Anyone else had a rubbish school holidays?

Quote from one of your links, when the summer holidays started

Temperatures increased in the third week of July, with temperatures in the upper 20s across southeast England, reaching the 30s in some areas. Heathrow and Kew Gardens (Greater London) both saw 32.0°C on the 30th, the highest temperature of the year so far. The temperature remained above average to the end of the month, and felt occasionally muggy especially in the southeast.

South east or South West?

Well these are from 15th July/ today and Scotland. Our summer holidays have been pretty nice, sorry 🤷‍♀️

I live as far south as you can get, and it's been cool and cloudy here all summer.

I'm aghast at how different people's perceptions can be.

Yep. Was in tears a week in!

Northerner here and the weather was shocking throughout. Awful. Gardens wrecked, fallen trees, cold, floods, heating on weather.
We had 1 precious week visiting relatives thankfully.

This is probably the worst summer holiday I’ve had since having children. I have quite large age gaps 14, 8 & 3 & it’s so hard to do something they all want to do 90% of what I suggest my eldest isn’t interested in, everything is so crazy expensive. I went to book tickets to the Aquarium as youngest has never been & my 8 year old loves sharks.. Family of 5 the tickets were just shy of £200?! Even doing the cinema cost us over £50 once we bought popcorn ect & I wouldn’t mind taking our own bits but the kids find getting their cinema treats exciting.

I’ve booked a holiday for abroad next year instead.

July was a bit wet but I don't class most of that as the summer holidays! We didn't break up until the 24th and then we immediately went to NE England for a week which was 24 and sunny.

https://www.yourweather.co.uk/news/forecasts/the-uk-weather-outlook-for-august-2024-how-long-will-the-hot-weather-last.html

This points out the end of July was warm and the weather was expected to continue in the mid/south of England.

I do think the South Coast had anomalous weather. DS went to Weymouth and it was 5 degrees colder with rain.

We've had insanely hot days, interspersed with lots of rain. Last weekend we went to a music festival and it was like the apocalypse with the rain, then this weekend blazing hot sunshine which was crazy..I got back off a tenerife holiday on 30th July and it was hotter here than in tenerife!!

OP, I promise it's gets better. I had 3 under the age of 4 and I remember how relentless the holidays were. I just tried to be kind to myself, muted social media of all the "making memories" twats and just tried to survive.

Mine are all tweens/teens now, I never see them now. I work full time and they go days without seeing me and don't even care 😆

We’ve spent 6 months with my DD in 1st position on the waiting list for her chosen secondary school where all of her friends are going. She’s been assigned an abysmal school that is 5 times further away and nearly an hour on public transport. School starts tomorrow and she’s still not got a place. It’s been a long summer waiting to see if there was any good news today when the school office opened but nope.

It has been shit. Admittedly the first few weeks were ok, but then ds (10 asd) really started to struggle without the school routine and has made every day a nightmare for his siblings. I have had to spend so much time trying to regulate him that the others have been ignored for large periods of time. And trying to get anything done around the house has been basically impossible. And now we have the adjustment of getting back to school to contend with.

Eldest brought threadworms home the last week of term, we all got them, its taken 6 weeks to sort out. The End.

that really puts everything in perspective - I am lucky to have made it through the summer without such devastating loss.

ME!!!
DD dumped just before A levels didn’t make grades and lost university place
Lost 2.5 k when we were supposed to go on holiday on the day the world stopped because of the computer glitch
Had to put one of our cats down
Fell out with my in laws
My car broke down
Got COVID
and the weather has wrecked my garden
It has been a trying few weeks to say the least so lets hope for a happy September :)

Was going to say this too. We’ve had a sunny summer holidays where I am (South England).

I’m so laughing at the living room purgatory!! Bloody Blippi will be playing on the tv and I will be constantly searching for the remote to turn it off. There will be snacks half eaten everywhere- you will tread in crunched up pombears and breadsticks. Toys will be scattered- from about 10 different activities. Paint sticks without lids. Stickers not stuck on properly and lined up wrong. Potty with a wee in it. Crying baby as the toddler tries to attack them.

I’m in Southport. This has been the most horrific, gut wrenching, tragic holidays for everyone

Well, the first two weeks were hot and filled with cro-magnons (wouldn't give them the credit of reaching Neanderthal levels of intellect) smashing shit up and generally ruining the only guaranteed full week off work I had, DP's employers forced him to WFH one week because it suited them when I had already agreed to work, then permitted him to take 5 days of the 15 he had outstanding because it didn't suit them to let him take them earlier, but refused to let him take the remainder because 'we need somebody here' to work completely by himself whilst they were all on holiday/didn't bother recruiting for a replacement for the person who left, so he's lost 10 days of annual leave due to it being year end.

On top of that, it's been stiflingly hot and dull when not blazing & too hot, the rain completely failed to clear the air at all and I've been fielding barked instructions to do stuff outside my role all summer, all demanding that I do Not My Job for them as though they're the only priority in the world.

Oh, and I got up this morning to find that DP had decided to put my new clothes into a wash at 6am - except for the two brand new cotton shirts I'd bought, which he has apparently baked until crispy and have to be soaked again in the hope that the creases come out and haven't been shrunk three sizes in the process. So I did a shit day in shit stuffy weather with hot flushes (as the GP has fucked up and lost the HRT prescription and now doesn't want to re-prescribe) in a nylon shirt I'd earmarked for the bin.

It makes me laugh when people say to wear a coat and wellies and go out in the rain anyway. It’s miserable, a shitty wet walk and then dragging muddy water in the house after and having to clean it all up and then clean the clothes and then everyone’s bodies. No fucking way.

We've only had 3 days this summer that I haven't got the washing dried, so weather wise it's been fine (Midlands). Apart from the weather though it's been rubbish! An expensive roof repair meant we've had no holiday and haven't done anything really other than visit parks and play at home. The 3 and 11 year old have argued constantly, about absolutely everything from the TV to their respective noise levels. It's been the first summer in 20 years of parenting that I haven't loved, previously I've always been sad when summer ends and everyone heads back.

Yes there have been some awful days, but there have been plenty of lovely days - and we are in the North! We have had mainly outside days and yes it wasn't 30 degrees but still nice sunny dry days. We will be restarting school with sun tans from scotland last week.

What?? 4-5 says of hot weather, and spread out! The evenings have been cool, fan out twice this whole summer, It's been ok as in not constantly raining here but the grass this year is very green and not as dry or brown as some other years, not the worst summer but not mostly hot lol. My cardi has been out a lot more this year. We are all living in parallel universes!! Lol