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IHate · 20/11/2025 17:13

RampantIvy · 20/11/2025 16:27

This is mumsnet - full of women who can't cope with temperatures over 18 degrees and who either have plenty of £££ to pay for their fuel bills or are people who like to post on the competitive underheating threads.

I'm sorry you are uncomfortable. I don't like winter either but I'm not a typical mumsnetter. I don't like festering snuggling under blankets in candlelight, drinking hot chocolate, I answer the phone and the doorbell, I like my workmates and got on like a house on fire with my late MIL.

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So much venom…about people liking different weather to you. Christ.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 20/11/2025 17:12

ilovesooty · 20/11/2025 17:10

So you don't have a work commute to do?

Apart from the school run, if your other excursions outside are optional, you will be in a better position to enjoy cold, ice and snow than many other people are.

From that point of view YANU I suppose.

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😭😭 I would love it even with a commute!

Plus my school run is long (long story) so an hour each way!!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 20/11/2025 17:12

IHateWasps · 20/11/2025 17:11

Winter lovers ought to be put out in the midst of a blizzard with no shelter or supplies for half an hour(Ok perhaps 15 minutes) and see how fond they are of it then.

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jimmy fallon no GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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IHateWasps · 20/11/2025 17:11

Winter lovers ought to be put out in the midst of a blizzard with no shelter or supplies for half an hour(Ok perhaps 15 minutes) and see how fond they are of it then.

ilovesooty · 20/11/2025 17:10

mumofoneAloneandwell · 20/11/2025 17:03

😄😄😄 I do the school run!

Pop to asda, lidl and sainsburys

Gonna treat me and dd to an evening out on a bus ride to see the christmas lights

Very busy me! (Much of my time is spent being cosy and making soup though)

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So you don't have a work commute to do?

Apart from the school run, if your other excursions outside are optional, you will be in a better position to enjoy cold, ice and snow than many other people are.

From that point of view YANU I suppose.

Charlize43 · 20/11/2025 17:10

It's cold and I feel for my neighbour. She's 78 and in previous years (since post Covid) she's been in floods of tears at the astronomical energy bills which she cannot afford. I'm always out at work (I have two jobs (morning and evening) so I am rarely home to ask her over, but I do go and keep an eye on her.

I keep hearing and reading the term, 'energy poverty' and it breaks my heart that society is now a place where profit is put over basic humanity. I live in London, which has plenty of homeless people living on the street and this cold snap will take lives.

I hope all the Energy company executives enjoy their fat bonuses. We've already seen the same with Thames Water.

Inhumane.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 20/11/2025 17:08

Would love snow in london!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 20/11/2025 17:07

Me ignoring you haters!!!

Far better than being hot and sweaty and miserable in 30 degrees heat, with days that never bloody end and terrible tv

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genesis92 · 20/11/2025 17:04

ProfMummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 20/11/2025 15:57

If it's going to cold snap like this I would like to see some snow. Alas, we live in the West Midlands, aka the only region of the UK that hardly ever sees a flake of the bloody stuff. Oh, but we got ALL the yellow and amber warnings for the downpour of Storm Claudia, whoop de friggin do.

Try living in Cornwall! Snow is a once in a 20 year event

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 20/11/2025 17:03

ContinuewithGoogle · 20/11/2025 16:53

great, but what do you actually DO?

Spend several hours a day outside?
Spend another few hours standing on the side of various pitches while your children are training?

That's not directed to you, but I read people loving the "cold weather" because they enjoy lying down in front of the tv under blanket with a hot chocolate, it's rather hypocritical of them 😂They're not outside, the temperature has nothing to do with anything, and they could do just that most of the year, just by opening a window

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😄😄😄 I do the school run!

Pop to asda, lidl and sainsburys

Gonna treat me and dd to an evening out on a bus ride to see the christmas lights

Very busy me! (Much of my time is spent being cosy and making soup though)

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 20/11/2025 17:01

RitaFromThePitCanteen · 20/11/2025 16:47

YANBU. The relatively warm autumns of recent years make me uneasy. This is the kind of November weather I remember from my childhood.

Same here

90s baby and I remember being cold and happy in November 😄

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ilovesooty · 20/11/2025 17:01

Onefortheroad25 · 20/11/2025 16:57

I wouldn’t saying I’m enjoying but I probably would if I could just stay indoors and keep warm at the fire. I do not like getting up in the dark and having to drive dd to the school bus. We live very rural and the roads are like glass. I do love sunny cold days but I hate the icy roads.

Yes, I imagine that the "enjoyment" rather depends on what one's commitments are.

Onefortheroad25 · 20/11/2025 16:57

I wouldn’t saying I’m enjoying but I probably would if I could just stay indoors and keep warm at the fire. I do not like getting up in the dark and having to drive dd to the school bus. We live very rural and the roads are like glass. I do love sunny cold days but I hate the icy roads.

SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 20/11/2025 16:56

I don't mind the cold but the sleet was horrible - I didn't have gloves and after pushing the buggy for half an hour my hands were in agony

ContinuewithGoogle · 20/11/2025 16:53

mumofoneAloneandwell · 20/11/2025 15:30

I'm loving it 🤷‍♀️

great, but what do you actually DO?

Spend several hours a day outside?
Spend another few hours standing on the side of various pitches while your children are training?

That's not directed to you, but I read people loving the "cold weather" because they enjoy lying down in front of the tv under blanket with a hot chocolate, it's rather hypocritical of them 😂They're not outside, the temperature has nothing to do with anything, and they could do just that most of the year, just by opening a window

RitaFromThePitCanteen · 20/11/2025 16:47

YANBU. The relatively warm autumns of recent years make me uneasy. This is the kind of November weather I remember from my childhood.

asrl78 · 20/11/2025 16:45

It is good to have some sunshine after weeks of hideous dullness and the third dullest October on record, followed by a November that will almost match it in places.

It is also good that a bit of dry weather that often accompanies a cold spell will help things to dry out a bit. The super-mild weather for much of this month was accompanied by dampness and the inability to step into the garden I am working on without half of it sticking to my shoes.

It is less good that a fair portion of the cold spell has again been marred by cloudy conditions. I much prefer cold crisp sunny conditions where the ground is frozen and you can walk on a footpath without sinking into it.

The cold snap has been a mediocre affair here in the SE, it is too early for proper cold. A few brief periods of snow that doesn't settle is just a typical southern England fake winter.

Idstillratherbepaddleboarding · 20/11/2025 16:39

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Catpiece · 20/11/2025 16:32

For me it means peace and quiet. No bomp bomp bomp of a ball. A housing estate in London during the summer months isn’t a pleasant place.

ilovesooty · 20/11/2025 16:30

RampantIvy · 20/11/2025 16:27

This is mumsnet - full of women who can't cope with temperatures over 18 degrees and who either have plenty of £££ to pay for their fuel bills or are people who like to post on the competitive underheating threads.

I'm sorry you are uncomfortable. I don't like winter either but I'm not a typical mumsnetter. I don't like festering snuggling under blankets in candlelight, drinking hot chocolate, I answer the phone and the doorbell, I like my workmates and got on like a house on fire with my late MIL.

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ilovesooty · 20/11/2025 16:29

My cats are disgusted. The little one walked carefully round the edge of the garden this morning to avoid putting his feet in the snow on the lawn and gave me a hard stare halfway round to remind me of his feelings about it. I agree with him.

RampantIvy · 20/11/2025 16:27

SusanSHelit · 20/11/2025 15:37

Yabvvvvvvu. My energy bills are going through the roof, my joints hurt, my skin is suffering, asthma has flared up and no amount of soup, or hot drinks or bloody sweaters is making any of it any better. I contemplated getting in the bath this morning just warm up a bit.

Roll on spring and the return of reasonable temperatures. If people were supposed to live where it was this cold they'd be wooly.

This is mumsnet - full of women who can't cope with temperatures over 18 degrees and who either have plenty of £££ to pay for their fuel bills or are people who like to post on the competitive underheating threads.

I'm sorry you are uncomfortable. I don't like winter either but I'm not a typical mumsnetter. I don't like festering snuggling under blankets in candlelight, drinking hot chocolate, I answer the phone and the doorbell, I like my workmates and got on like a house on fire with my late MIL.

ContinuewithGoogle · 20/11/2025 16:26

I am not loving it all all, I am cold.

It's painful to go out first thing in the morning for my run, I am freezing, I feel like I can't breathe properly and its just hurt to be out instead of staying under the duvet all day 😂

My kids moan about doing their outdoor sports because they're cold and they can't be bothered - they are fine once they warm up.

It's unseasonably cold - I know it's winter, but it tends to be usually mild-ish. I normally never get proper winter coat/ ski jackets and proper winter gear out. It stays in the loft until our holidays, so either I feel the cold more (which is unlikely) or it's actually colder than normal for mid November.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 20/11/2025 16:25

ilovesooty · 20/11/2025 16:18

No. It's horrible. Roll on Spring.

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sanityisamyth · 20/11/2025 16:24

There’s nothing to love. Had to spend money on a new coat and the pavements are lethal.