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Does anyone else find this time of year unsettling?

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Stranged · 01/09/2018 18:20

Every year at this time I feel out of sorts and unsettled. This feels more like new year to me than actual new year, always has done.

I like autumn and winter, and in a month’s time i’ll be fine. Just hate this changeover period. I don’t know what to do with myself :(

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retainertrainer · 01/09/2018 22:00

I still get that ‘back to school’ dread. As soon as the air changes it starts in the pit of my stomach. I’m fine by the end of September.

KindergartenKop · 01/09/2018 22:08

It's the best time of year. It's definitely 'new year' for me too.

notacooldad · 01/09/2018 22:08

I love this time.
I like working through the summer as my job is good fun then so I save my leave fro October to the end of March I have just iver 6 weeks to take so lots of holidays and short breaks for me!

PasteSandwiches · 01/09/2018 22:11

Although the heat over the next couple of days may officially make 2018 the hottest summer on record (according to the evening standard)

FrustratedTeddyLamp · 01/09/2018 22:13

I get this autumn and winter are the best time of year IMO now up until January. Ive not grown out of new school year means a new year and it feels like a lot of things are centred around it, as someone mostly stuck in the house for example most TV programmes start again this month, sports have just restarted, films get a bit more serious instead of light summer ones, new iterations of games come out, books and life in general.

RedDwarves · 01/09/2018 22:13

Love September, but I am in Australia, so for me it signals the end of winter. Warmer weather, blossoms in the trees, baby animals everywhere, wattle trees brightening the place up, the end of everyone at work being plague-ridden etc.

I am Australian to the core - three months of cold weather is more than enough, thank you very much. I live for the 9 months of warmth.

colouringinpro · 01/09/2018 22:17

Yes definitely. The next four months are my least favourite time of year. It gets darker and more grey. It's a long term, Dcs and I get more tired and invariably someone (at least one) gets ill.
It's also bonkers busy with millions of family birthdays plus extra kids Christmas stuff.

I really have to try and pace myself.

AJPTaylor · 01/09/2018 22:31

I am 50. Sometime in the next week i will have a dream involving A level history and no revision

Kezzie200 · 02/09/2018 04:21

I understand you although I feel like that in January until I start to see spring flowers.

I guess its the price we pay for the seasons we enjoy. I often wonder how I would feel in a country with little difference over the year or more extreme differences like, here comes a 3 month blanket of snow.

Polkapjs · 02/09/2018 08:57

Yes. I feel like summer has gone just as I was getting used to it and now it’s the dreaded return to school and routine. It’ll be fine. Just don’t like that Sunday night feeling which I’ve had for a week now even though I’ve been working most of summer!

SageYourResoluteOracle · 02/09/2018 10:29

Reading this thread has made me feel so much better. I love September and the sense of anticipation, the colours, being able to cosy up under blankets in the evening BUT it unsettles me in equal measures. I feel that the joy of having an endless summer was perhaps just a figment of my imagination. I KNOW I enjoyed myself especially as we were able to go abroad this year yet I still feel that maybe it wasn't that good after all and - again- a sense of 'did that happen?'

I work in schools so this first week is always bonkers as I usually have a run of 4/5 days of training sessions to run and it's rather intense.

So I love it but feel wobbly in equal measures!

MorrisZapp · 02/09/2018 10:36

I love this time of year but I do get it. If you live in Edinburgh there's a huge sense of the party being over. Someone said its as if your mum is pushing the hoover round and chucking your empties in the bin.

I find late summer frustrating in that it's still muggy and warm, but culturally you feel as if you should be digging jumpers out. I'm still in my sandals most days, which draws a few funny looks.

I always think, if you've got your boots and your cashmere on in early September, you've left yourself nowhere to go come January. Winter is going to be long and dark as always, don't invite it early.

Badtasteflump · 02/09/2018 10:56

So glad I've found this thread! I always feel unsettled and sad this time of year and feel a bit silly about it so keep it to myself - like I'm a kid getting upset about the end of the holidays - so it's good to be able to vent!

I had a lovely family holiday away and then lots of time off work during the school break; most of it with lovely weather, so it feels even worse that it's coming to an end . I hate how in July the holidays just seem to be stretching ahead of you endlessly then suddenly it's gone. I'm struggling to see the positive in weeks on end of work with no holidays, colder weather and early mornings....

I do love Autumn though, and really enjoy doing all the Halloween, Guy Fawkes and lead up to Christmas stuff... I'm just not ready for it yet! I like he idea of doing some positives, like a clean up for Autumn, etc - although I'm not feeling particularly motivated today to do anything. Maybe we could have some (little) ideas on this thread of things to do every day to see in Autumn? I'm thinking very little, so I actually do it

I did buy a pumpkin spice candle last week so I am trying - but then I hid it in a cupboard because the smell felt too premature...

BillywigSting · 02/09/2018 11:07

I get this too, more acutely this year as my only dc starts reception this year.

We're both autumn birthdays too, end of September and very early October (there's only three days between them) so it definitely feels like everything is another year older.

The nip in the air for me isn't refreshing but an unpleasant reminder of the awfulness of winter to come. Both ds and myself are asthmatic and the cold sets us both off so winter for us means less time together, considerable pain, strings of sickness we don't really properly recover from until late spring and a good deal of getting very cold, wet and miserable on the school run (as per last year when he was in the school nursery, I can't drive for medical reasons and can't afford a taxi every time rains, which is almost every day here in the north in winter)

It almost feels like a little mourning period for the end of the lovely warm relaxed days of summer.

hugoagogo · 02/09/2018 11:19

Summer for me is drifting, I feel like I can't achieve anything and time is purely wasted. The heat this year has been especially miserable. I am desperate for routine and being able to get things done.

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