I wish DH and DCs enjoyed our garden as much as I do.

[MyballsareSandy]

I love the summer and really enjoy being outside in our garden. I like to eat out there, or just chill and chat with a glass of wine, or play basketball with the DDs. It's like another room, our house isn't that big so summer feels more spacious.

Yesterday I was out there on my own . Teen DDs were flaked over the sofa glued to ipads, one of them even had a fleece wrapped around FFS, it was boiling (London). DH got in from work, told me he didn't want dinner in the garden as he'd been bent double in a boiling loft all day and wanted to sit somewhere comfy and cool, so he flaked out on the sofa with the DDs.

Fair enough I suppose but I feel these light warm evenings are so few in this country that we should make the most of it. AIBU?

YABU I'm afraid.

You can't enforce your idea of what's fun or nice onto other people.

Yabu. I don't like the outside very much. You can't make them think like you.

I have a garden and it never gets used apart from when I'm hanging the washing out, I absolutely hate being outside in this weather!

So YABU to expect others to feel the same way as you.

yesterday I was out there on my own sorry, but that's my idea of bliss.

YABU but have some from me.

YANBU. I love being outside and sunshine is so rare in Yorkshrie that when it's out I want to enjoy it!

I remember having a friend as a child who refused to play outside. I could never understand how she could bear to be indoors.

Yabu. Dh loves the garden, I don't and I certainly don't want to eat outside. If you like it, do it. But don't expect everyone else to because its your preference

YANBU.

Can't understand why someone wouldn't want to eat outdoors on a lovely evening.

YABU. I like sitting outside with a glass of wine in the shady evening.

But I hate eating outdoors and I don't like really hot sunshine.

I wouldn't want to sit in it either if I was baking already.

YABU, lots of us dislike this heat, it's not because we want to upset other people.

The OP never said she "expects" anybody to like the outdoors, just that she wishes her family also enjoyed it so they could spend time there together.

I'm in the same situation and find myself pottering around the garden while DP is inside enjoying the shade.

As someone who doesn't have a garden (sob sob, although we do have a small terrace but it's not child friendly) I say YANBU, but I concur that not everyone likes the outdoors. Make the most of it - wine and a garden to yourself sounds like utter bliss!!

YANBU. I love my garden too and would be out there for breakfast, lunch, dinner and way into the long summer evenings. It kills me to see DS1 inside on his xbox, DH working nights sleeping days (fair enough) and DD2 hunched over her tablet watching Netflix. I sit in the garden like billy no mates wondering where I went wrong with my hobgoblins.

I hate sitting outside so I'd be with them but can you turn it into a positive? Set yourself up with a drink and a book and enjoy the peace? Maybe get a big umbrella to give shade for them and they'll visit you!

YABU. My mum is the same as you and my summers were always filled with snide remarks about me wanting to be inside.

Yabu. I lived a 5 walk from a huge, blue flag beach when growing up. My mother nagging and whinging that I had to go out and appreciate what I had drove me nuts - I'm not an outdoors person. I like the indoors, with unlimited internet and Netflix.

Sandy, I'm with you! I love being in the garden all day and all evening if it's good weather. DH comes out in the morning/evening as he doesn't like being in the sun and the DC come in and out. We eat outside in the evenings whenever we can - somehow leads to a more relaxed and chatty time too.

Yanbu. The slightest hint of sunshine and we eat outside. I'm mumsnetting from the garden right now whilst dh gets bbq stuff together for the beach.

YABU. It's roasting at the moment I was out earlier and it was a relief to get into our cool house. Sitting in the baking heat is not for everyone.

Shove up OP. I'll sit and have a glass of wine with you, outside, on a beautiful summer's evening.

the naysayers are just wrong wrong wrong

My parents used to make me have dinner outside. Then laugh at me being scared of wasps. Happy days Also, happy memories of horrible sun burn.

Shady, late evening, I can just about be bothered to indulge DH and DD but not during the burning heat.

I actually think there might be something genetic about how you feel about hot sun. It makes me feel physically ill and quite 'drunk' IYSWIM. I also hate wasps. Hate them the stingy, buzzy fuckers.

Yanbu. I love my garden even though I'm not a fan of the heat we get the afternoon shade so today before collecting ds I had a lovely hour out there with my book. I quite often eat breakfast out there and we always eat dinner outside if it's nice.

My dc are younger though so they still like being outdoors. Like you say op if feels like having an extra room and makes the house feel bigger.

I'm sadly excited because I've just ordered a chimnea with a vision of being able to sit outside in the evenings well into the autumn .

handsoff I have the kind of skin that burns instantly. So I have to lather myself in sun cream which makes me feel hot, sticky and uncomfortable. The sun beating on my fair head gives me a headache and hats make my head hot. It all just feels unhealthy. I worry about skin cancer and sunstroke.

Happy to sit in the shade though so I don't really get the indoors people, if there is shade available.

I'm not a sun worshipper by any stretch, but to sit in the garden on a sunny day reading and listening to the birds tweeting is just such a rare indulgence.