To say this weather is causing me to become depressed

I am so very grateful to live in a thatch at the moment, beautifully cool in here and we are loving the weather as when it gets too much we can retreat inside.

I am dreading going back to a crappy modern house. Sigh.

Did you do GCSE or O Level science? If you did you'll have enough scientific understanding to understand what is meant when people refer to 'climate change'.

Average temperatures have risen. It's pretty easy to understand.

If you're a climate change denier, no one will change your mind. If you're not, just read a basic article on the BBC bitesize pages which will explain.

Sorry I know it isn’t funny and it was incredibly rude but just wasn’t expecting to read it as a reply to a perfectly reasonable post so it caught me off guard and made me laugh!

I understand the tiredness, but I think you're choosing the wrong activities.

we came in from a day at a national trust place; everyone is boiling hot, thirsty and the sun is burning down.

Don't go for big days out when it's hot. Why are you doing that to yourself?!

Put the kids in a tepid bath with loads of bubbles while you sit on a stool.

Have a carpet picnic with a fan on.

Set up some shade in the garden and get some water play out there.

Set up some basic drawing in the coolest room in your house.

Watch a film with ice lollies.

You can go to the park at 9am or 5pm if they need a run.

It’s infinitely better than it being cold and raining and dark and 5pm - now THAT is depressing!!

I think it’s just cos it was so random

We have always had spells of hot weather, especially in the South. Look up the summer of 1976 for one, and the summers of the early 1990’s, too.

Yes, but we are very clearly having more, and longer, heatwaves. Multiple periods of several days where the temperature stays above 30 is not normal for the UK (or it didn’t used to be). I don’t know why people are so invested in pretending climate change isn’t happening.

In response to the OP - I’m right there with you. I’m in London and it’s unbearable at the moment.

@verycloakanddaggers

but we always have had warm weather though. I remember lots of warm days in summer when I was a kid in the 90s.

Climate change is real, and pretending nothing has changed is climate denial.

There have always been summers hotter than the average. The point is the average is rising.

Very luckily we've not had weather that warm

Don't think you've mentioned 3d where you're staying.

But it may be worth researching moving if you're finding it so difficult.

It is the summer. Warm weather is normal in summer.

Look there’s lots of advatanges- don’t have to pay for heating, lower electricity bills, it’s not dark when we get up for work and dark when we get home from work, all the plants and flowers are in bloom!

What was it?! I didn't see the comment.

We have always had spells of hot weather, especially in the South. Look up the summer of 1976 for one, and the summers of the early 1990’s, too.

I'm completely with you, OP! My absolute least favourite season. I'm just not built for it! Never was.

Spring? Lovely
Autumn? Lovely
Winter? Fine, though a bit too long.
Summer? Skip, skip, skip!

Yes, that felt like peak Mumsnet, giving those silly dead people a jolly good talking to! It's probably just their anxiety making them think they're dead. Besides, everyone knows when the grim reaper comes calling you simply refuse to answer the door and give him a hard stare through the window.

Anyway op, I am another one in south Wales who has opened the curtains to a grey sky and drizzle yet again. I was feeling a bit miserable about it until I read your post. I always struggle in the heat too so god knows why I'm wishing a heat wave on myself! You'll probably just start acclimatising and the weather will break ..

I agree, OP, I'm in peri and sweating to the point that it's embarrassing.
You'll get piled on, no doubt, so I just wanted to send solidarity.
I do love summer but we dont get normal heat, it's always humid which makes it very uncomfortable.

I’m not a fan of too much heat either but we’re in an area that’s seeing the peak of the heat and with fans on and windows open, the bedrooms are cool overnight. We’ve slept fine.
Have a quick cool body shower before bed.
We have the fan linked above in our living room and a small one in our kitchen and it’s been bearable.

Plus older people, some heavily pregnant, young babies, people with other illnesses.

Just because one person manages heat ok doesn't mean everyone does. They don't put out a health warning for the fun of it

Weather is probably exacerbating all the other stuff in your life that is depressing op?

There’s a perfect climate waiting for you in West Wales OP, with clean air to breathe and noticeably far fewer flies.

So we know mum's net moderation starts at 8.30 😂 love the mass email response.

Anyway, op, I have an old black labrador. The stress of looking after her in the heat is awful. I am totally with you.

Why people pay to go abroad for hot weather (even before these heat waves) is beyond me.

West coast of Scotland have wee beasties. Can't fend them off with a fan or air con!

ETA I’m loving the pp who doesn’t believe in excess heat-related deaths, that’s those silly dead people told 😂

Absolutely! 🙄 What do scientists know anyway? 😬