Anyone else dread the clocks going back

[hobnobsaremyfavourite]

I hate it.
I loathe the long dark evenings. As the mornings get darker it means I go to and from work in the dark and no natural light in my workplace.
By February my energy levels and mood will have gone to shit
The nearer I get to menopause the worse it seems to get
Apols for the pity party
Anyone else join me on the
"No it isn't cosy it's fucking miserable " bench

It's clearing up here in South Yorks now. The rain has been relentless.

I feel like it hasn't stopped raining since August
I may be being a tad melodramatic

I often ponder whether the short dark days are worth it for the long days of summer

On balance I think yes. I don’t like the heat of summer and thankfully living in Scotland we don’t really get it but I love it being light til after 10pm. I love daylight. I wouldn’t like to live somewhere that didn’t ever get the long light nights.

I used to love it, an extra hour in bed! Now I have a baby who won't know that it's now 6am not 7am on a Sunday morning. I used to think 8 or 9am was early for a weekend.....

I love summer and the long, light evenings and the warm, sunny, early morning starts.

I really don't like the dark, wet, dreary days of winter.......

It is something to endure...

We are getting outside tomorrow hopefully all day (sun forecast). Grab it while you can.

I love it and we get an extra hour, can't be bad.
It means Christmas is on it's way and staying indoors in snuggly pj's watching films and doing the house up.
I do try and go out if the weather is nice though, sunny and crisp mornings of autumn are lovely.

I hate going home in the dark even when it's only 4.30 p.m., and I do find it quite depressing. I was around way back when they ran the experiment in not changing the clock all year round, and I thought it was brilliant.

Thing is with all this "snuggling indoors " thing is you still have to leave the house to work,shop etc and doing that in the dark and cold depresses the shit out of me
You can't hibernate at home for four months

I hate winter for just that fact, dark at 4pm aghhh makes the evening soooo long. I do like being cosy and warm thinking I’m glad I’m inside.
I’m defo not an outdoor person when it’s cold(even wrapped up)
Don’t get me wrong, I have anxiety and a bit of an introvert but I like that if I want to get out I can go in the garden.
Apart from if it’s not too hot or pissing down Like yesterday and today

It's an age thing, for me at least, I hate winter more and more as I get older.

hobnob

I don't woh and can have a food delivery. I do enjoy my walk in our park though.
No way would I be going to work in icy cold conditions.

See I WOH so hibernation isn't an option
I also have significantly better mental health when I can exercise outdoors
I would go potty if I basically stayed in the house for weeks on end

It really doesn’t buy us ‘another month of light in the morning’.

I get up at 7am. By 5th November (about a week after the clocks change). Sunrise is at 7.01. So we get a week, not a month.....Always seems pointless. But I really notice it getting dark before 5. Thoroughly miserable. I drive around every evening to sports clubs etc with kids and I hate doing that in the dark. Everyone who likes it must just stay in every evening under their bloody blankets. I have to go out and about in the dark and pissing rain.

DH informed me the other day that the EU have decided that summer time will not happen as of next year.

So IF we leave the EU we will have to decide whether or not to keep changing to BST. If we stay then we will have no choice, no more british summer time.

I really hope we can keep the change, I don't WANT it to get dark an hour earlier in summer and start getting light at 3.30 in the morning.

The EU have just voted on no more changes. If we are still a member (hope springs eternal) we get to choose either bst or gmt

Hate the dark hate that I have to switch my running times . Hate the cold miss the warmth and light of summer. Can you tell 😂

Oh I see, so no more changing.

I hope we will get to keep the change then. Now I don't have a toddler any more..

" I don’t like the heat of summer and thankfully living in Scotland we don’t really get it but I love it being light til after 10pm"

I live in Scotland and this is one of the things I hate most! Doesn't get properly dark till after midnight and then the sun rises at half three in the morning... can't stand it lol

I love all the seasons, for different reasons. Love seeing things coming back to life in spring, and the days getting longer and nicer (hopefully!), love the long nights and being able to sit out in the garden etc in the summer, love seeing the leaves etc change colour and crisp weather in the autumn and love the colder weather too. Would hate to only have one season.

We have been lucky where I am, yes it's rained, but we have had a few lovely days too. Was nice yesterday (but was working so didn't get to enjoy) but was gorgeous today, cold first thing, but clear blue skies all day.

One thing I do love about dark nights is being able to see the stars. Not quite the same in summer when you have to wait until after midnight to be able to see them.

I got a SAD lamp and it has transformed my (winter) life!

“I don't think it helps that is pissed down for weeks here“

Ha! I’m west of Scotland, pisses down here most of the bloody time!

I find it quite odd on the wee weather app as I’m a sad git who has friends and family’s locations on it too and it’s very weird when eg I’m viewing my friend in Southamptons weather in the winter and my location is already dark of night and she’s still in daylight! Easy to forget the distance does make a difference even in such a small country as ours.

Although I am somewhat amused at some of you thinking it’s only an issue if you have to leave the house as I’m currently housebound with agoraphobia, have been almost 2 years and it still affects me. The atmosphere is different and I struggle with artificial light from a vision perspective.

Which is not to say I don’t sympathise with those of you having to go out.

One of the reasons for the agoraphobia is because I also have a physical disability and I don’t feel totally safe walking outside in wet and particularly icy weather, especially after a particularly nasty fall a few years back where I slipped just as I stepped onto the street, banged my head and shoulder off the door frame and twisted my ankle, also aggravated the disability quite badly, I felt quite battered and bruised!

No! I've been looking forward to my extra hour in bed, and lighter mornings (for a short while) all month.

Every year I'm feeling positive this time of year. I love Halloween and then bonfire night. Love Christmas. Don't mind New Year's Eve either, all the renewal type stuff. But somehow once the warm colours of autumn have faded and the Holiday revelling is over, and my New Years resolutions have come to nowt, I fall into a great bleak depression that starts somewhere in January and isn't over until around Easter. Every year. Doesn't matter how much sunshine or vitamin d I get. Doesn't matter what positives are going on, every year the month of February nearly does me in completely. It's just dark and cold, and everything's a way off to look forward to, and unless you count the shit show of Valentine's Day there's very little fun to be had.

The EU have just voted on no more changes. If we are still a member (hope springs eternal) we get to choose either bst or gmt

I am a staunch remainer, but the possibility we might be able to keep our clock changes is, literally, the only good thing about the idea of Brexit.