Am I the only person on MN who loves the summer?

I did a 14k run in it this morning. But I took water (never usually need it) and went out in just a sports bra and shorts, because I hate the feeling of clothes. No one died because of my middle aged stomach, so all good.

You survived a strenuous bike ride? Well done you 👏👏
Just to clarify, I didn’t die yesterday or today but it would have been less unpleasant for me if it was cooler when I was mucking out stables. HTH

You are not completely alone OP. I love daylight in the evenings in particular.

I get that some people's "inner thermostats" don't work very well, but I'll be honest and say that not liking the longer lighter evenings completely baffles me.

I would far rather sit in daylight than have to have a light on, and don't get me started on candles and fairy lights. They hurt my eyes.

I love the lighter evenings and i love reading in my garden. I like the fact that i can dry my washing outside. I do dislike it when it is 30 degrees though because my neighbour decides to have a party in their back garden until the small hours on the rare occasions that we do get 30 degrees.

I don’t moan about the cold.

Cold weather doesn’t bother me. I spend all winter out on cold football pitches, I go out walking as usual. It doesn’t even get that cold in Winter.

I think it’s clear that some people are far more sensitive to hot/cold. I’m sure when I was younger I hated the cold but since I had my second child when I was 30 I’ve felt like I’m being cooked alive when the temperature goes over 25c.

But we can’t control the weather so I try to embrace all of the seasons.

I love the longer days. I love warm weather but not too hot!

We have frigid aircon at work as well @TempestTost
I love to wear summer dresses and sandals, but my feet get so cold in the office.

@Attackedbysavagebees I went for a strenuous bike ride this morning. I didn't die.

I love the summer OP. I don't mind being hot. I used to live in a hot place where the temp in July and August was often around 35, plus quite humid, and that was heaven from my pov.

I've really noticed that people manage heat differently. The last few years at my office i a place that is not so hot, our AC was not working. Some of my staff really struggled, just miserable, even though I made sure they could take things slower than normal. I feel like my internal metabolism just goes into a kind of idle in the heat but their doesn't.

Now that we are in a new office I am struggling in the summer because the AC is frigid and I have to get togged up in sweaters and keep a blanket at my desk in summer. Some of my heat hating staff are going around in short sleeves happy as pickles.

I went into town, pottered around in the garden and all the other stuff I usually do at weekends.

I love summer and the warmer weather.

You'll have the posters who were complaining a week ago about it being cold and miserable weather, to this week moaning that it is too hot!

I love this time of year and really dislike winter

😂😂😂this not entirely inaccurate.

I like it. I get that heatwaves can be challenging. But the average summer outside of them is pretty much life as usual in a lighter jacket, so not sure what to hate really.

It is immensely preferable to me. I like the colder months for a short period but it goes on forever in this country - just an endless stretch of grey and gloom. I come alive in summer, love not having to wear so many clothes, can just throw on a loose dress with no socks and be outside all the time. It’s heaven.

And this summer promises to be even more special given the governments ‘Great British Summer Savings’ Scheme!

I love the warm weather and the sunshine. Wearing a pretty dress and pottering in the garden, then sitting in the sun with a cold drink and a good book. Bliss!!

Yet another thread has popped up complaining about the lovely weather.

You would think that having a few nice days was an unusual phenomenon, but it happens every year.

I absolutely love it! But live somewhere in the country where it’s relatively cool so don’t get frustrated by the heat waves (although I’d love it at the moment as while you are basking in the sunshine I’ve just got fog) But tbh I love living somewhere that is so seasonal and changes so much.

I do love Christmas too though! Just wish our winters were crisp and bright instead of the perpetual grey that we have.

Love both summer and Christmas. Shoot me.

Oh I love it! I find grey, damp days so depressing. I would rather not leave the house and in winter I often dont bother apart from work🤣
Bright, warm/hot just makes me feel so much more motivated!
I feel better, look better and am much more enthusiastic and proactive in the Summer.
Cheaper and quicker to do the washing, less cooking, more hours in the day, garden looks beautiful, all the veg at the allotment going well, not muddy and sludgy everywhere, not having to layer up clothes and then come into dry artificially heated buildings (plays havoc with my skin and hair) my neighbours can leave for work in the mornings without leaving their engines runnng for 20 mins and scraping away at their windscreens at some ungodly hour. Sitting outside in the evenings. Birds, bees, butterfly’s etc etc.
whats not to love.

The most it was yesterday was about 30c, where I am in Northants it was about 26c, does your gardener not work when the sun shines.

I live on a quiet "nice" estate but you really are at the mercy of your neighbours.
Yesterday I had to go through a notorious estate and one tiny front "garden" had loads of adults drinking (men shirts off obvs), boys showing off there motorbikes, speakers blasting, yelling at each other. This was at 10am on a school day. I should imagine this weekend looks like.

I love the summer. I love summer clothes and light warm evenings and everyone seems happier.

Watering plants is hardly strenuous work. Surely there are times of the day when it isn't as hot, that's when you do the hard work, not when the heat is at its most extreme. As I mentioned, how on earth do you think people with outdoor manual jobs manage? I had builders working near me in summer, they started early and finished earlier than normal - it often gets hottest later in the day here.

I'm nearly 67 and have never in real life heard all these complaints about how difficult life is in a bit of heat - which, let's be realistic, hardly goes on for weeks and weeks in the UK.