Anyone else dread the clocks going back

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I hate the long dark nights
Go in to work in the dark
Come home in the dark
I find myself getting quite anxious and low as the weeks go on
Try and embrace the cosy element but I miss daylight
I am the grinch I know

I hate feeling constrained by thick clothes and blankets Vintagevixen

Last summer I could get away with wearing a dress, underwear and sandals - bliss. I am currently wearing underwear, socks, jeans, T-shirt, jumper and slippers (I have got the heating on so am feeling comfortably warm)

Exactly @VisitorsEntrance! Some posters on here sound as if they have personally spoken to said Scottish farmers and found them to be holding the rest of the uk to ransom

Yes I know a lot of people feel the other way to me, we are all different! I hate just wearing light clothes, I like to be covered. That's why it's a good thing our seasons change and we have a bit of both! I try and appreciate why people love summer and not be a party (or heat!) pooper for my family and friends, but I'm always counting down the days until winter TBH.

I've always been a more on the goth side of life though!

The heat from being under a blanket only lasts as long as you are under the blanket. The interminable summer heat is all around you all the time, stifling you. That's the difference. I like heat I can control.

I dont get why people are saying there is more light in the mornings when the clocks change in October?

Am I being really thick, as I am sure it is light at 06.00 in the summer.

I dont get why people are saying there is more light in the mornings when the clocks change in October?
Compared to if we didn't put the clocks back rather then compared to summer.
So today the sunrise for where I live was 7. 18 whereas yesterday that would of been 8.18, we get that extra hour of light in the morning rather then later in the day by pushing the clocks back

@Yonijust

The days get shorter so we have less daylight overall in autumn/winter. The clocks moving back moves the window of daylight earlier. It won't be light as early as it was in summer, but it will be light an hour earlier than it was immediately before the clocks went back.

Upsy - that's it for me too, I find it very easy to regulate my temperature with clothes, blankets etc in winter but can't do the same in summer, once I'm down to sundress and underwear and still sweltering I get really grumpy. Hate having to wear suncream too. But I do like the longer hours of daylight that summer brings.

I think the difference is that where I live summer is nothing like as stifling as it is in London or other big cities. We had a lovely summer this year, but never went over 30 degrees. Our winters are usually grey, damp and gloomy. If it was clear and frosty I could deal with that, but we really do get mostly grey days with low light levels in winter.

I love it. I love winter, I adore the dark and cold and cooking lovely stews and casseroles. Cuddling up on the sofa with the heating on etc.

Also I love Christmas and the countdown to it.

I do understand why people wouldn't like it though.

I flipping hate it and it affects me each year, the worst is from about now to the 21st of December, then I start to perk up and by April I'm so happy although slightly worried about the summer solstice, because after that the dreaded countdown starts as the days get shorter.
Fucking hate cosy bullshit, I just want to wander down a sunlit lane eating strawberries wearing a light cotton dress and at the vert most, a light cardi. Hate layers, hate heavy coats, hate massive mammonfest that is Christmas and how it's shoved down your throat from every angle, in shops, on telly, with smug braying families doing cosy familial stuff together over plates of Brussels sprouts and I am pretty cross about winter generally. Autumn I find beautiful but once the clocks go back I'm done with it.
Roll on Spring.

I think if 6 hours is 9-3 with 45 minutes twilight either side it covers 8,15-3.45 which covers school hours while if 6 hours is10-4 with 45 minutes twilight it is 9.15-4.45 which means daylight after school but complete darkness on the way to school

either way as most commuters are out from 8-5.30-6 it will be dark for them both ends but for school kids 9-3 works better than 10-4
it used to be talking to much older people in north of scotland that school didn't start till 9.30 to 10am in winter for this reason and each child was expected to bring a slab of peat with them to keep fire going in schoolhouse!!!!

Yes Lonicera you're right. I'm in London and it was very difficult particularly on the tube, over 40 c in the carriages plus I have a south facing bedroom.

TBH the pic looks like a perfect day for me! I could happily live further north than currently, think I would be right at home in Scotland weather wise.

"over 40 c in the carriages plus I have a south facing bedroom."

Even I would have hated that. We are on the edge of the Pennines. A very hot day here is about 27 or 28 degrees, and there is usually a breeze.

Winter lovers - does that include January? I can’t for the life of me fathom what’s good about January. Miserable, drab, everyone is skint and on diets, and there’s ages to go til another holiday from work. Dismal.

Hate it.
My mood has been dropping for the last few weeks. Now the clocks have changed and the dark days have arrived I already feel overwhelmed by winter.

Yes love January. I find it very restful, there's not much on and I can just chill out, but I am a massive introvert.

I do like Spring when the flowers pop out too, it is just high summer that's not for me.

I quite like January too, Christmas out of the way, days starting to lengthen but still the possibility of snow, first bulbs popping up, several family birthdays and this year I have done my tax return so I won't be fretting about it in Jan. In order of preference for me, the seasons go spring, autumn, winter, summer. I don't mind normal summers too much, just not the sort we had this year.

I think in January there is no need to pretend it is all fun. Plus there is spring to look forward to.

God that's beautiful Lonerica. Is that your view?

It is not a picture of this area, but pretty typical. I live in a village surrounded by woods and fields.

Well, lucky you. I'd be rushing out there every day (and I'm not a fan of this time of year).

Thank you both for explaining,
I was very tired, having been up since 05.30, it makes sense now.

Lonicera I hate the greyness in the picture. Are you in the UK ?
I can't believe the passion for grey in interiors at the moment. Friends have put in a grey kitchen in their new house, there are touches of grey everywhere.
We don't need it. We only have to look out the window - grey cloudy days. Yuck.
I'm in Ireland.
I love Spring and Summer.