november
By Anne18
@Anne18 (11029)
November 5, 2009 3:15pm CST
What are your thoughts on the month of November?
Past, present and even future! Thoughts, maybe something from your childhood etc.
I have two to start you off...
Have just been out in the carpark for a firework/bonfire display. Our carpark backs onto a field. The children loved it, I was COLD!! It brought back menories of when I was a child when a local family used to build a bonfire, let off fireworks etc on a piece of waste ground where we lived when I was a child (I'm 46 so many years ago). I reember one of the bangers going off as I was crossing the path and it shocked me so much I fell over!!!!
Number 2... I used to visit an elderly lady every week when I was about 15 and she told me one day that she hated November and the clocks going back as it meant it got darker earlier and closing the curtains early meant she couldn't look out the windows and see the people walking by and it meant she spent longer on her own.
Right mylotters over to you...... please don't let me down.
Love
Anne18
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@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
6 Nov 09
Dia de los Muertos, Guy Fawkes Day, Veterans Day, and Saint Andrew's Day, also known as the day of my birth! I love November!
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
7 Nov 09
I am, I am going out to a nice restaurant on my birthday.
@SwissMissMama (6)
• France
6 Nov 09
Happy birthday. I hope you make it special.
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@carolbee (16230)
• United States
6 Nov 09
Hi Anne,
Actually November is one of my favorite months of the year. First of all I have a birthday this month and look forward to this day each year. I enjoy my special day. Thanksgiving is also a special time for me since our youngest daughter and her family fly into see us and spend some time with us. I don't get to see that very often so this is a very special treat. It will be a week of fun and good times especially when I can spend time with the grandkids.
As a child I can remember spending Thanksgiving with our grandparents. It was such a good time. There were many of us in my family so it was a day of laughing and playing. The boys went to a football game and the girls went to see a show. Pretty much the same tradition each year. It was an entire day of fun.
Have a great weekend,
carolbee
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
12 Nov 09
November is an OK month as far as I am concerened. It is the month where it usually starts to get cold around here, but usually we don't get any snow in November so I don't mind. November is a month when my kids get a week off of school and we can go and see a movie together which is always nice. I also really love Thanksgiving and I enjoy cooking for everyone so that is a nother good reason to like November. I have never really had anything really important good or bad happen in November that I can recall it is usually a pretty un-eventful month.
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
6 Nov 09
yeah every november it starts to be cold. but last year we had a quite hot weather during november till december. i have not much thoughts about november or even december. anyways, i really love your story about the elderly you visit each week. i just woke from sleep and i have dreamed of my late grandmother and i was sad in my dream talking to my relatives in a dream and we had this conversation about my grandma.
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
6 Nov 09
Hello Anne...I love that you shared a few of your November memories with us. What a good discussion topic.
November for me as a child meant the first snowfalls of the year, and sometimes the first sledding! It also meant one of my younger brothers birthdays, and each birthday child always got to choose whatever they wished for supper, and would get a gift.
It meant Thanksgiving, then and now, the sharing of the year's blessings, of the big feast, and of family gathering together for food, fun, talk, laughter, and gratitude.
Karen @avnieuwkerk (81)
• Netherlands
6 Nov 09
November is a wonderful month!!! It is a bit of a shame that all of the lovely colors of the autum are coming to an end and the beginning of winter is upon us in december, but overall I think November is super. There are plenty of things to do like getting ready for the holidays and if it's too cold, its time to cuddle up at home and be nice and warm with your loved ones.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
5 Nov 09
Can never forget the fifth of November as it was my mother's birthday. 99 today if she had lived and she nearly made the 100 as she lived to nearly 95. So it was always a dinner that we liked at 6pm before going t the bonfire. The bonfire was normally in the beach and boy, was it cold! We used to roast potatoes in the ashes and eat them with gloves on. Nothing dangerous went on though. I remember that she let us choose the meal that night (yes, I know that it doesn't make sense but she was Irish) and we always chose sausages with baked beans and jacket potatoes or mashed potatoes. Good times but I still hate the cold. Blessings.
I'm sure that I answereed something today but I do not remember who it was
@Anne18 (11029)
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14 Oct 11
Yes 5th of November, we laways go to a large bonfire display at a castle, its very good as the castle is the backdrop to the fireworks, the castle all lights up and there is music playing as well.
When the children were small they used to do a bonfire and fireworks in our town, but health and saftey require too much now so it doesn't run anymore.
Both score 10 out of 10 in our books.
@abbiemaldonado (288)
• United States
6 Nov 09
November well... i used to celebrate the 5th of novmeber on a cold night, now i celebrate thanksgiving during the warm day.
novmeber means the end of halloween and the middle of harvesting time, and almost time for xmas.... i usually try to start buying xmas gifts come novemeber... i dont like to have to last min shopping
@blondexkitty (42)
• United States
5 Nov 09
Bonfires and fireworks? Sounds like Guy Fawkes day, from what this American's read on the Internet. ;) Anyway, the most obvious reason I like November is because that's when my birthday is (11/11 to be exact!). But I like November for other reasons too - the cold, crisp smell in the air, the crunchy and colorful leaves falling all around, and of course my cat getting longer and softer fur! Oh and who can forget about Thanksgiving? Nothing like eating turkey dipped in barbeque sauce and yams slathered in marshmallows! Yummy!
