To really want a cold, cold winter?

[Sparklymommy]

Just that really. I have enjoyed the summer, don't get me wrong, but I long for a proper winter. Christmas card scenes with snow and frozen ponds.

Noo! I get depressed in the winter and I am so cold blooded that I spend most of winter being miserable.

Sir Chen-you could always move further South?

Valium did you not see our -19 degrees??

Scottish holiday ?

Yanbu.

Proper summer and proper winter.

Don't want huge heating bills , but I seem to be an age where this summer has been a living hell I only have to move and I have been soaking in sweat. My face has been the colour of a turkey cocks arse. I'm hot in the winter its been awful

No thanks
Work will get busier with people constantly falling over, and if I can't get to work then mountain rescue will come and get me

Yeah bring it on. Who cares about the elderly, homeless and those in fuel poverty who could easily freeze to death when there's picture post card Christmas scenes on offer.

YANBU I've friggen hated this hot summer. I'm so glad I work in a gym so have extra cold air con! Winter I love. Freezing cold, crunchy ground frost n clear skies. Lovely. Rainy winter not so!

Plenty of illnesses made worse by the heat too.

Yup that makes DS ill too.

Much as I love winter (well I think I still do I have lived away so long) This winter will be my first one living in UK for a long long time, a mild one would help us settle back in without me having to listen to Dh whine about the cold. so crossed fingers for a mild one from me. I'll be back this week.

I didn't notice anybody caring much about the people for whom this horrendously hot summer has been torture.

Quite Russians

Well TBF, you don't spend so much money on heating bills in summer.

Nor do you take your life in your hands sliding down the hill to the bus stop

Nor do buses stop running.

Well, TBF, you don't end up in A&E for 6 hours watching your 9 year old child being put on a drip and being given a battery of neurological tests because she has collapsed with heatstroke in winter.

You don't get sunburn in winter (unless you go skiing)

You don't spend a complete fortune on factor 50 suncream in winter

You don't get hayfever in winter

You don't get sunstroke in winter

You can't get away from the heat in summer, but in winter you cn wear lots and lots and lots of layers

It doesn't matter whether you can run for the bus or not, in summer - you ca't travel safely on a bus in extreme heat if you are likely to throw up or collapse (or if your child is).

So. To sum up - it's unreasonable for someone to have a go at people for wanting a cold winter on the basis that they don't care about others, since tht basis is never applied to people wanting a hot summer; it's also unreasonable to say that a hot summer doesn't bring specific icy related problems and imply that those are the only problems that matter. They aren't.

This summer has been bloody awful for my family, and I am perfectly entitled to hope for a nice long cold winter.

I don't like very hot or very cold weather. Both cause too many problems!

Yanbu, I would like a proper cold winter too,not just soggy days full of wind and rain, but real crisp days .
My favorite threads on mn are the 'snow' ones,everyone is always so Naice, I keep checking to see if there is a long term weather thread yet.

I like the romantic idea of it.... snow, and frosty mornings and lots of fires. In reality, huge heating bills, a boiler that may not be up to it, illness (I was the sickest I've ever been last February) whilst looking after two under 5.

Maybe a snowy three days at Christmas and then it all melts for a mild winter.

I do have a better winter wardrobe than summer tho!

I prefer winter to summer as I burn easily, hate suncream (brings me out in a rash), get awful prickly heat etc. But the cost of gas and a dodgy boiler mean I don't want it that cold. A perpetual early Autumn would suit me fine.

It's,so bloody dark in the winter though.

Dark on the way to work,dark on the way home.

And my Mum nearly ended up in hospital with severe dehydration due to her health issues and the ridiculous heat so the cold is definitely better for her. I wonder what's worse for health, extreme heat or cold?

My mum won't leave her house in snowy weather for fear of falling on ice.

I love the darkness of it. Not being woken at the arsecrack of dawn by the sun, and it feels all lovely and snuggly and you don't even feel guilty going to bed at 8.45 with a hot water bottle and book, because it's already dark!