An Indian Summer

 

With summer over and autumn officially begun, I‘m hoping for a few more days of sunshine. And in a moment of reflection, I wondered how the concept of an “Indian Summer” originated. So, a spot of Googling later and I was a little better informed. It seems that although the exact origins of the term are unclear, Native Americans (Indians) may have used it in reference to the warm and hazy conditions in early autumn when they hunted. But equally surprising was the suggestion that it only came into common use in Britain during the 1950s. I didn’t know that!