing it was Autumn here again, it's my favourite season, we are just coming into Spring and then Summer, not looking forward to it.
Virginia creeper and the perennial geraniums are starting to show the red of Autumn in their leaves, these shows are wonderful but I am not sure I could face all the people.
There are rosehips on the hedgerows already, and lampion flowers have appeared in gardens already some weeks ago - for me, these are the first messengers of autumn. But we are still very much in high, highest summer right now, with daytime temperatures still reachng around 30 Celsius and almost no rain.
I'd love to visit the Wensleydale Show, but by the time we're in Yorkshire this year, all shows are over. Maybe next year!
Swallows and Amazons? I am not familiar with the books but they sound like something I'd enjoy.
Thelma - the show field is large so the people are quite spread out. In the show tents it is more crowded but I never went in them. When you have seen one Victoria sandwich cake you have seen them all. The hardest thing is the queue of cars to get it. If you do decide to come then do let me know.
Thanks everyone for your visits.
I feel the look of Autumn is coming early this year. I have spotted several trees where the leaves are drying, withering and falling off already. I assume it's the trees protecting themselves from the lack of rain water.
I watched that new film of Swallows and Amazons too and thought what a shame it was they had to deviate from the book so much to suit modern audiences.
For the first time ever, I am looking forward to Autumn. It is a beautiful time of year but for me it meant goodbye to Summer and this year's oh so hot and humid Summer has been a real trial and I look forward to crisper days.
Agricultural shows are always a good day out but I think some of the very large ones are a bit too much, and the smaller local ones are far more enjoyable. I don't blame the farmer for going to enjoy his free lunch. Sounds like a jolly good idea.
I was tempted to watch Swallows and Amazons but was afraid that they might not have kept strictly to the book. After reading Sue's comment it seems I was right. Why do film makers take a much loved classic and then try to improve on it?
I have the film recorded to watch but I do believe that one change made was in order to suit the PC brigade, did they not change one girl's name from Titty to something else.
I must say it didn't occur to me that I was watching a film, I thought it was just an episode in a TV serial - that is certainly how it came over. I must look it up and see if there is another episode next Sunday.
According to my TV book Pat, it was a Freeview Premier of a 2016 period drama - I think that means a film but I could be wrong.
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