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It's time... Yes we fucking hate summer.

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SapphireSeptember · 01/06/2019 22:35

Although it hasn't got as hot as it was last year (yet) I feel like I've already had enough. I'm got hayfever, I can't go outside without insects getting in my face and I'm already feeling hot and sticky. I also want to go to bed and someone round here is having an outdoors party. Yes I'm a Scrooge, no I don't care. Roll on autumn and crisp sunny days and frost and apples and brightly coloured leaves (ahh, I feel cooler already.)

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CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook · 13/07/2019 10:45

Going to work yesterday was a nightmare. I was just about surviving on the bus, trying hard to resist the idea of removing my top completely and exposing my naked breasts to the man sitting opposite, when we got to a major stop and what little air there was vanished as loads more people boarded. A lady squeezed in beside me and I felt my temperature soar. I had to resist the urge to just get off!

The air quality in the city during summer is just so, so toxic. It's really bad. It's a superheated cocktail of toxic gases and particlates. With no breeze to disperse it.
It just sits there. You dare not breathe deeply. I have Asthma and in one way at least, it serves to tell me immediately how bad the air quality is. Healthy people though seem not to notice it. I honestly can't understand cyclists and joggers riding and running in heat and pollution levels as bad as yesterday, right next to busy roads.

So far not looking as bad today. Hopefully it remains overcast.

I think I need to move somewhere very green near sea air

Emmabryant123 · 13/07/2019 17:59

Hot today
Very uncomfortable in our flat atm 😡

LoafofSellotape · 13/07/2019 18:02

Quite chilly here today,first day my washing hasn't dried at all and it's been on the line all day. I'm enjoying it tbh, I'm looking forward to sleeping properly tonight.

Wine cool drink for hot people x

Emmabryant123 · 13/07/2019 18:04

I'll have the fan on me tonight

CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook · 13/07/2019 18:12

On the bus again. I swear it feels like I'm sitting in a sauna. Without the steamAngry

RosaWaiting · 15/07/2019 11:44

Evening Standard are threatening 28 tomorrow but also their description of the week includes storms, which no other forecast has for my part of London.

I was on a really weird bus yesterday. It had an incredibly noisy air con unit which switched itself on and off and didn't actually put out any cool air. It wasn't a Boris bus - I know they don't work - but a different kind.

I am so looking forward to cooler weather!

ArseholesOnToast · 15/07/2019 11:51

I honestly can’t wait to open the front door of a morning and feel the crisp fresh nip of autumn in the air.

I can’t stand the heavy humid weather that seems to go on all summer. I don’t mind a bit of sun but I want to be able to breathe as well!

This weather gives me a perma-low level migraine type headache, causes my skin and joint conditions to flare up. You can’t even peg the washing out without sweating like a pig!

Moan,moan, moan 😅

RosaWaiting · 15/07/2019 11:58

yes, the humidity and the migraine thing is definitely an issue for a lot of people.

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 12:44

RANT AHEAD -> (warning for language because God knows I can't complain about this anywhere else)

Fuck me I've had enough.
It is intolerable out there.
Every single place which covers temp has it at 20c..

20c!!!!!!

Not a fucking chance. In the sun it's intolerable. Shade is a bit cooler but every bugger is heading for that. I got my meds but got them home to find their fucking melting.

20 fucking degrees my ass.

And what's with people wearing fucking trench coats? TRENCH COATS!!!!!

And the person who was banging on about wanting it to be this fucking lovely and nice for their whole holiday who turned to me and said how lovely it is and got eyes rolled was lucky I didn't hit them, even more so when as I walked past I heard "if she wasn't so fucking fat she'd enjoy it too" Seriously??? Not exactly a fucking bean pole herself not even like I'm actually fat due to eating anything half way decent as I'm stuck on bloody cereal and have diabetes but noooo must be stuffing my face can't be the fucking drugs keeping me alive can it? That said I heard her husband say "if she turns round and hits you don't you DARE complain" and to be (grudgingly fair) he did apologise to me.

And I did probably look every bit as close to tears as I felt. My legs are swollen and purple from blood collecting in them and look fucking disgusting so I can't even wear short skirts. I've splints on every limb made from fucking material which acts like mini bloody greenhouses - great in winter shit in this weather. Neoprene something like that.

Yes I'm fat. Yes i was looking like a fucking beetroot as its just too fucking hot for me to tolerate. Just keep your nastiness to yourself.

I didn't even get the food I needed because it was too hot in shops. I did get my meds though. I'm sweating like a fucking pig. Can't even have the luxury of a cold shower or changing clothes due to this fucking illness AND I've an email from social fucking services about arranging a "support worker" who'll enable me to suddenly be able to manage much more. Fuck will they. So instead of telling them exactly what life is like and how some random worker trailing after me isn't going to fix my genetic terminal illness I'm ranting at you folks instead.

And now the fucking sun has gone in.

RANT ENDS for now

ILL BE BACK

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 12:46

Sorry.
Got a bit carried away.
Blush

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 12:49

Sun has come back ...

22c inside and compared to outside it feels cool. There's no way it's 20c!

The small fan I got that squirts water by the way might not cool the room but it's nice to sit next to it spraying me constantly with water! My other fan I have positioned next to a cold tap I've going (it's also next to my only window that opens) so that's cooling a bit as well.

CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook · 15/07/2019 12:51

as I walked past I heard "if she wasn't so fucking fat she'd enjoy it too"

WTActualFuckityFuck??Angry What a gobby cow! That's awful OPFlowers

Stupid Bitch.

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 12:52

Humidity can be an issue for seizures too, I recommend getting some Kool and soothe patches, they really help both migraines and seziures.

Come on Autumn get a move on!!

CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook · 15/07/2019 12:52

Sorry I meant that's awful Becca19962014

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 12:57

catherine she isn't alone. Heard people commenting on me stinking as well. At least her husband had the decency to apologise even if he did get a load of abuse for doing so.

I don't know what's wrong with people.

Maybe it's because I'm permanently close to tears with everything going on and struggling with things I can barely describe that it's like a green light for people to have a go?

Well done for get through my rant though!!

LoafofSellotape · 15/07/2019 12:58

Becca19962014 so nasty!!!!ShockFlowers

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 12:59

Stupid fairies still predicting showers every day! Hahahaha.

LoafofSellotape · 15/07/2019 13:16

I had a man shouting at me on the street for limping once,just minding my one business and suddenly he was in my face shouting at me not to limp. Really took the wind out of me!

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 13:33

People can be so nasty.

Sometimes, like today, it can be hard enough to even get myself out of bed never mind outside to deal with other people. In the past I just brushed it off but these days it really hurts

You can never, ever tell what's going on in another persons life. Never not even if you live with them. Be kind.

Shouting in someone's face can be enough to push them over the edge they're already balancing on.

CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook · 15/07/2019 13:42

Heard people commenting on me stinking as well.

I had a man shouting at me on the street for limping once

I think the summer heat brings the nasty side in these people out to the fore. It's already there though.

I remember DD being a baby and she wanted feeding. I was exclusively breastfeeding and exhausted, we were on a packed bus and I couldn't feed her or even pick her up.

Got off the bus.

A man who had also been on the bus started shouting at me, that I was a terrible mother because I 'did nothing' to stop DD from crying.

I burst into tears.

It was a summer day as well.

I guess its that you look vulnerable that they do it. Easy target to boost their own flagging egos. Cretins.

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 14:31

It's got to be looking vulnerable.
It never happened when I was less disabled.

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 14:39

Fairies are on drugs again.

Supposedly we've had half an inch of rain since 2pm, it's cloudy and raining again right now.

Er. It's at least 27c (22.4 inside and climbing, both fans belting out so hoping it'll stay that) and no clouds...

Becca19962014 · 15/07/2019 19:52

Still boiling hot in here.

When i went to put the rubbish out still hot/muggy outside so no point sitting out there. Came back in to the smell and heat of cooking! I'll never get it cool enough to not be ill again at this rate. It's not even like I can seek any treatment because I'll just be told to move somewhere else that's cooler.

dementedma · 15/07/2019 20:00

Where the heck do you all live. It was actually warm and sunny today in Central Scotland, but certainly not as extreme as some of you make it sound. Not ready for autumn/winter when we've barely had a bloody summer here!

Emmabryant123 · 15/07/2019 20:07

South East England