Autumn’s best ‘bits’

Moving on from the lightness of summer to get to the darkness of winter - in the middle we stumble upon autumn.  It has some very ‘black’ elements to it which I think give this season a special feeling.  

Spring has hope, Summer has sun, Winter has Christmas (unless you’re stuck in a perpetual Narnia) but only Autumn promises something scary!

For two weeks at the end of October to the beginning of November we wallow in the occult, the unsavoury, the unpleasant and the downright bloody.  

People now call out  ‘Happy Halloween!’  Don’t they know the origin of ‘dressing up’ comes from disguising yourself so that evil spirits can’t recognise you and suck your brains out?  Yeah.......have a happy time :(

Bonfire night - now what could be ‘dark’ about lighting a fire? We ‘celebrate’ the capture of Guy Fawkes in his failed attempt to blow up the King and the houses of Parliament. Poor old Guy - he was the fall guy that night caught redhanded with the gunpowder!  Did you know he managed to jump from his scaffold before he was hanged?  No, he didn’t escape - he broke his neck!  But there’s a happy end to his tale......he wasn’t alive when they cut off his private parts, tore out his bowels, cut off his head and cut his body into four equal pieces!

Happy Bonfire night!

I love Autumn