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smileymylie25 · 2025-09-08T12:07:17+00:00

Just that really. Am I the only one sick of the heat and the sunshine now? I just want to put my leggings and jumpers on and get my boots out! Absolutely love a dark evening with the lamp and candles on snuggled under a blanket.

Mutability · 08/09/2025 15:21

We’re having a week up north. It’s fricking freezing. I can’t wait to get back down south.

cardibach · 08/09/2025 15:20

Nourishinghandcream · 08/09/2025 13:48

With you OP.👍

Love the cooler, misty mornings whereas recently it has been too warm to sit out even with my morning cuppa!

It was 18 when I went out at just after 9 this morning. Presumably your morning cuppa is earlier that this? How is that too warm to sit in? That’s my heating coming on temp indoors - and I need multiple layers to sit still in it.

Delatron · 08/09/2025 15:19

smileymylie25 · 08/09/2025 13:53

Yea I do like to snuggle under a blanket with my children, is that ok? Sorry I didn’t realise I’d used such an insulting word.

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It’s such an awful word. It reminds me of being ill. Why on earth would you want to ‘snuggle’ under a blanket. I’d rather be out and about in the lovely sunshine.

I like to call it ‘festering under a blanket’ which people on Mumsnet seem to like to do for about 6 months solid. I always wonder how they find the time and why it is such a coveted activity.

noidea69 · 08/09/2025 15:19

God no, give it a couple of weeks and all the "just want to put my jumper on" people will be out in force complaining about how dark it is & how its pissing down with rain.

and they wont have gone on any of the walks they claimed they were going to go on.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 08/09/2025 15:17

It’s about 20C and sunny with a breeze where I am. Perfect!

placemats · 08/09/2025 15:13

I do love that perennial plants shut down over winter as well as some animals. They get cosy deep within the soil and their nests. If it's a particularly harsh winter lots of the flora and fauna won't survive.

We can as humans if we are able to afford heating and food. But alerts are sent out to always check on neighbours during extremes, whether heatwaves or freezing temperatures. Some people cannot afford to put the heating on.

Always get your boiler checked and serviced before winter sets in. And do take care of your nearest and dearest.

I love a snowy winter scene it defines the seasons. However being snowed in is quite different and could be dangerous for some.

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smileymylie25 · 08/09/2025 15:02

BitOutOfPractice · 08/09/2025 14:59

“Yea I do like to snuggle under a blanket with my children, is that ok? Sorry I didn’t realise I’d used such an insulting word.“

I think it was the pa apology, and the fact that you’ve taken my dislike of the word “snuggle” as a personal criticism and responded with sarcasm and defensiveness. In a nutshell.

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How is any of that sarcastic? You have a bee in your bonnet now please stop acting like a child and move along.

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user9064385631 · 08/09/2025 15:01

Yes yabu. I hate the dark and the cold, and have immense middle aged joy at hanging the washing outside.
When we retire i intend spending a good part of the winter somewhere warm, not roasting hot, but not grey and wet uk winters!

Catpiece · 08/09/2025 15:00

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 08/09/2025 15:00

I’m perimenopausal and prone to feeling hot at the moment.

But I’m not going to argue any more about these words as it’s getting a bit silly now

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I agree x

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 08/09/2025 15:00

Catpiece · 08/09/2025 14:56

If you’re someone who isn’t keen on the sun it’s beating down. Fed up with it now.

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I’m perimenopausal and prone to feeling hot at the moment.

But I’m not going to argue any more about these words as it’s getting a bit silly now

BitOutOfPractice · 08/09/2025 14:59

smileymylie25 · 08/09/2025 14:53

So because I don’t agree with you I’m touchy? Ermmm ok. Have a nice afternoon.

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“Yea I do like to snuggle under a blanket with my children, is that ok? Sorry I didn’t realise I’d used such an insulting word.“

I think it was the pa apology, and the fact that you’ve taken my dislike of the word “snuggle” as a personal criticism and responded with sarcasm and defensiveness. In a nutshell.

beasmithwentworth · 08/09/2025 14:59

I’m in south london and it’s definitively not beating down. It’s ‘out’ and pleasant enough but no more than that.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 08/09/2025 14:58

InMyShowgirlEra · 08/09/2025 14:52

You must live in a different country to me. We've had a few nice days, enough to notice it's been summer, and frequent rain as usual. We're now bracing ourselves for 6 months of constant rain and darkness, and wet blankets hanging on door frames because they can't be dried outdoors and take days to dry indoors and the only other option is not to wash them all winter. Covering up in a million layers only to end up carrying them around because it's warm in all the shops and cold outside so you're constantly dressing and undressing.

Why do shops etc do this? Jack up the heating in the winter when everyone has a coat on, and then freeze everyone with the aircon in summer when everyone is in t shirts?

I’m not saying it should be the same temperature as outside but it shouldn’t be so far away from it that your clothes are all wrong.

Catpiece · 08/09/2025 14:56

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 08/09/2025 14:55

I’m looking out of the window and yes it’s quite sunny but could never be described as “beating down” by any definition. It’s not even warm in the sense that you’d feel the warmth of it on your skin, it’s just not cold.

I don’t mean to be pedantic or keep coming back to this definition but it’s just not.

I walked down to the shops just now and it was pleasant at most.

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If you’re someone who isn’t keen on the sun it’s beating down. Fed up with it now.

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smileymylie25 · 08/09/2025 14:56

beasmithwentworth · 08/09/2025 14:55

Goodness absolutely not. I love the feeling of summer and get quite down this time of year and what comes afterwards. Dark mornings, the cold. No thanks. You can keep your snuggling, blankets, hot chocolate and autumn leaves. I can appreciate them objectively but I am summer (and late spring) through and through.

I hate hot chocolate but I will take the rest lol

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GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 08/09/2025 14:55

Catpiece · 08/09/2025 14:46

I’m also in South London and it’s beating down.

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I’m looking out of the window and yes it’s quite sunny but could never be described as “beating down” by any definition. It’s not even warm in the sense that you’d feel the warmth of it on your skin, it’s just not cold.

I don’t mean to be pedantic or keep coming back to this definition but it’s just not.

I walked down to the shops just now and it was pleasant at most.

beasmithwentworth · 08/09/2025 14:55

Goodness absolutely not. I love the feeling of summer and get quite down this time of year and what comes afterwards. Dark mornings, the cold. No thanks. You can keep your snuggling, blankets, hot chocolate and autumn leaves. I can appreciate them objectively but I am summer (and late spring) through and through.

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smileymylie25 · 08/09/2025 14:55

CircusofPuffins · 08/09/2025 14:40

Yes.

I'm going through a bit of a tough time right now and have taken today off work as an MH day. This afternoon I'm going to walk up to my favourite seat and sit in the sun for a while and hope that it makes me feel a bit better.

If I was currently feeling as I do now on a typical grey, dark, cold, miserable autunn/winter day, I don't know what I'd do.

Feel better soon 🫶🏼

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smileymylie25 · 08/09/2025 14:53

BitOutOfPractice · 08/09/2025 14:51

Your entire answer! 😂

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So because I don’t agree with you I’m touchy? Ermmm ok. Have a nice afternoon.

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BitOutOfPractice · 08/09/2025 14:52

CircusofPuffins · 08/09/2025 14:40

Yes.

I'm going through a bit of a tough time right now and have taken today off work as an MH day. This afternoon I'm going to walk up to my favourite seat and sit in the sun for a while and hope that it makes me feel a bit better.

If I was currently feeling as I do now on a typical grey, dark, cold, miserable autunn/winter day, I don't know what I'd do.

I hope the sun and fresh air helps and you feel a bit brighter

InMyShowgirlEra · 08/09/2025 14:52

You must live in a different country to me. We've had a few nice days, enough to notice it's been summer, and frequent rain as usual. We're now bracing ourselves for 6 months of constant rain and darkness, and wet blankets hanging on door frames because they can't be dried outdoors and take days to dry indoors and the only other option is not to wash them all winter. Covering up in a million layers only to end up carrying them around because it's warm in all the shops and cold outside so you're constantly dressing and undressing.

BitOutOfPractice · 08/09/2025 14:51

smileymylie25 · 08/09/2025 14:42

Please explain where I was touchy? Also where on any of my replies or the op have I once said everyone needs to agree with me?

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Your entire answer! 😂

ilovesooty · 08/09/2025 14:51

CircusofPuffins · 08/09/2025 14:40

Yes.

I'm going through a bit of a tough time right now and have taken today off work as an MH day. This afternoon I'm going to walk up to my favourite seat and sit in the sun for a while and hope that it makes me feel a bit better.

If I was currently feeling as I do now on a typical grey, dark, cold, miserable autunn/winter day, I don't know what I'd do.

I hope you feel better soon.

knittings · 08/09/2025 14:50

EmeraldShamrock000 · 08/09/2025 14:50

Don't worry it'll be dark, miserable, cold, with plenty of rain soon.
Dreading the miserable weather.

I cant wait for it.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 08/09/2025 14:50

Don't worry it'll be dark, miserable, cold, with plenty of rain soon.
Dreading the miserable weather.