The umbrellas are already out, but they're useless if it's windy. Photograph: Rex Features
1 Women in tights
Legs that, just a
week ago, were bronzed and bare – or pale and goose-pimpled – are
disappearing, swathed in 40-denier opaques. But look on the bright side:
tights are a godsend if, like me, you needed weeks to pluck up the
courage to get your legs out in the first place.
2 Rows over whether it's too early to put the heating on
He's feeling the chill, so reaches for the thermostat; she points out that he's only wearing a T-shirt.
3 Umbrellas
Oh,
for the gaily striped beach parasol under which you sipped piña coladas
from coconuts just one short month ago! Now, you need a portable
shelter from the ravages of rain and wind: though a combination of the
two, particularly prevalent right now, renders the flimsy thing
totally useless.
4 Putting away your summer clothes
Farewell
the playsuits and spaghetti-strap maxidresses of summer. All hail the
mothballed cardigans and bobbly jumpers of winter.
5 Loads of good stuff on the telly
Mad
Men, This is England '86, The Inbetweeners, a fab new period drama on
ITV with Maggie Smith: now there are plenty of reasons to scurry
straight home from work.
6 Comfort food
Salads,
shmalads: suddenly you have a craving for something hot, satisfying and
probably heart-stoppingly calorific. At least you don't have to put
your swimsuit back on for another year.
7 Locking the door to your garden and realising you probably won't open it again for six months
The
green-fingered may shudder, but the rest of us have found that sausage
dog-shaped draught excluder and welded it to the bottom of the back
door.
8 The reappearance of boots, and the disappearance of sandals
No
more will your gold-painted toenails peep out fetchingly from your
gladiators: it's time for the return of the knee-high boot. Or the ankle
boot, or the open-toed shoe-boot (shoot?).
9 Putting the sun cream to the back of the cupboard
Away
with you, half-empty bottle of Ambre Solaire Factor 30, with your smell
of sunshine and freedom, to gather dust behind the mouthwash and
Bonjela.
10 The influx of wildlife into your home
One
minute you're swatting summer wasps, the next you're doing battle with
an invasion of house-mice, spiders and other creepy-crawlies. Call in
pest control, or take pity on them for just trying to keep warm: the
choice is yours.
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