Confused and bewildered!

Maybe I'm beginning to lose it, I just can't make up my mind. The thing is, I really don't know what time of the year it is because there are so many confusing signs so now I'm completely lost!
To start with, a few weeks ago I bought some spring bedding plants, wallflowers, polyanthus and daisies. The wallflowers are OK but the polyanthus and daisies have burst into flower as though it was spring. I have also noticed little green shoots on the honeysuckle and roses that I pruned at the same time that I put the bedding plants in.
There are also some other plants still flowering, the dianthus are all having another go while the michaelmas daisies are just coming to the end of their flowering time.
Today when I went into town I was shocked to see that the council have already put up the Christmas lights but there were people walking about in short sleeved and sleevless tops. I haven't turned the heaters on yet but the weather forecast for tonight says that the temperature is going to drop right down and there is also a chance of ground frost even in towns and cities. Perhaps that will help the leaves to fall from the trees because they haven't come down yet whereas when I was younger, the trees were bare by mid-October..
I can remember too, not that many years ago most people and businesses alike all turned on the central heating on the first of October even if we had a cold September then it was turned off on the first of April. Today we don't need the heating until almost the end of October and mine usually goes off at the start of March.
Somehow I can't decide whether it's me or the seasons that are out of kilter!