How do you know that summer (vacation) is half over?

• "Building vacation" is over
• Even more road works starting up...blocking now my workaround road to work which I had to take in order to avoid traffic works. Now I make an even bigger detour. There goes the advantage of 'no traffic jams' up in smoke.
• More cars on the parking lot at work
• Some trees are turning already!!
• I'm getting used to the summer tv programs and I stopped being irritated by the endless yearly reruns of everything.
• I don't come home anymore thinking "oh I don't have to go to choir/yoga/.."
• The most interesting festivals are over
• Days are getting shorter again
• Promotion folders in the mail talk about "back to school"
• There are for once no politics in the news...those guys are all taking a break. Fantastic.
• Dutch caravans don't only drive south on our highways but also drive north (with very tanned people in them)
• The supermarkets don't sell strawberries anymore