Does anyone else LOVE winter?

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I’m so excited the nights are drawing in. I love winter. I love it getting dark early. 🌙 Love candles 🕯️ and the fire on. 🔥 I love the orange leaves on the ground.

For me also I’m less busy at work. It’s my husbands birthday and mine and my adult kids too. We go away on holiday in winter.

And of course there’s Christmas…..🎅

Nope! I work outside and it’s brutal. I do like Christmas though and snow (I don’t work in snow so that means time off!).

I think you’re right. I’ll take walking home in the light at 6pm over any amount of “cosy snuggling”.

Ooh, here are my people....!

Yes, I love winter. Summer is awful, the heat affects me so badly - it drains my energy and makes me physically sick if the temperature is really high.
But autumn comes and all my energy comes back...I get a whole energy surge. Love it!

Yesterday was glorious here, blue skies, sunshine that's never going to get too hot, sat outside with a friend having coffee.

Yes, I really do love dark nights, winter candles, starry skies on clear frosty nights, beautiful misty mornings. No, I really don't mind the dark, don't get afraid of driving in the ice and snow, can't understand why the cold is such an enemy and truly prefer wearing a snuggly pullover to a flimsy T-shirt.

And Christmas! Garden centres are already decorating to the coming season....and I've put my first fairy lights out in the bushes outside the front door. Thought I'd celebrate the coming of the darker evenings!

Fairy lights and candles hurt my eyes. I do have astigmatism though and prefer to be able to see properly in bright light.

I never seem to be able to look stylish in winter because I feel the cold, so a nice dress gets ruined by wearing a warm cardigan over it.

I could get on board with a month, maybe two of winter. But 4/5 months of shit weather I find so depressing. It’s not like we even get snowy, blue skies either. It’s mostly grey, drizzly, windy and miserable. I also hate the fact that Christmas starts in fucking October!

I adore spring and summer and wish we had 10 months of it with a month or two of autumn/winter to balance things out.

Yes! I love both autumn and winter. The crisp leaves, the smell of woodsmoke, the food, the clothes. And the apricity of winter sunshine. I feel alive during these months. Summer is just so banal, especially July and August.

I much prefer Autumn and Winter to Summer.

Can we just enjoy Autumn first though please?
All the shops seem to ignore it and rush straight to all the Christmas stuff everywhere and it feels like Autumn gets ignored but it's one of the most beautiful seasons, all the greens and golds on the trees and nature doing it's thing everywhere.

Autumn to me feels like the sigh after the heat of Summer and I just try to enjoy every season as they come.

Thank you, Alice, for that lovely new word - apricity ❤️

I prefer spring and early summer, wearing summer dresses with a light weight cardigan. Swimming outside. Evening cycles.

I don’t mind summer heat and find central heating in winter claustrophobic. I’m an outdoor person though.

I do like the fact we have seasons but winter goes on for so long.

Well someone has to! Each to their own. I bloody hate it. The cold? Fuck no - you only like the cold if you have heating and decent clothes! Without those it’s miserable. The dark? Not great for some peoples mental health, including mine. Tat in the shops - Halloween? Just FO with your ‘boo basket’ nonsense that is literally only a thing to sell crap to people. Ditto Bonfire/Firework Night. I hate fireworks with a passion, they scare my pets. Christmas? Well a few days off work is a nice rest, and it’s great if you don’t buy into any family pressure to have enforced get togethers with people you may not even like…

I love it until January then I’ve absolutely had enough. Jan - March is just cold and wet and a bit miserable imo

I don't love winter - don't hate it either, just not too keen when autumn and winter is dull, windy, wet, cold and dreary! Cold but bright and sunny is fine 🌞

Now I'm retired I no longer have to get up in the dark, come home in the dark after 12 hours indoors barely seeing daylight. There was something so dispiriting about struggling with an umbrella in heavy rain and wind, and sometimes icy slushy pavements at 07.00. So no love from me!

We dont have a proper heating system but I still prefer it to summer!

Nope - I hate it! The worst thing is the darkness - dark in the morning, dark in the late afternoon, dark during the day when it rains or is cloudy! I like it getting light at 4.30 am with the birds singing and the trees beautifully green and fresh air in the house. I hate Hallowe'en with a vengeance - zero interest in pumpkins or the acres of rubbishy 'decor' in the shops. I don't mind Firework Night if it is just 5th November (or nearest weekend) but not night after night from late October to New Year's Day. And Christmas? No thank you - so commercialised now with Christmas Eve boxes, that stupid elf and gimmicky cheap decorations. I also despise hot chocolate, pyjamas worn all day, any kind of 'snuggling' on the sofa, and decorations put up before mid-December. So there!!

I love the apricity of winter sunshine, but we very rarely get winter days like that.

I can't help but think most of the winter lovers on here don't get the winters that we do - days and days of gloomy, dank, low lying cloud and drizzle.

I don't mind snow either if I don't need to go anywhere in it other than a walk for pleasure.

Yes and I never understand how one day can make up for 6 months of dark and cold and rain. Halloween is just shit!

I wonder this. Or if they are just portraying this twee hallmark version of winter when in reality it's damp washing and dreading the heating bill.

Really? I live on the west coast of Scotland and we still get a good amount of sunny, crisp winter and autumn days.

That's OK if you can wear jumpers and boots.

I have to be office smart, in a fairly chilly office./ I've spent the last four weeks searching websites for tidy clothes that are warm but don't look like something my mother would wear.

I can't find little lambswool tops anywhere except Woolovers.

I adore the winter, always have done. I can't bear the summer, find hot weather, eating outside, innumerable insects and all the other things that go with it insufferable. I realise I'm in the minority but I feel so much happier when autumn kicks in, like it is doing now, and I know my favourite time of year is just round the corner!
I love the cold weather, wrapping up warm, cosy evenings in but also long walks in the crisp winter air! I am also obsessed with Christmas so that's obviously an added attraction to winter!

I much prefer summer when it's genuinely hot. But at least with winter you don't have any expectations so can't be struck down with despair when it's cold. I do quite like the dark as well. Sometimes when it's still light in summer at 10pm I think "ffs" and feel guilty for sitting in the house but there's no such expectation in winter.

I like winter once its proper winter, when its below zero and there's a proper layer of snow on the ground (I'm in Finland) but I hate the lead up to winter when its just dark and wet and muddy and miserable. Also dislike the end of winter when the snow melts and its deep, dirty slush everywhere.

Yes!!!
I just feel happier autumn/winter and less happy spring/summer.
This is generally because I am introverted and love being home. I don’t like neighbour noise and I don’t like the pressure to go out in the sun, the chavvy drinking.
Give me a cold rainy day any day!

We don't on the edge of the Pennines. We get a few but not enough.

If it's a nice crisp winter not a soggy miserable one. And if I don't have to drive a lot in the dark in freezing icy conditions or dense fog. And if I can keep the house nice and toasty warm! Then it's great!