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[taimatsu]

La la la, hormone-induced weird mood!

I went shopping. I bought CHOCOLATE. Oh, and fruit juice and satsumas and apples and tomatoes and pork chops and pasta sauce and bread and scotch pancakes and a magazine (with a free scarf!) and scissors and string and a nice big towel (with no holes in!) and pizzas and MSG-laden frozen stirfries and an onion and All Sorts Of Nice Things. Mmmmmm.

Now I am eating satsumas and thinking about autumn festivals. Are there notable autumn festivals which aren't the Chinese/SE Asian ones? (That's happening about now or just recently, and it's all I'm coming up with online.)

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[diffrentcolours]

Samhain / Halloween?

[taimatsu]

Of course :D Thank you!

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

The Feast of St Michael and All Angels (Michaelmas) - 30 September.
All Saints Day - 1 November
All Souls Day - 2 November

[omentide.livejournal.com]

It may have already been, but Succhus. Where you sit in a decorated hut in the garden and eat loads of fruit and sniff lemons.

[nevecat.livejournal.com]

Non-religious, there's of course Guy Fawkes (5th Nov) and for Londoners there's the Lord Mayor's Parade (11th Nov, I think?)

Jewish New Year was 15th September-ish, and Ramadan begins October 16th, with the end-of-ramadan celebrations afterwards (Lailat Ul Qadr (Night of Power): November 10
Eid-Al-Fitr (Celebrating the Fast): November 14, according to http://www.holidays.net/ramadan/dates.htm ) - so, nope, not just asian festivals!

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Samhain (which isn't the same thing at all as the Christian All Hallow's, or the commercial invention of Halloween) ....

[libellum.livejournal.com]

oh, and of course, there's Harvest Festival :)