{"id":1196,"date":"2022-09-15T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2022-09-15T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:13:00","slug":"10-reasons-to-look-forward-to-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/10-reasons-to-look-forward-to-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"10 reasons to look forward to autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Nannyjob we love summer, we really do, but lots of think autumn is our favourite season and here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>1. Conkers. I&#8217;m never going to get over my excitement at finding a shiny brown conker and you can use them for so many things. Throw them, grow them, squash them, smash them. Conkers are great.<\/p>\n<p>2. Dry leaves. One of my favourite things to do is to go for a walk kicking up lots of dry leaves. I hope this year it will stay dry so we can play in them.<\/p>\n<p>3. Preparing for Christmas. I know it&#8217;s September but I love Christmas and it starts at the end of November for me! Christmas crafts, Christmas songs and plotting Christmas presents all make me really happy.<\/p>\n<p>4. Dark evenings. Some people hate them but I like heading home in the dark and coming back to a warm and bright house.<\/p>\n<p>5. Hot chocolate. Finally an excuse to warm up by drinking some hot chocolatey milky goodness whether it&#8217;s out and about or at home. I like to add ginger or cinnamon to mix it up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>6. Pumpkins. I love carving pumpkins ready for Halloween and they taste pretty good too. One of my favourites is pumpkin pie from when I spent a year as an au pair in the US. You don&#8217;t even have to cut up a pumpkin to make it!<\/p>\n<p>7. Cute hats and scarves. I love novelty hats on children and I crochet my charges a new hat every year. They&#8217;re going to be a frog and a bunny so if you see us, wave hello.<\/p>\n<p>8. My Ugg boots. Banished for the summer they can come out from the bottom of the wardrobe. They&#8217;re probably the comfiest thing I&#8217;ve ever owned.<\/p>\n<p>9. Apples. I know what you&#8217;re thinking, all the things so far have been really unhealthy. I even made pumpkin unhealthy! But in season apples are one of my fave foods, especially in a crumble.<\/p>\n<p>10. Fires. At the risk of sounding like\u00a0a pyromaniac I love bonfires. I love seeing the flames, hearing the\u00a0crackling\u00a0and smelling the smoke from a wood fire. Possibly best avoided with children, though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Nannyjob we love summer, we really do, but lots of think autumn is our favourite season and here&rsquo;s why. 1. Conkers. I&rsquo;m never going to get over my excitement at finding a shiny brown conker and you can use them for so many things. Throw them, grow them, squash them, smash them. Conkers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/10-reasons-to-look-forward-to-autumn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 reasons to look forward to autumn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[26,43,332],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nannies","tag-activities","tag-autumn","tag-nannylife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}