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

Mid-late August is the Sunday teatime of the year. The ultimate ‘school tomorrow’ feeling.

I hate summer, hate having to mow the lawn constantly, hate the hot, humid weather we get where I live. By the time August comes around I find myself looking forward to September. Autumn is my favourite month. Where I live the autumn colours are so amazing, who needs to go to New England?

We have loads. There’s a nest outside DD’s room 😬

I love it - it's still summer! There is more summer to come! I don't think summer is over until late September.

It is a bit sad, though, with night falling earlier, and the greenery looking a bit past its best.

I feel melancholy because there are still two whole weeks until schools go back. Teen kids are fed up now and need to get back to routine - I always find the ‘back to school’ feeling delicious. I love a few weeks of hols but after that it drags. The esrly
autimn feeling in the mornings now gives me a real thrill

I’m so sorry about your losses. I also have a particular summer month where I lost a few close people and it is forever tainted for me. All the faux summer positivity makes it worse for me.

Fall has grown on me over the years and I love how it seems in the us! I try to make a bigger thing of pumpkin picking, beautiful autumn leaves and walks and lots of warm, festive drinks.

Ha! I was about to say - I'd rather I saw less of some of the hot (and unwashed) summer stinky bodies in a market town Asda this lunchtime.

The tea-time of the soul.

Have wasps here in the SE. I love this time of the year - everywhere is empty, loads of blackberries and sloes to pick in my fields and when everyone is back I'm off on holiday!

I was just thinking this evening how much earlier it was getting dark. I hate it. I'm in the NE and we haven't really had much of a summer so the thought of all these cold miserable dark damp days is quite depressing.

We don't even get a proper cold crisp winter with snow any more. It's just damp, wet and dark from October to May.

I so much prefer spring when all the lambs appear and the greenery starts to come out again.

Well I've really cheered myself up now.😁

I love mid to late August. In the mornings and evenings there is a hint of autumn in the air (I love autumn), the nights start to draw in and we are well into the rhythm of a slower pace of life with no school run. Although by this point I am almost looking forward to getting back into the school time schedule, so I also don't feel sad about the new school year looming. I love going to the shops with DC to get their new school stuff, it reminds me of doing that with my lovely late mum when I was a child.

Agree, I've really struggled today, it has been cold, it got dark early and I just feel really sad.

@rewilded thankyou for starting this thread! Seems there's lots of us - I was honestly starting to think I was going a bit mad.

You may soon get your wish about wasps, but it will really not be the nirvana we might imagine.
Wasps are key to ensuring so many other bugs are kept at bay, and the loss of any species from the ecosystem has a catastrophic effect. We should be very careful what we wish for.😥

I like it, don't find it depressing.

I found my tribe! Yes end if August feels like the end of a party that peaked hours ago and everyone should just eff off home but we're trying to keep the fun going.
When ever I see blackberries I get a weird depressed feeling (even though I love them) because I know it means sumner is over and winter is looming. V much a sinking Sunday evening feel as someone else said.

I could live very happily in a world without wasps.

The few that I've seen have been very small - I'm putting raisins out for them as they enjoy those. They also love my fennel plant.

Reading this makes me realise I haven't swum once in the sea this year for similar reasons. Sad.

Same! 30th August here. It's my 40th this month and I've no friends anymore 😢 So I'll be spending it alone. Not looking forward to it at all. Might buy some sleeping aid pills and try sleep through it all.

I hate August, it's my least favourite month. I even prefer January to August.
I'm always too hot, I sweat in the daytime and can't sleep at night.
Everything is too dry.
All of the hobbies I do have stopped because it's school holidays, even though they are nothing to do with school or kids.
I can't get anything done at work because everyone is on holiday.
Can't meet up with friends because they are either on holiday or home with their kids.
Wasps and flies everywhere! And spiders are preparing to invade.
Urgh

Do what?!?

The nights are fair drawing in, as my wee mammy used to say. 😟

@renthead August improves no end when you're a retired teacher. I know that mid August feeling very well.

@GoTigers Spoken like a true size 8, I don't doubt?!

Doesn't really apply to those of us browsing the plus size section. Our straps fall off our shoulders and people scowl.