The Susanne

Autumn came sud­denly this year. A month ago I returned from London laden with clothes suit­able for the first, warm month of autumn which I thought was ahead of me. What met me off the plane, was grey skies and freez­ing tem­per­at­ures. And rain. Loads and loads of rain. Very depress­ing, very wet. It took me about a week of daily soak­ings to learn that leav­ing the house without an umbrella is just plain stupid. I’m not used to this kind of weather — autumn is sup­posed to be lovely, sunny, slightly cooler than summer at first then gradu­ally pro­gress­ing toward winter. A day or two of rain, then snow. Cer­tainly noth­ing like what we’ve been exper­i­en­cing this year. This guy wasn’t very happy about his lot either:

When you’ve had sev­eral days of con­tinu­ous, pour­ing rain and feel like noth­ing will ever make you happy again, I’ve dis­covered there are a few things you can do to cheer you up:

– Buy some pink lilies!

– Make chicken breast bur­gers with rocket and real parmesan cheese and store bought home chips (the kind that takes only 5 minutes!)

– Go out for a couple of beers with a mate

– Warm up on some lovely rib-​eye steak with veget­ables and creole sauce. Feel the heat!

– Go for a walk in the even­ing after the rain and enjoy the smell of wet apshalt…