To find August( especially mid-August) a sad affair?

Really enjoying the nights drawing in now. I start the dog walk when it's starting to get back and arrive home when the street lights are on 😆
Makes the last cup of tea if the day better somehow.

Another fan of autumn here. I am literally counting down the days until September. I live in a part of the country where the autumn colours are beautiful. No need to go to New England living here.

I love August as a month, but this last week of August always seems a little disconcerting. Some schools are already back but some have got another week or so of the holidays left. It's a weird in between kind of time.
This week was supposed to be hot but the weather has been a little disappointing where we are. I love autumn (my favourite season) but I enjoy late summer and August sunshine knowing the 'ber' months are coming. I feel a bit robbed of the joy this year because summer has been a bit of a washout the last couple of weeks. I don't feel quite ready to embrace autumn but summer is not summering.
I always get a bit nostalgic in August, remembering my childhood summers spent riding bikes, playing with friends and family holidays. It always seemed such a long, lazy month. Nowadays it flies by!

I'm full of something (cough, scratchy throat, snotty nose), lying on sofa in winter pjs and fluffy dressing gown, fire on, wrapped in blanket...trees outside knocked over by last nights storm...In my head we're in the depths of Autumn now!

I think it's definitely worth bearing in mond when booking UK summer breaks. DS is year 1 so never really thought about it before, but our break in the North East at the end of July had a lovely late-spring feel to it whereas our friends who live up there are now having sunshine but with cold winds and dark evenings.

We have been on holiday in north devon for the past week and can certainly sense that summer is on it's way out.
We have had a few hours at the beach each day but the mornings and evenings are chilly.

The nights drawing in are a bit of a wake up call to the end of summer. I saw Christmas things for sale in Halfords of all places the other day!
They rush us through the year

Agree on the nights drawing in quickly… lights on just after 8pm here, or we fall over the dog! Find myself sitting with the DDog (as she’s very fluffy and warm) to watch tv, and DP was heard muttering about how long til the fire is on 😱

There are starting to be “blanket wars” here - whoever sits down first gets the remote and top choice of fluffiest blanket!😀

I was looking at the leaves at the weekend - in just 1 week, there’s such a difference… looking dry and crispy now and have a sort of “worn-out” appearance, other trees are starting to change colour.

I quite like it, Summer has been poor anyway, so might as well embrace the new season!

I like August...I always try to coincide my visits to Italy in the summer to include 15th August which is the biggest bank holiday in Italy (I'm there right now)

August in the UK isn't as fun because it's usually started raining a lot by then...June and July are the best summer months in the UK imo. Its a shame the schools break up so late.

Yes the sun is setting at just after 8pm now, I turned the lights on at quarter to nine last night and it was already dark. There's no gentle sunsetting it just gets dark really quickly, all of a sudden I'm sat in the dark.

And it's dark at 5am when I get up to let the cat out.

It's starting to feel like early autumn which I suppose it will be in a week.

Live Action Role Playing

Essentially, they are re-enactors but I was reading about one of the groups at a local joust we visited recently, and they call themselves a Medieval Fighting Team.

I’d usually agree but this has been a lovely warm, sunny August (although grey today atm). I think
because the nice weather started late it feels different this year.

I’m off work this week and away on holiday next week (uk one). The nights drawing in are becoming very noticeable though.

I’ve been thinking of this thread all day OP! Autumn seems to have arrived here in NI - rainy, stormy weather, dusk at 8pm and leaves already falling off the trees.

So depressing considering we haven’t even had a summer this year 😞

Wow.
Love Autumn and Winter, get depressed with
Spring (since childhood).
March is really a month where I have to keep it together. ☹️🤔

I always feel like this.

Im one of the underground movement who really enjoys having the kids at home over summer.

End of summer always feels like that song in Mamma Mia where she sings about time "slipping through my fingers all the time ". 😥

Oh stop being mean you lot!

Agree, what a load of utter twaddle

That's a perfectly normal response to them, tbh.

Sorry if I'm thick, I don't understand LARPers, and even less so after googling

Me too. Bloody love autumn and you have a point; fewer LARPers at large.

You’re right! Fewer bees too.

It’s very dry here dry here (Suffolk) - leaves are falling already.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

‘Jasmin’ 😂
I can see it now, @GoTigers in his mum’s conservatory watching the next door neighbour’s warm skin by the open french doors!

You sound ridiculous and embarrassing

When working I always felt depressed after the August bank holiday. Thinking "that's it now until Christmas". .