– Neighbours houses suddenly come alive with activity.
– All the cars in the house are back on the driveway.
-the so far pleasantly uncrowded parks are bustling with children with too much energy
– you come across mums showing off their new tans proudly while taking their children and dogs for a walk
– you come across Grandmas back on baby sitting duty until term time commences (and you can make out that they are counting days;) )
– Back to school deals are on , in every possible store.
– the saddest part – knit wear is back on shelves! Believe me – the sight of knit wear back on shelves makes me cry. Summer is nearly over and winter is nearly here!
Summer oh summer,
You gave us just a glimmer,
you flirted,
and skirted,
around windy days
and rain drenched ways,
we longed for you when you were here
and will now pine away till the next summer is here.
Summer(sunny days), do you think you will be sweet enough to grace us with your presence, in the very last long weekend of the year? Or do you want songs to convince you, in Swaram and Deeps style?
Am I really first?
Yes you are 🙂
Yes I am! I really am!
Btw, a sweet post. I can completely identify with the heart sinking at the sight of knitwear!
I knew you would be able to identify with that 🙂 Now comes the long winter.. Infact London was much better – it is much colder and greyer in Leeds 😦
Fish!!! Second
– you come across mums showing off their new tans proudly while taking their children and dogs for a walk
Lovely 🙂
I knew I would get that reaction from you 🙂
Btw, lovely short poem…
And if you love summer so much, welcome to Dubai!
I suspect I love summer so much , because we are here – where we hardly get to see the sun 🙂 One sunny day and the whole world comes out doors 🙂
beta tu aaj bhi neeche… !! lol 😛 😛
Hitchy, lovely profile pic 🙂
oh that handsome guy makes all pics look awesome !!!!!
I should have clarified! That lovely lady makes the pic special 🙂
yes hitchy,you’re looking good because Hetal is looking even better…why are you strangling her??because you cant accept that she looks better in the snap than you??and yet poor soul,Hetal,despite that strangulation,is smiling so beautifully!! Kya Hitchy,tum hi,na 😀 😛
LOL! Deeps! That was classic! Hitchy, did not know that you were this cruel!
teri to.. i aint strangling her !!!!!!!!!!! ha ha ha ha ha… !!!!!! kya deeps tum bhi na !!!!!!!
ROFL !!!!!!!
Hetal is so sweet 🙂 hw did she ever errrrr chodo 😉 😉
I know Swaram! I am sure Hitchy did some jaadu tona 😉
I agree.. Heetal makes the pic lovely!! 😛
*crafty arrives very late*
hitchu! crafty’s here!!
*clears throat and recites*
HITCHU MAKES PIC LOOK NICE!!! HE’S THE NICEST!!! CUTEST!!! SWEETEST!!!!! AND….AND…… *pondering*
🙂 ROFL, Crafty!! You should be writing cartoons! Seriously!
*hitchy cues in rest of dialouge… “crafty loves…..”
yes yes, i remember!!!
CRAFTY LOVES HICTHU’S SNAP!!!!!
*looks at hitchu for promised ice cream treat for that recital*
See – evidence of bribery again 🙂
😆
both looks gorgeous! touchwood!
rofl 🙂
I knew i could atleast count on you !!!!!!!!!!!
Crafty is the best !!!!!
OH Smitha.. I dont like summers at all, I think its London summer which is pleasing, otherwise I have seen summer is very irritating everywhere, I am waiting for winter:)
I used to hate summers in India too. I used to wonder while reading Enid Blyton books – how could someone like summers 🙂 Now I know why 🙂
Man, its been ages since I came first on any post.
Need to get back to bribing 😉
lol I tell u all u guys believe in bribing learn from swaram 😉
swaram and masood are bribers ????????/
and I thought swaram was a contender to pass on the itchy and scratchy legacy !!!!!!!!
OMG !!!!!
Monu tune to meri aankkhen khol di… !!
:grrrrrrrrr Monu is bd 😦
me no cheats 😦
When did I ever do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! U need talent Monu nt bribe 😉 😉
nahin re swaram this hitchy is trying to divide and rule I said learn from swaram to not bribe and come first 🙂
Me nt blind 😦
my god u really angry 🙂
doesnt suit u my dear 😉
U think so 😉
Look who is talking! The king of comment fixing 😉
king of comment fixing???
how cud u say that smithu!!!
*shows hitchu’s face to smithu*
look at this innocent face!!!
*looks at hitchu..he’s looking sneaky n smug*
erm….okie okie…
See, Hitchy, even Crafty finds you looking sneaky and smug 🙂
i resign….
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smithu! comment fixing is very rampant! but…..*looks around..gets a a big book* main iss dictionary pe haath rakke kasam khaati hoon…itchy n scratchy never part of any fixing!! if this is untrue..may the dictionary shred to pieces….
*smithu gone to get vaccumm to clear shreds of the dictionary on floor*
Crafty, I laughed so much when I read this 🙂 And I was reading it while there were guests at home – they must have thought that there is something wrong with me, to laugh so hard looking at the phone 🙂
there is my buddy !!!! fighting valiantly for a lost cause… !! all for me !!!!!!! 😀 😀
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Smi, comon..dont tell me you were hooked to the blog even while guests were home?!?
I sneakily take peaks into the phone – bad idea if I end up reading comments and laugh out loud 🙂
Masoood its bad… this addiction is horrible bad… !!
U ever accepted then 😉 Tell tell 😛
Chor ki daadhi mein tinka !!!!!!!!!!! 😛 😛 😛
She is J of me 😦
see he has succeeded 😦 😦
Hitchy will be unhappy, unless he is first 🙂 We missed this first race, didn’t we when Hitchy was on holiday?
ROFL 😆 so this is where the bribe story comes frm… and continued onto my post as well 😛 hitchy, tum bhi na!
You know, Hitchy’s funda na? Any time anybody other than him is first – cry fixing 😉
hello !!!!!!! every one check… !!!! i never said anything about fixing… i only said monu opened my eyes… and chor ki daadhi mein tinka… !!!!!!!!!
stop making counter allegations to save your own skin !!!!!! please !!!!
Actually, I am first!! 😛 😛
Since you guys can’t decide whether Swaram cheated or not, I will take the title of being first graciously!!! 😉
:grrrrrrrrrrrr U late lateef n just proclaiming always 😛
No bribing needed masood… lets confirm on number 😆
You’re the first and probably the only person I know who feels bad at the end of summer. We all long for it to pass through quickly so that the cooler breezier winter days are here…..
But I know, when you have sub-zero degree temperatures or rain for 8 months a year, I don’t blame you for feeling like that.
Grass in always greener on the other side 🙂 I remember how bad desert summers are. I spent a couple of years in Arizona – and yes, winters felt like a huge blessing 🙂
How bout that song, Smi? Why take chances na. Lets have it….
Can’t think of any summer song – can you?
Masood..just wait for Solilo,Sakshi & all those living in umreeka & europe to hit this page and we’ll be thrown out of this space like dirts!!
Saare mile hue hai to turn this world into a hot all of fire 😦
Deeps yeah shooo shooo now…It’s time for Umreekan ppl to put their mouth prints here. Time out for you. Go go do the shampooing!
oye!dont forget I have the shampoo with me..it will take me no time to splash it on you and you’ll have to run back dripping frothy..husshh…hurrrr!!
BTW,mere saathiyon..where are you????
Deeps, am having friends over for dinner – and have not started cooking yet – was hooked on comments so far and it is already 4 in the afternoon – have 2.5 hours to cook, clean , make the house and me and Poohi presentable 😦 sob sob
All gone re in search of the perfect asli blonde lady….hee it’s you and me now…
hehe! so, what did you cook Smithus?!
N food?
I LOVE Arizona, Smitha. I would love to go back there but husband doesn’t support my plans. 😦
I had a lovely time in Arizona – but that was because I had a bunch of wonderful friends there – the weather – I used to love winters and HATE the summers 🙂
You want summer… come to Indore !!! in may !!!!!! pah…. !!!!!
I love winter… !!!!! 😛 😛 😛
ask people in delhi, chennai places like that they will gladly give the summer to u 🙂
I know, I guess I should say I love the English summer 🙂 It is absolutely gorgeous – when it lasts!
i hate summers and i soooo love the winters
I used to too – in India – now I dread winters – cold, wet and windy! argh!
knitwear – eekss!!! Those are things I won’t miss in Singapore…I don’t like winters although autumn is good…
Yes, you certainly won’t miss it in Singapore 🙂 Autumn is good, but here summer is better 🙂
😀 😀 😀 😀
I say the same abt summers 😦 The knit-wear doesn’t hv to come out too 😦
Grass is always green on the other side 😛
True – grass is always greener on the other side 😦 Am sure once I reach back – will be cursing summer 🙂
I think femail is better.
I am ready to put up any rain song- shakira or bipasha to delay winter. I HATE it with all my heart, body and soul. Winter is house arrest, can’t go out anywhere due to the freaking snow and ice. I have issues carrying my own weight on top of that I have to carry 10 lbs worth of coat, jacket, sweater, topi, gloves, scarf dammit. No winter please god.
‘I have issues carrying my own weight on top of that I have to carry 10 lbs worth of coat, jacket, sweater, topi, gloves, scarf dammit. No winter please god.’ – exactly my problem! I hate that winter house arrest! And even opening the windows is depressing 😦 All you can see is grey outside AND it gets dark at 3 😦 No no winters please!
hop on the next flight and come to this part of the world,SJ and I’ll happily be in your shoes 😀
SJ but without winters what will you do with all that stuff you knit like mad? Put it in a showcase or send it to Sakshi?
Your poem is nice. Good lyrics and good rhyming too! Write more.
Thank you – was just in the mood for some experimenting 🙂
For you, winter is boring, for us Summer means sweating…
I know! funny, isn’t it how perspective changes! I used to wait for the monsoons and the winters when I was in India – now it is a no no 🙂
I had been thinking on similar lines Smitha. Just hoping the summer days will last little longer here. The wool has to be back. 😦
You too:( I hate it when I see the knit wear back on shelves:(
and those lines were nice. 🙂
Thank you 🙂
smithus, i think being in a european country makes u appreciate summer far far better 🙂 i remember my london days… and how we wud wait for March to pass by…!
cute poem btw! 😀
‘ being in a european country makes u appreciate summer far far better’ – That is the key 🙂 I used to love the rains when I was in India 🙂 And thank you 🙂
hehe i loved the poem, it beautifully describes the sadness and longing for Sweet Summer 🙂
Thank you 🙂 I was just playing around with words 🙂
I LOve summers. mainly because of the summer holidays 🙂
holidays..leisure.. all the kids in the neighborhood playing on the road..ah!!to enjoy summers is the real enjoyment..
and the poem u wrote was nice 🙂
You love summers too 🙂 It does feel nice no? Children on holidays – there is a feeling of happiness around 🙂
Oh! believe me you are in a better place, you would never exchange with me.
No, I would not want to live in a hot place.. You are right.The summer here is so pleasant, because it is nice and mild 🙂
My word. There seems to be a Formula One race on here to comment!
Formula One race? more of a blood bath 🙂
Is that lovely poem yours? If its is, you sure are no mean poet.
Thank you 🙂 it was just me playing with words :
arre..you dont have to call out to summers…just call out to me..I’ll give you as much summer as you want…sunny,scorching,sweltering,dripping-sweating,burning summer…and you dont have to convince me at all nor do I need any seductive song presentation like SJ 😀
Lets just trade places,Smits!!
Oh Deeps, that description of yours reminds me of my time in Arizona! Hot hot hot! If the car happened to be out in the sun, without a sunshade – there was no way we could get into it. Goodness, winters are actually better than that 🙂
No seductive song required 🙂 I was thinking more on the lines of a song to seduce my summer to stay longer 🙂 I like summer here – nice and mild 🙂
Deeps, there are lots of people requesting shampoos from you – in my previous post 🙂
Swaram ishtyle 😉 😉
Even here holidays are getting over,malls are getting crowded and much traffic on the roads.Worried how many people will bring swin flu from india to UAE.
Oh dear! Yes, that is a worry too.. Here swine flu was already there 🙂
And my blogging time is going to reduce from 30th as daughter school starts.
Oh yes! I thought you would get more time once Varunavi goes to school – no?
Your winter = summer here,horrible.Can’t go out till 8.00 in the evening.If at all we go, has to carry loads of tissues and water bottles.I hate summer.
I can imagine!
Nice poem 🙂
Thank you, Saritha 🙂
Once varunavi goes to school i have to play with pinkuda which varunavi is doing in the holidays and i am doing blogging.She always wants my attention on her and never allows me to do anything other than playing with her.
And also has a job of dropping and picking up varunavi
Ohh Smitha this was such an eye opening post about Comment Fixing. It’s such a wide spreading problem and we feel so helpless and violated, don’t we? I am glad that everyone here is taking that necessary finger up on the keyboard to tackle this problem and bring their views on the fore front at your comment box….phew!!! Dammit I need to relocate to be the first one to comment here…the time zone sucks here.
How abt we plan and post during common hours 😉 That was we can escape these comment monsters;) and come first all the time:)
Ok now about the Summer. Hey I love all the seasons equally and wait eagerly for all of them. In fact I love the sight of knit wears on racks…winters is fashionable for me. The layers of clothes on me puts a pacifier into the mouths of people who otherwise keeps asking me “Don’t you ever eat anything? Why are you so thin?” And winters is not house arrest for us…skiing…yipee the thought itself makes me yearn for winters. We hibernate usually on summers 😦 and thank god Boston summer is very short.
You are one lucky lady! You are asked “Don’t you ever eat anything? Why are you so thin?” ! I have people trying to figure out if I am pregnant again – tactfully;)
And in winters – even more so, with all the layers of clothes that I can’t do without!! No wonder you like winters 🙂
😛 😛 😛
summer means open air barbacue……….. 😛
I prefer summer to any other season 😛
Hi-Fi OGeed. I can’t stand Snow and Winter.
YAY!!!!!!!! 😛
I hear you on this! I too find it depressing that summer is getting over. There’s going to be no more Mangoes 😦
Though i won’t mind not sweating a bucket every hour.
so sad na…
wish they never did got over..huh!!
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I’m again fashionably late in commenting here!! 😀
Thats me too 🙂 – ‘fashionably late in commenting’
Lovely poem! 🙂
Thanku thanku
“Back to school deals are on , in every possible store.”
So true!!
Here too at the beginning of the new school term, lots of fancy deals were on for kids!!
I know 🙂 I dread it 🙂
poem is mast. smithu!!!
u miss summers!! i wud do anything to get outta summers here!
I miss the summers here – am sure I wouldn’t back home 😦 Summers are really nice here.. Mild and beautiful!
i love winters instead! i but knit wear and my mom shouts coz i never wear it…just they look so comfy, me gets them! 😛
You mustn’t be getting much of a chance to wear them in Mumbai..
last year toh, in mumbai, i remember winters lasted like 4 weeks or so! after that it was same humid climate! pah!!!
Oh dear! You know last time we came to Mumbai – Jan end this year, Poohi , being so used to wearing her coat and hat , here, refused to take them off at the Mumbai Airport. She stepped out in all her finery only to take it off as it was soo hot 🙂
ur title reminded me of Enid Blyton!!! Malory Towers!!! Summer Hols!!!
Summer here reminds me of them too. Ice cream vans and children having fun 🙂 I used to wish and wish that my parents send me to boarding school..
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Hugs and muahs to you too!!
Summer flirted and skirted, glimmered and shimmers … love these lines 🙂
End of summer holidays also means that mothers have more time to blog again 🙂
Thats such a sweet poem 🙂
And u r calling summer with so much excitement and that makes me guess that summers there are not what we are used to seeing here 🙂
No it is nothing like summers back home 🙂 You know, when it gets slightly hot here, they call it an ‘Indian summer’ 🙂 Little do they know how much hotter an Indian summer is 🙂 First time I came here, I was so shocked to see no fans in the houses.. A/c of course, door ki baat ho gayi 🙂
Nice poem Smitha 🙂
I love summers anyday but this year it has long lasted till now… very hot… 😦 and yesterday we had the blessing of rain and I thoroughly enjoyed… now its kinda cool 🙂
You like summer – despit being in Chennai 🙂 I never liked summers in India.. but now I love them 🙂 Yes, rain is indeed a blessing there 🙂
Oh yeah! and am I GLAD. 😀
You are glad that summer is over 😦 I wish that it would go on forever 🙂
I am waiting for Autumn, my fav. season and Peanut is waiting to start her Kindergarten. Phew! Summer….
I like summer best, because that is the only season where we can walk around without jackets and coats 🙂 Even in summer – that is difficult at times..
I love Summer-beaches and had fun here this Summer.
I LOVE summer beaches!
I am not too fond of rains and here when it rains, it pours.
Here it rains all through the year.. Winters are the worst when it is cold, windy and wet ! ughh!
Im sad that summer is going away !!! I like it when the sun shines up there always !!! I hate dark and gloomy atmospheres 😦 😦
Heyy, btw, my blog address is the same. I guess you kinda forgot how to reach there 😉
DONT YOU GET IT WOMAN ???? 😀 😀 😀
I kinda dont like summer.. but i love rains and autumn and winter only if its too cold! 😀 😀
Ah lovely poem!
:O
Difficult for me to understand how can someone hate winters…since i totallly loveeeeeeeee it.
Love the foggy mornings (yeah really…i find it romantic ), frozen nose tip, colorful woolens and shocks (You don’t have to worry about those few extra pounds since woolens gonna cover them up anyways), sleeping wrapped in worm blanket, dry weather (totally suits my hair and also gives a chance to use those yummy looking winter care lotions 😛 ), taking bath in warm water, reasons to make and have hot n spicy food :P, winter sweets (yummmm) ……… and yes one more reason to love it …. i was born in winters 🙂
🙂 I take it u dont live in India
No , I don’t 🙂 I live in the UK – where summers are waited for 🙂
It reminds me of the last few days before the school was due to open-you suddenly remember all that you had planned to do and the hols. are almost over.
🙂 I haven’t had that experience yet – daughter is still to start school, but I see my friends in that boat 🙂
Even I find the sight of knitwear and shortening days depressing. Making the most of being in Bangalore now-where winter doesn’t feel so cold and gloomy.
Yes, Bangalore weather is quite good. Are you in Bangalore? We are based out of blore too.. just waiting to get back.
ohh god yes! I know what you mean :(:( summer`s nearly over and guess what? Minnesota wonters tretch endlessly..until almost mid march! :(:(
I meant – winters stretch..:o