To feel melancholy on Midsummers day?

[pinkhousesarebest]

And not just because we haven't had a summer yet. I have been known to close curtains/ shutters on June 21st, just so that I don't know what time it gets dark at. So I can't say in two weeks time the nights are drawing in. Am I alone in my lunacy?

yanbu.

I try and comfort myself with the fact we might still have a stonking heatwave in July and August and a beautiful Indian Summer in Sept .

I don't do cold and dark .

Please share a little pity for us, we'll be coming home to Manchester on Monday from Oman.

The last time we experienced temps below 25 C was when we left England 11 months ago.

It's going to be a bit of a shock... but we'll stiffen our upper lips...

CN, expect temps of around 14deg and drizzle

I apologise on behalf of all Mancs

Have skulked around all night feeling maudlin, and now you tell me I have to do it all again on the 24th?

We have a few days grace before the days start getting shorter. It's the Sol-stice, literally the 'sun standstill', when it sets at the same place on the horizon for a few days, before it starts on it's winter-ward swing towards the opposite Solstice in December.

Make the most of it ;-)

its winterward swing.

Bah.

Midsummers day and DH and I STILL have our electric blanket on at night . Am also a summer person love feeling the warmth on my skin and sitting out in the garden until it gets dark but oh no not this year its jeans and wellies all the way sob.

Agree with AnyFucker but would leave the UK for the Winter months for a sunnier climate. Every single year if I could afford to do so.

complex I'm in Manc currently, and sadly it's not just drizzle. It is cold, grey and throwing it down with rain. HAs been for days. Blurgh. I don't normally like summer (hayfever), but this weather is hideous.

Just a PSA: On Monday we will be officially half way to Christmas. You're welcome.

Yay! Shortest day in Oz.

However... there are still 2-3 months of winter before us.

The reverse happens too, with the longest day just before Christmas with 2-3 months of summer before us, most of it the most scalding.

It's all about latitude. Melbourne is as many degree below the equator, as Athens is above. Which may account for Melbourne's Greekliness.

When the sun goes down here, it's like someone switched the light off. I love the UK twilights when I'm there, but don't hanker after them when I'm in Oz.

i love our seasons too, we are so lucky.

Frankly our seasons are a bit wishy-washy compared to areas like Central Europe, say. Take Poland: -30C in winter, +30C in summer.

Now them's serious seasons!

Plus serious racism which nobody seems to mention.

Who was being racist, SoleSource?

Oh I always wondered was I the only weirdo who felt heartbroken every summer solstice! I live in the west of Ireland and it barely gets dark at all this time of year.
But you soon notice the difference...

Do you know what I did today? Ordered my winter overcoat so I can start wearing it when it arrives. A nice warm coat with a hood. Rain has been dreadful here on Manc for days.

Tired of putting up with overcast rain-day after overcast rain-day with my full length waterproof on. If anything eventually drives me to emigration this could well be it. I'm borderline SAD according to trusted friends.

Still can't see myself being happier overall outside of this country though. Maybe that's something I wouldn't know until I had actually been gone for a while or at least made firm plans. Summer, eh? WTF is that all about?

Being forced to endure this depressing shit AGAIN after years of empty promises that "this summer will be better" reminds me of what we recited in school assembly way back when:

Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not
Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot
We'll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not