Autumn

I've always thought of myself as a true summer-loving kind of gal. Someone who desperately tries to salvage every last bit of all the wonderful things a slightly warmer climate hopes to bring. But summer gal no more I tell you. It might be just a crush, but I am as of very recently absolutely smitten with multi-coloured leaves, cozy sweaters, fairy lights, boots and pumpkins. 

This sudden change of heart might be due to the fact that I this year have a flat of my own to transform into a little autumnal heaven. I plan to have both candles and blankets placed in every nook and cranny of our place very soon. Incidentally, these will multi-function as survival gear as my flatmate and I are still too stinchy to put the heating on. 

Of course not all autumn days look as magical as this, but recently Aberdeen has seen quite a few of them which I'm obviously very excited about. It's like every lovely day we get might possibly be the very last one of the year, which means I can therefore not waste it indoors. It's a very poor set up for studying as the rainy, windy days forces one to find references or actually read that darn Shakespeare play. 

And then there's the beach. Ah, my love for this ol'thing will have to be expressed in a much lengthier blog post. But for now I shall just say that it is by far my favourite place in Aberdeen. It's a place for running, walking, sitting, thinking, reading and surfing. I'm hoping I'll be able to do most of it all through the year, excluding the surfing. It was kind of a twice in a lifetime and never ever again sort of thing.