to be dreading the clocks going back!

[hobnobsaremyfavourite]

It's dark and cold and already I am dreading the next 5 months of long dark evenings! I know by next February I will feel as light deprived and miserable as I do every winter. The long dark evenings although quite cosy at first just become depressing as you draw the curtains at 4 o'clock. TBH I wish they would leave well alone so we could have lighter evenings and yes I know the mornings would be darker but somehow that doesn't bother me as much. [Victor Meldrew emoticon]

I didn't know that about parks shutting at dusk. Spoilsports.

I like the dark evenings as it makes me feel all cozy and it seems to keep our local yobs off the streets.
But of course in some areas it means they stay out causing trouble longer

Am dreading it. I think I suffer with a touch of SAD, am already stocking up on St Johns Wort.

YADNBU-yuck :(

You can hire SAD lights and are best getting the most powerful that you can (less time to sit in front of them and not in the afternoon).

Loving the name Elephantpoo

I used to think that SAD was people making excuses for the post Christmas blues but I have eaten my words over the last few years as I feel my energy levels and mood on a downward slide as the Winter goes on and have been amazed at the difference once the light levels pick up.

I wish more people would try them, hobnob as they really do make a difference especially in houss like ours which have tiny little windows (none on the west side of the building) so it is quite gloomy even on a sunny day.

We put ours on for 20 mins first thing in the morning so the whole family can benefit - they are too stimulating if used in the afternoon or evening and can prevent you from sleeping.

Any links for SAD light hire sugarlake? Last I looked they were out of my price range to buy.

Thanks Sugar will definetly look into that as I have just realised our house gets very little natural light in the Winter, I hadn't thought of that before!

I am definitely buying a SAD light. There is a SAD association which recommends them, although they do look expensive, so I'd like to see links for hiring them too. They can be a real life saver or so I hear.

I'm fine until Christmas because it's exciting and there's lots going on and the light is pretty when it's around. January to March I find completely hideous and I'm dreading it. I panic from at least August about it. I'm glad I'm not alone.

Think I'm another lone dissenter. I have to be at work from 9-6 each day. Even in the depths of winter I still get an hour of daylight in the morning to wake up.

If we don't put the clocks back, then there will never be a time during the winter when it's light and I'm not at work. And that will make me really SAD.

Yabu

Dark winter nights are lovely.

I love the winter, i like the hour back and hate losing an hour in the summer. I just cant adjust to it. However, I still suffer from the lack of daylight hours and find Vit D suppliments essential from (beginning of if I can find them) October until about Mid April.

Have hat spring and summer when the weather cant make up its mind. I am dreading next week when it is supposed to get warmer again. And not because it means rain, but because whislt the weather is so changable there are soo many bugs, viruses and general nastiness about. I want another harsh winter like last year. More we get, more used to it we get, the less of an in issue, less nasties about.

Less bugs/viruses around last year? I want to live where you live - they were very much alive and kicking their horrible beastie legs up here! It was a miserable time - one thing after another bug wise.

We had 6 lots of cold and virus over the winter period and absolutely nothing post snow and cold snap (until spring)
Normally winter is one giant infection around here with illnesses running into each other.

And nope you dont want to live here. cant even pee without 90% village knowing when and where. As for shops and affordable accomondation.... forget it. I am not here exactly through choice. Necessity is the mother of invention!

We rented our SAD box from The SAD Shop

They are a good company and are excellent at giving any advice re SAD.

The rentals are fairly reasonable and you have an option of rent to buy.

Are we not just returning to gmt? So if we stopped all the clock changing it would still be just as dark?

I love it !

Actually the proper time is GMT which is the winter time.We adjust for summer,not the other way around

Just speaking to DH about this on the way to drop him off at work. DD will be playing before school in the dark virtually. It's that horrid half light that feels cold. We were gloomily looking at the temperature display. 1 degree, one fucking degree. It's nasty. And dark.

I love the dark nights as well. It is just so much cosier

I hate them - I suffer fairly badly with SAD, and October's where I start to slide, it turns into more of a total career downhill into November once the clocks go back. Can't afford a SAD lamp or I would grab one with both hands believe me.

im amazed that this seems to be one thing Mr Cameron has left alone!!!

I love the cosy dark evenings but my DS is autistic and is often awake for the next day at three or four in the morning.

Much easier to cope with in the summer obviously because it is lighter and you don't have the, "do I turn the heating on because DS and I are up and we are freezing our tits off but everyone else is snuggled under their duvets" dilemma.