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

Yes I've noticed too, also flies?

It is around mid August that I start to feel happier, knowing that autumn is just around the corner, I really look forward to it.

Not getting this at all, baking hot all day here in the south east, has been all week, but with nice cool evenings, forecast is the same next week.

still two weeks of the holidays left and I’ve got the last week off which I will spend pootling about with the DC getting things ready for school and we’ve got some theatre tickets booked etc.

I work in a fast paced role in the city and things are much quieter. I love this time of year! Kids are a bit feral though 😂

August always feels a bit melancholy and out of routine, I now actually enjoy September more, apart from feeling sad about the nights drawing in.
May and June are usually the best but not this year 😰

I find August peculiar as I spend half of it desperate to get back to the routine and structure of school / work and the other half relishing the freedom and the lack of demands (being up at 6.30am everyday, clubs, hobbies all stop for summer etc)

I feel sad but also glad about the darker evenings / more autumnal weather. Although we're set for a warm end to August here.

It's very strange. No other month makes me feel this way.

I have a real love / hate relationship with August.

"PFB" is due to start secondary school in a few weeks and I'm definitely feeling the "August Angst' this year.

Although I have a very, very strong memory of being in a park with DC1 and DC2 (both very young) in very late August 2017 and feeling a shift in the air. I actually felt a perceptible shift as summer became autumn. Was very bizarre but one of those rare 'feeling at one with the universe' moments. I'll never forget it.

I always think autumn starts in mid August. The garden has gone over and the evenings are shorter but still muggy. It's also the time when I get bitten. Last night a large fly kept landing on me and I ended up with itchy red bites on my legs. It just wouldn't leave me alone and I had to go into another room to escape it. I'm having to wear insect repellant in my living room.

Accidentally hit the wrong choice - I said that YABU when I very much think that YANBU!! Had to make a comment to correct! I wish we had the same school holidays as Scotland, breaking up in June & back in mid August, because summer fades so fast in late August and it’s always depressing. I also wish that we’d stay on BST all year because I hate the dark evenings.

I get a weird feeling too OP. A kind of melancholy.
But I do love autumn once the leaves start turning, big warm jumpers, boots, wood fires, comfort food, starting to think about Christmas. Staying in more, doing more baking.

Yea totally this. I saw a meme thing the other day and it said August was the Sunday of months...and it really is.
I always hated back to school as a child and the theme tune to Antiques Roadshow still signifies the end of your own time and back to school or work.
August and Sunday feeling are awful 😖

In my early twenties I used to spend every weekend at my cousin's place,she'd give me a lift home on Sunday night and the same three songs would always be on the car radio.
I still shudder when I hear them.

I almost posted a similar thread!

I detest August. Weather is either pants or hot, sticky and humid.

Making plans difficult as everyone away. Appointments the same.

Very little gets done at work as colleagues and clients are off.

Kids out of routine.

For me it's a 'nothing' month and I count down the days until September, which brings an air of 'new term' anticipation for me

I am definitely still waiting from a fashion point of view. I was a bit bewildered when I realised that I need to put most of my summer stuff back in the vaccum bags unworn in a couple of weeks, and that I actually did need jeans and longer dresses on for most of the summer.

I agree, especially this year. I feel like I kept waiting for summer to arrive and apart from the odd v. hot days I don't feel like it really got going.

The sun sits differently in the sky and the light is different as September comes and then before we know it Halloween, fireworks and countdown to Christmas.

I get it too, I work from home but I still get the Sunday night blues when I hear the Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow theme tunes. I'm kind of glad they moved Songs of Praise to the afternoon because that tune really reminds me of school (which I loathed).

Yep. 100%.

I think for me as well it is the feeling of your own mortality, another summer gone just like all the others before.

I get this feeling on Boxing Day too.

Snap happy birthday to us 😁😁

I think it's just a hangover from my schooldays,I absolutely hated school.

Congrats on the grandbaby :) I love your username, the book is one of my favourites.

Do you need to change career? When I found a job where I stopped getting that it was the most wonderful thing.

I loathe August and always have.
Garden is going over and looks rubbish and I can't be bothered to battle slugs anymore.
Weather is never as good as it should be, usually muggy and grey.
School holidays are beginning to feel too long and expensive.
Work is harder as lots of people on leave
Just a generally rubbish month.

I love September with its feeling of new beginnings but August is my least favourite of all the months

The harvest is going full pelt here and I just love it

I get this every Sunday night.

I agree but I hate September more! No idea why it just really annoys me! 🙈

I used to love walking my GS at dusk and breaking dawn. He had aggression issues and I worked nights, so we were a good match. There's something magical about the world quietening down, or waking up (when we had a good population of birds and wildlife). I'm looking forward to my GC going back to school and Autumn/Halloween/the C word.