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

I'm a spring and summer person and although I don't hate the other seasons, I do dislike the strong winds and rain that we get these days. The very cold, crispy autumns and winters of years ago hardly seem to happen now.

I love the longer and lighter days, I like getting up early and being able to open the windows and sit and have a coffee with the french doors open onto the garden where I can see the birds and hear the bees buzzing around. The colours in the garden from all the different plants and flowers. I love being able to have a shower fairly late at night and not have a light on.

Best of all I love going down to the beach hut we have just taken over and spending time just looking out at the sea and IoW, the yachts, the huge cargo vessels, the paddle boarders and kayakers. People wandering past stopping to chat or say hello, dogs running in or up to us, friends dropping by for a chat and cup of tea or coffee.

Love the summer! 😎

I have a love hate relationship with summer. I have multiple health conditions that get worse in warm weather and I struggle a lot more than I do in the colder months.
I’m also allergic to many insect bites/stings so I’m permanently anxious all summer long.
But I also enjoy sitting outside on a sunny day, sunbathing, I enjoy having a BBQ with family & friends and pottering in the garden at 6am because it’s light enough to do so.

If the heat didn’t make me so unwell, I’d adore summer.

I think it's only on here you tend to hear it. Most people in rl prefer summer. I won't enjoy my gym class in a bit, but I'm loving having breakfast in the garden. I love not feeling cold for the first time pretty much this year.

I don't like suncream though (neither does my face) and I wish we'd built up to this warmth, so i could get used to going for a run in it.

I’m useless in proper heat, pale and red headed and I just go sweaty and out of sorts. But even in a proper UK hot summer it’s never that hot…. I love not having to take a cardi when it’s proper hot. Love the garden in the early light and watching the bats at dusk. Our house gets no sunlight from October to March which I find difficult…so love those first days in March as the sun makes its way into the front windows…

I love it too. Yesterday was perfect, sun out, warm southerly breeze, beautiful light evening, birds singing, flowers out. Just gorgeous! I was working but it cheered me up. Add to that slinging washing on the line and getting it dry in half an hour.
Life is just more pleasant and easier when the sun is out.

Whilst I like all seasons, I do hate being cold, plus it adds extra to the heating bills, more washing because more layers/bulkier clothes to wash, tumble drying stuff costs more and doesn't smell as nice as line dried.

We get an awful lot of damp flat grey days where I live.

Winter lovers get ecstatic about bright, crisp winter days. I also love a bright winter's day but they are as rare as hen's teeth.

I love wearing summer clothes and not having to bundle up all the time. I don't understand the summer haters when they say they don't like summer clothes because they like to hide under thick jumpers. The thing is wearing lightweight loose trousers and a lightweight top doesn't make you look any fatter than a thick jumper does.

I absolutely the summer! I can’t take extreme heat so much anymore, but it doesn’t upset me terribly and I do still love it warm. I also like proper crispy cold winter days too and cosy evenings. The weather I don’t like - and we can get it in any season in the uk - are those flat grey nothing days. Or windy days, don’t like those at all in case something is damaged on the house

Oh God. I do normally love summer, but DS was born in early June, and I do have vivid memories of being awake at 4.00am with a newborn snarling "Fuck off light! You shouldn't even be here at this time!" , and desperately trying to sleep and hide from the horrible, intrusive sunlight later in the morning. Got your blackout curtains ready?

On the plus side, his birthday party has been outdoors in lovely weather pretty much every year I think, and there are always strawberries.

I absolutely love the summer and the sun on my face, even though I’m a bit overweight and get chub rub (snag tights) and I am self conscious about my belly, but I still love it 😎

Love summer. Bare arms and feet, light nights, sitting in the garden at dusk watching the swifts.

When I win the lottery, I’m going to stay in the southern hemisphere, or possibly Arizona, from mid October to the end of February, at least.

Forecast today is a sunny 21 degrees in my south Yorkshire village.

I love the clear blue morning skies. Im an early riser and its seriously depressing being awake 3-4 hours before seeing daylight. I love getting up opening the windows, it starts the whole day better. But i hate trying to work from home in this heat and wish i could afford aircon

No, I love it. Thank God for summer.

In the last 24 hours I've dumped my winter clothes, got my legs out, gone for a run at 6.30 am, and stocked the freezer with choc ices. I'm just off to Tesco to buy a week of salads and some sun block.

At last !!

This is me too. My energy zaps in warmer weather. So yes, out in the evenings etc. I find it difficult to sleep when I'm too warm as well. The joys of perimenopause.

i also don't tan. I burn when the sun is out. But I do love the long days. I've been doing lots in my garden this year and am looking forward to being able to enjoy that.

not looking forward to work, where people even in the hottest days still complain of cold and have the heating on. Old building with no air con and it does get intolerable by the afternoon .

i like each season. There is something enjoyable for me in each one.

I love the summer , wore a summer dress and sandals yesterday , fab
Sunny riverside walk , got home and sat on the patio with a glass of cold water
Watered the plants in the evening and will need to sort the hose out as the water butt is going to run out soon
Volunteering at park run this morning , no running for me
Love it

I’m in the south east, currently sunny and 16 degrees, forecast for 19 by 8 am and 28 today

Wrong.
I live in a village on the edge of the Pennines so don't get the kind of stifling heat that is often described on here. I suspect the heat haters probably live in London, the south east or a large city.

I also tolerate heat rather better than most of the whingers and don't spend all day lounging about when it is hot.

I love the longer days and warmer weather. We had 24 degrees and a stiff breeze yesterday.

@TeenLifeMumIm in Hertfordshire. 17 degrees now. I don’t think it went below 15/16 all night. Which is very lucky for us as my dc went to his first scout camp for the weekend, and a week ago I was worried he’d be freezing at night time.

I am also with you, the garden right now is a riot of colour, my windows are open, the birds are tweeting it’s lovely.

i much prefer the clothes of summer, hate having to bundle up,just to stay warm, sleeveless tops, pretty dresses, shorts, sandals,

winter sees rain, mud, darkness, I don’t get the love for it, and the very odd mumsnet obsession of hot chocolate, like sitting there drinking it for 5 mins once a day is some form of life enhancing experience, it’s just a mug of hot chocolate.

Where are you? It’s 12 degrees here and grey but warming up by 11am.

Enjoying my coffee in the garden now…
I live for summer.

I commented that we were heading south to locate the sun 😇.

Adore summer. We are shortly moving to a hot country and I cannot cannot wait.

I work outdoors all day in all weathers. The difference between working in knee deep mud, lashing rain, thermals and well, what we have now, where I can just go in shorts and a tee shirt and we can move around with ease and we don’t have to constantly clean floors of mud, is exponential!

I love Autumn aesthetically but summer is just so much easier for me.

I love the summer and had to stop myself commenting on the other thread panicking about a few hot days because I couldn’t say anything nice. It’s hot, just get a fan and make sensible plans. I also love snow and thunder storms.