Voilà, c´est la rentrée! Back to school!
Life is getting back to normal.
The children started school two days ago and are happy to be busy, seeing their friends again. The lovely fresh and clean folders and books with their names on them are not yet mutilated by bored graphic training during the lessons and they are reliefed - to be honest - to have some more structure in their lifes.
Nothing more boring than endless days of holidays without programmes and duties for them.
(We, on the other hand, now being oldies and without illusions any longer, love endless "idle" days - the luxury of sitting in your salon and just looking stupid in the air... Not so the young. And they are right.)
After this very wet summer, it looks like we shall have a very wet autumn as well - so goodbye to the hopes for a lovely and cosy Indian Summer with high temperatures during golden Septemberdays and the twilight pleasure of getting your cardigans out to put them over the lovely linendress in the afternoon. Finally we can start to dress more like grown ups again - so difficult in t-shirts and shorts to look respectable.
For me this slow change in temperature, light and quality of air is one of the great pleasures of the approaching autumn.
Indeed, september and october are some of my favourite months - the summer/holiday feeling swings over in the happy forecast of things to come, of cooler days, the first fire in the open fire place, putting another woolblanket over your bed and storing away those summersandals. You willl think of changing your handbag from the white summer one back to the - in my case - green - autumn one. Out go the corals, whites and bright blues in your wardrobe, in come the soft greys, the first dark greens and you will have to inspect your socks and stockings. This also is the time to have a look through your silk scarfs and accessoires...
And book a date with your favourite hairdresser to get the glory on your head back into the best possible condition after all that beach and bleach in the sun! For the very conscious, a dive into facials, pedicures and manicures is de rigeur. We other mortals go and have a look at the first collections of lipsticks at MAC and Maybelline.
We wait eagerly for the september and october issues of our favourite fashion magazines, just to be sure, that orange and red this fall/winter is the colour to sport. Lucky the ones who have a Red Handbag!
Careful consideration is required for boots and coats - right now the perfect time to go shopping, as the collections are just in freshly arrived and choice in models and sizes (just think of shoes in size 40 - gone in a moment!) is still vast. The other good opportunity to shop for those items are the sales in january - quite a clever move, if you are more on the classic side.
Once again we study the programmes of the opera and concerts coming up until Christmas. There are some treats coming up... And the idea to go to the cinema is not longer prompted by the need of aircondition, but by the genuine desire to see the latest Woody Allen, or if you prefer more darkish thoughts, the last Lars von Trier movie.
In September, also the first cocktails show up pretty soon, followed by belated birthday parties and perfumed by the genuine desire to see ones friends again - everybody is tanned and happy to be back.
Until Christmas now time will fly.
Start to think about presents and Christmas Cards now - especially if you have not yet a picture of your dear ones in the box...! On our fridge, the Christmas list is hanging since yesterday - together with the new busschedule and timestables for school.
In the end, for me the "year" starts in september - not in january.
My life goes from summerholidays to summerholidays - linked to the schoolrhythms and the two big changes in the year - winter to spring in march/april and then summer to autumn in september/october.
I could forgo happily the 6 weeks from the first of january until the 15th of february. Most dreaded time of the year.
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