BEGINNING OF AUTUMN.

September 22nd, 2018

A change of season.

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Whenever the season changes I feel excited. As a kid, autumn was my least favourite season – due to the beginning of school and the increasingly shorter hours of light – but as I’ve gotten older, I find something to look forward to in each season. 

Autumn is now something I see as very cosy; a transitioning period.

The busy summer months have ended, and I’m able to take things much slower. I’m still running around here and there, with guests coming and trips around the corner, but my day to day life has slowed down, allowing me to find time to read and catch up with Netflix shows.

It feels like the quiet season, to me.

Mine and Felix’s birthdays are in October, as well as my favourite holiday – Halloween.

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I’m already excited about the spooky period to begin, and I’ve picked up this book – Eight Ghosts – a couple of weeks ago, from a book shop.

When I saw it, I enjoyed the fact that it was a collection of short horror stories, but I’ve been liking this book more than I could have imagined:

usually, whenever I buy ‘a collection of’ type of books, I get brief stories from the same writer (which is totally fine) but because these are written by different authors, it is interesting to notice how varied their writing styles are, and their approach to the horror theme;
each writer was given a location to be inspired by, in order to write their story; after I read one, I like to google the place. I have never seen or heard any of these buildings before, so whenever I stumble across one I am fascinated by, I add it to my list of possible places to check out, here in the UK.
In a section of the sleeve, it actually says that by purchasing the book, we are helping to conserve these historic buildings; which I think it’s fantastic.

I don’t have many stories left to go, but my favourite one so far is Foreboding by Kamila Shamsie; another I enjoyed is the very first one, They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek by Sarah Perry – I liked it mostly because it reminded me (veeery loosely) of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.

That is such a great book! But then again, I love Shirley Jackson’s stories.

There are two movies based on it, one from the 1963 in black and white; the other one is more recent, from the 90s. I haven’t seen either just yet, but I’m sure I will get to watch them soon.

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I was surprised to see that Netflix has just released a trailer for a new horror show, with the same title. If the show was its own thing, I would be thrilled as it does look very interesting and creepy, but I was slightly confused by the fact that I can’t seem to see any similarities to the novel? Other than the title, the show doesn’t have anything in common, but then again, I may just have to wait and see – I may be surprised!

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Anyway, I always give you a quick update on my life, so here is one for the past week: Felix and I drove to the holiday home, which is always fun as it’s a beautiful ride, and I love road trips.

We had some furniture delivered to us, so we got to put up this bookshelf in the living room, which made the space feel a bit less empty.

We want to keep a clean, simple look – as stated in the past – so we are being very selective with what we bring into the home.

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It feels much cosier, and I’m looking forward to chilly nights sitting around the wood burner.

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I’ve also got two full days to work on pottery, so I managed to make 6 (when you work with pottery, it’s a bit of a waiting game). Unfortunately they weren’t dry enough to sand and put in the kiln yet, so I had to leave them. I was hoping to have these up by the end of the month, but we can’t make another trip to the holiday home in time, so they will be available in October.

On Wednesday evening we drove back as we had a work meeting on Thursday, which went great – as you may know, my team is based in Canada, so it’s always nice to catch up, face to face.

Yesterday I spent the day filming and editing, so expect a video later today!

What are you guys up to this weekend?

And are you excited about the change of season, or do you wish that summer lasted a bit longer?

 

Marzia