To NOT like the evenings stretching...

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I absolutely adore the dark nights and love it when the clocks go back in October, love driving home from work in the dark. Love lying in bed all cozy at 7pm looking up at the big, bright moon. Love being at home in the warm or going for a night walk and looking at everyone's Halloween decorations.

I don't like the lighter evenings! I find it harder to sleep, feel like I should be doing more or that everyone is doing something sociable and interesting. All the twats come out getting drunk in their gardens or blasting their shit music out and motorbikes revving about everywhere.

Fuck the light evenings... leave me in the winter!

Dunno. It's probably a relic of childhood when my mum would declare it to be a lovely sunny day and tell us we shouldn't waste it indoors. And maybe partly because there are lots of things that do need doing outside, most of which I enjoy anyway.

By the way, I've just come back from a 10 mile walk today and it was great to see a brighter sky. Loads of mud but no rain. And now I'm home and it's raining so it's cup of tea and jigsaw. A perfect day all round for me.

My favourite time of year!

I also ventured out today , I’ve pretty much been leaving and coming back in the dark,so it was lovely to see all the snow drops poking their heads through the grass. I love spring, it feels so optimistic, just little touches of colour, starting to appear.

My camellia has lots of buds. Should I be protecting it in winter? Runs off to google 🤣

I have one flower on my camelia already. While it has been utterly miserable, it hasn't been very cold.

I HATE the winter. It's dark when I get up, it's dark by the time I leave work. Never see daylight. It's cold and miserable. I feel like I have no life in the winter. Bring me summer any dsy!

I just want it stop raining!!!

We’re all different but I can’t wait for it to be spring. To be able to sit in the garden, to go out at 8pm to put duff in the bin without faffing with curtains and lights.
i find the early dark mildly imprisoning,driving more difficult, everything is more inconvenient.
I live in a village with no street lights and our night skies are wondrous but I’m looking forward to the spring.
bed at 7pm? I’d have to be ill to do that.

Not UR.

Although I do prefer leaving work when it's light but if we could have 'lights out' by 7pm I'd be delighted.

I love the spring and summer in the day but as someone that lives alone with a lot of chronic health stuff that makes me super fatigued and needing to be in bed vv early I find the winter easier from that point of view as I feel less like I'm missing out and more like it's normal to be in bed so early and not doing things in the evenings.

That sounds perfect to me.

It’s good to be active though

Unless you’re ill, have a new born, or training for a marathon at 4am who on earth goes to bed at 7pm on the regular??!

I always chuckle when I read about "big light". Where I live - not the UK - we just call it the light, and it's what most of us use. I don't even own a lamp. I don't get all this using just lamps instead of a proper light.

We don't even eat until 7.30!

Both me and DH hate overhead lights. We have quite a lot of lamps in our living room, dining room and bedroom.

I wish it would stop raining too. My DH is desperate to start digging his allotment.
My favourite season is spring, tiny lambs, snow drops, daffodils then bluebells. Bit of sunshine and vit D on my skin.
Hate going to work in dark coming home in the dark. Even when working from home, light on permanently. Don’t have a long enough lunchtime to go for a walk

I can’t wait for the light evenings. Lots of time for pottering, gardening, and going out walking.

I like the dark nights not the dark mornings. I love Oct/Nov for Halloween and Bonfire Night.

This- l hate winter, l love long summer evenings you can so much more instead of cold miserable days

I absolutely love that it’s getting lighter. We have something on most evenings, and I really dislike always getting home in the dark. But even on the evenings we are all home, the idea of downing tools and ‘cosying up’ from 8 pm lasts for about three days and then the novelty quickly wears off. They really are only so many quiet evenings I can spend on the sofa watching TV or reading books.

I cannot wait for the warm, light summer evenings when we can take the dogs over the meadows, go for a paddle in our kayaks, sit in a pub beer garden after choir rehearsal, or just get home from work and school and hang out in the garden and eat supper outside. And one of my absolute favourite things to do is to have an early night when it is still a little bit light outside, it reminds me of my childhood.

I much prefer autumn and winter evenings, cosy jumpers, wood burner going, all snug indoors. Summer nights our neighbours play shit music, I can’t cope with the heat and there’s nibbling insects everywhere. Much prefer the darker evenings

I haven't seen the moon yet this year because it's been too overcast or wet. I haven't seen my own shadow either.

If I walk to work, I have mud splats up the back of my legs by the time I get there.

I did some gardening yesterday and my lawn is now pulverised to mud because I walked on it. I have some lovely snowdrops, primroses and cyclamen, but I hardly get chance to enjoy them because of the muddy lawn and being dark when I'm not at work.

My favourite running routes are impassably muddy with shin-deep mud.

On dull days that don't get beyond twighlight, I walk to work at twighlight and go home in twighlight. I then have to turf myself out of the house later in the evening in full darkness. Mid-week runs are all in the dark whether they are before or after work. 6am feels like any point of the night (god bless lumie clocks)

10⁰C today has felt perilously close to being pleasant after that 5⁰C damp chill that gets into your bones that we've had for weeks. My nose is perpetually cold and normally dripping. There's cold draughts blowing into the house and keeping the log burner fuelled requires traipsing wood into the house to keep it stocked. All the washing has to go through the dryer and backs up because it can't go on the line and struggles to dry on the airer.

Going out requires more assessment of which coat and footwear is best for that individual weather. No sliding sandals on, you have to find the socks that work for the shoes/ boots and then lace them up. Mud gets walked into the house, and the car gets filthy (and too cold to want to clean out)

Everything is just physically and mentally harder and faffier when it's cold, wet and dark. Plus muscles sieze up and go tight easily.

It's telling that the people that love these conditions and whinge when we get to the moderation of 15⁰C and 12 hours of daylight tend to not bother leaving the house or seeing much of other people anyway. It's fine to be an introvert. Own it. Light and warmth don't oblige you to be an extrovert.

I know that feeling on summer nights like your missing out if you aren’t doing something fun !

Try not to overthink what others are doing, if you are happy to go up early, read a book and sleep that’s totally fine, sounds blissful to me. Just shout your curtains and put some earphones on.

Its so corny, I know but……… comparison is the thief of joy, I say this to myself all the time and remind myself not to care what others are doing.

As a side not most people during summer months are too warm, restless with no AC and have to work so it’s all a bit of an anticlimax anyway