Who else despises autumn and winter?

[DrCoconut]

It's getting dark earlier and earlier, I've got the heating on due to being cold and everyone is already down with the lurgey. Hate it. The constant juggling of sick kids and work. Dragging everyone out for school when we all just want a pj day. Poor light levels and depression. DS2's autism will soon be massively exacerbated by being unable to get out and burn his energy off (he's also asthmatic and cold/wet triggers it). After the washout summer it's going to be a very long haul to spring. I think a decent spell of good weather would make it bearable but I can literally count on my fingers the number of hot days this year, out of 365 days it's a bit of a let down really. And the rain! Almost constant, varying only from drizzle to torrential, though admittedly that's let up a bit now. So looking forward to the back end of winter already.

I did move south from Yorkshire to the SE as soon as I could as I couldn’t cope with the cold. It does make a bit of a difference.
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I love this time too, but mainly because people aren't as noisy or smelly (bus users on a hot day will understand lol)

Can't bear it. I find autumn the worst, as it's the lead up to winter, the kids have gone back to school (and inevitably start coming home with bugs), and there's not much to look forward to. I love Christmas (and my birthday is in winter), but I'm afraid it doesn't outweigh long summer days and warm weather.

I grew up in a hot country, and I think my body just responds best to heat, it makes me feel amazing. When we retire, we hope to be able to winter somewhere warm.

Otra - true, though I think those in the Cairngorms who are coping with pretty bad daylight hours AND feet and feet of snow are also pretty hardy!

I agree that the further north you live the harder it is to cope with the lack of light - not least from just a practical POV. The cold too - brrr! I went to uni in Scotland and scuttled back down south as soon as I'd finished my degree! Beautiful city, not so keen on the cold and the long winter nights.

You've got the heating on?! We still have the back foot open from the minute we get up until at least 8 in the evening! What are you going to do when it actually gets cold?!

Same here, I had my flip flops on yesterday and our back door open! I live in the South though and our high today was 18 degrees so quite nice!

You've got the heating on?! We still have the back foot open from the minute we get up until at least 8 in the evening! What are you going to do when it actually gets cold?!

Newsflash - the weather isn't the same across the whole UK.

I like the “idea” of autumn/winter more than the reality. In my head I think “ooh- cosy cardigans, log fires, rustling leaves and pumpkin pie”. The reality is not knowing what the hell to wear coz it’s far too hot indoors for a proper jumper, a thick coat broils you and doesn’t protect you from the rain which will inevitably bucket down (coats that keep you warm AND dry are invariably very ugly and I wouldn’t be seen dead). Also Halloween - HATE it. Having to carve the bloody pumpkin while dealing with kids screaming over how to cut the faces in them and simultaneously stop them cutting their fingers off. Traipsing round (usually in torrential rain) knocking on doors in exchange for mouldy old biscuits and 5 year-old sweets.

As I get older I loathe Christmas more and more. I hate the fact that everything falls to ME and me alone. Never knowing what to get anyone, trawling desperately round shops buying crap that people don’t want or need. Cooking and cleaning all day on the day itself, feeling obliged to have dh’s parents round coz no one else invites them, the unbearable pressure that “having a fab Christmas” falls entirely on how I hard I work, basically. Feeling like I only just put the frigging Xmas decorations away and il be having to drag them all out again soon. AAARGH!!!

I'm very much a spring/summer person, I wouldn't mind autumn but I know it's ages till spring and I hate it because of that. I love summer, I don't like sunbathing so that's not the reason, I just love being outdoors and having all the doors open and I love flip flops, lol

Oh I love autumn and winter. These months up to Christmas are the best bit of the year by far and even after Christmas there is still the promise ( sadly rarely realised ) of some decent snow to look forward to.
I have SAD in reverse. I get depressed when spring arrives and the nights start to draw out again !

In late autumn when my sinuses flare up and I get pressure behind my ear drums and my one wisdom tooth that didn't come up properly aches and I get pains in my Eustachian tubes then I get proper grumpy 😾

Madcatladyforever where do you live where it has been relentlessly hot? I’m in South Yorkshire. We had a nice week in February, a nice week in March, a hot Easter and a lovely July. April, May and June were cold and wet. August was cool most of the time, except for the bank holiday which was glorious. There is another thread where posters have been “complaining” that the temperature hasn’t dipped below 20 degrees for months. I want to live where they live.

I really struggle with the low light levels in winter. Having crap eyesight doesn’t help.

It's quite extraordinary how some posters imagine that everyone in the UK has exactly the same weather that they do! Parts of Scotland have been 8 degrees during the day recently - hardly "nesh" not to be in shorts with the doors open!

Well said Bloodybridget. London and the South East have a completely different climate to the rest of the UK.

Even in the SE it hasn’t been a great summer. People have selective memories, especially if they hate warm days. June was rubbish. July was lovely on the whole. Weather turned beginning of August and didn’t really perk up (apart from the odd day) until August bank holiday. I remember packing my shorts away mid August thinking that was it for the nice weather! It was quite autumnal.

I quite like Autumn with the back-to-school-new-term feeling in September, even though no-one in our household is in education any more. I like Autumn and Winter fashions and that I can walk the dog in the afternoon without feeling too hot. I don't like that it's dark in the evening if I want to walk then though.

I can't say that I like winter as I've got older. My balance isn't very good when it's frosty or snow under foot and I don't like driving in snow - my journey to work is quite hilly and I worry that I'll skid or get stuck.

I'm in London. The weather has been, on the whole, lovely throughout the summer. But it's still going to be shit, dark and cold throughout the winter.

I won't say what the 'cheery cosy' posters can do with their fairy lights & hot chocolate because i don't want to get banned

@Rubicon80 🤣🤣 I was thinking the same.

Me
Autumn is shit. The rate the evenings get dark is ridiculous- took bloody months to get to being light at 9.30pm. Literally 4 weeks from August to now, we have lost over 2 hours of daylight.

Mornings are freezing, days too hot for warm clothes and back to freezing late afternoon.

Garden looks shit.

Sun blinds you on the drive into work.

I can tolerate one month of winter for the sake of change. That’s my limit.

Common cold is a fucker but I'm finally comfortable.

Rubicon and user me three! If sitting in the house drinking sodding hot chocolate ever becomes a highlight of my year I'll know that I'm doing life wrong 😂

Even with bad circulation.

I can work with the bad circulation. It doesn't make me pass out, unlike summer.

This is my favourite time of the year,I absolutely love the less intense heat of the sun,I'm still in sandals and back door is well and truly still open until 8pm. ATM it's absolutely gorgeous weather.

I get depressed when it's too hot,so I really loathe the summer and really feel quite depressed,I come alive about now !

I don't even notice January,it's such a short month in my world,once Xmas is over and done with it's hardly any time before spring,I'd like that bit of the year to be longer.

Autumn I love.

Winter I HATE. Dark waaaaay too early, cold, frosty, grim, miserable, and nowhere open and nothing to do.

I wish once Christmas and New Year was done that it could just be March! HATE January and February. YUK!

@1wokeuplikethis

I’m not sure how anyone can muster the energy to be so worked up about something that is inevitable and unchangeable personally.

Jeez it's just a light hearted discussion. Lighten up FGS.

I like the 6 months of BST and dislike the 6 months of GMT.

It's actually 7 and 5

bakedbeanzontoast apart from the people wearing their frequently rained on and put away still wet coats. Stinkeee!

Do people not remember the end of July when it was mid 30s? Even in County Durham, which is virtually the arctic circle?

That was hell. That was worse than the Beast from the East. During the beast from the east, you put your wellies on and got out of the house and didn't pass out from the effort, unless you couldn't envision not driving even 200 yards to the shop.