Whereabouts – I like that word.
What are your whereabouts? Or what were they in the past?
This picture is from an autumn day a few weeks ago, in downtown Helsinki, my current wherabouts.

Close enough, anyway: I’m typing this from another spot downtown, indoors. Today, the sun is shining but the colorful leaves are long gone.
My whereabouts are right here, right now, somewhere between autumn and winter. If you look at the weather, it’s winter, but people who like observing dates in the calendar will say it’s still autumn.

Proof of this is an email I received at work this week, sent by a young girl in Communications. In response to an earlier email of mine, she told me in a dry, matter-of-fact tone that “Autumn months are September, October, and November.”
There you go, now I know. Silly me for thinking sleet, frosty mornings of zero degrees, leafless trees, and switching our clocks to winter time were any indicators of winter.
We crossed over to standard time from daylight saving time last weekend. Apparently its timing varies slightly from country to country: I only learned this last spring whilst browsing American blogs here on WordPress! You learn something new every day – if you are open to it.

But this post isn’t really about seasons changing. The theme for Friendly Friday this week is Whereabouts.
Whenever I hear that word, I think of someone lounging on a yacht somewhere beautiful, unsure of their exact whereabouts and not minding at all. Mischievous and fleeing reality, not answering the phone when people try to get in touch.

That’s a perfect little dream for the start of winter for someone like me who grew up in the subtropics and misses time spent outdoors, the colors and scents of flowers, birds singing in the trees, and seeing the sky… With the leaves gone, this city is becoming grey again, and new colors won’t emerge until next May.
So, join in and share some pictures of your current whereabouts, wherever you are, and let’s travel in our minds. And let’s be friendly to one another.
Also, Friendly Friday welcomes Manja, who is joining me as host for the month of November, while Amanda concentrates on moving into her beautiful new seaside home. Be sure to follow Manja’s blog so you don’t miss next week’s prompt!
Please join in:
- Create a post responding to the theme
- Link that post to this one
- Add a comment at the end of this post, introducing your take on the theme – this makes it more tempting for others to click on your link!
- Check out some of the other entries
- There is no deadline
77 replies on “Friendly Friday: Whereabouts”
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Yikes! 😊
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[…] whereabouts that day were unmarked and unnamed back […]
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We’re just starting wintery days this week in southern Italy, it’s very late this year.
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Hey, I just found your comment in my spam, so I’m sorry for the delayed reply! You were talking about the weather in Italy two weeks ago – and now I’ve heard all about the floods 😦 Hope you’re surviving! 🙂
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Yes, nothing to report of flooding here in Cosenza, so that’s a good thing. 🙂
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And. no problem about the delayed reply, I have comments going in Spam and Trash every day. Sometimes I forget to check before deleting and hope I don’t delete ‘real’ comments. 😦
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Love those fall colors. Not much of those here in the desert: https://noheelsjustsneakers.com/2019/11/06/pretty-clouds-and-hearts/
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Your desert pics look unreal!
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Aah, what beautiful photos – those colours 🙂 I agree, winter is definitely here now, it’s cold, damp and dark – can’t wait for spring!!
I’ve had a bit of a blogging break, but am really happy to be back and taking part in this challenge again. It was one of my first stops 🙂
Here is my entry, it’s not my current whereabouts, but of somewhere that I visited around this time of year a long time ago! It bought back lots of memories.
http://mydustyflipflops.com/2019/11/07/whereabouts-maya-bay-thailand/
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Aww, I’m flattered it was one of your fist stops, I’m so happy to have you back! Though a blogging break is a good thing too. Over here, it snowed today! In my book, that means winter, no matter what all the calendar followers say! 😀
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Thank you so much, it’s good to be back! Snow?? Yes, I totally agree, that is definitely a winter event!! No snow here yet, although it’s sooo cold, no matter how many layers I put on I just can’t seem to warm up!
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Luckily Xmas is coming… but after that, I’m ready for spring! 😀 Yes, Snow is the name I go by on the blog – and I’m not sure I ever did catch your name? Though I remember our chats – you had a similar childhood growing up somewhere warm, didn’t you?
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Haha, I’m the same, I like Christmas and all the build up, but then Jan-Mar just kill me! Thankfully we’ve escaped in Feb/Mar the past few years which has broken that period up nicely and made it a lot easier. I’m going by the name of Dusty on here – nice to meet you Snow 🙂 Yes, I grew up in Bahrain, MUCH warmer than the UK will ever be! Whereabouts were you? Was it Australia or am I misremembering that?
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Yes, Brisbane, correct! Have you written about Bahrain?
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I haven’t really but I might do one day. I would like to dig out some of our old photos to share, as always it’s just getting round to it!
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And nice to meet you too, Dusty
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well in Australia… where I am not right now (I’m in Uzbekistan) daylight savings starts in October and goes to April. Unless youre in Queensland where they dont have it at all!
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😊 What about Uzbekistan, winter and dark there now?
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