To find August a really weird month

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The weather is not great and there's already an Autumny feel in the air - nights are drawing in quite noticeably. Everywhere's looking a bit tired and end of summer-ish instead of fresh and green like earlier in the year. Lots of people are away and everything seems quiet, there's a definite lack of routine due to the kids being off school even for those who are still working. The shops are full of end of sales tat or new season stuff that nobody's ready for yet. And to top it all I've just seen conkers on the trees in the park.

I really want to enjoy summer while it's still officially here but I always find August such a funny in between sort of month. I'd it just me?

I love August since I don't have to go to work! I don't pay much attention to the weather, though.

I disagree about everything being quiet during August: I'm in Cornwall, and you can't move for tourists everywhere.

I agree but love it as it means autumn is on the way.

Warm here though today, I'm sitting in the garden.

I'm currently in Devon and it's mobbed here too.

That said I when I walked the dogs on the beach this morning there was still only me, a few other walkers and the surfers . Holiday makers were still tucking into their breakfast no doubt.

We don't get Augusts any more. In my mind August is the hot dry month with endless play days in the sun.

Seems like in most recent years the summer is just a damp squib every time though, and calling these weeks August accentuates the disappointment. Sick of the bloody wind here (midlands) and the drizzle, and the showery, cloudy, 10 mins of sun followed by 2 hours of grey. Humph.

We should re-name it. So these 4 weeks don't feel like such a let down every year.

Everything just seems to be on hold, waiting for September. It's weird

I think it's an odd month. I always think the August BHM, is the line in the sand to Autumn

August is expensive month for me. DD, Niece, Ex and I all have birthdays with 12 days of each other.

Personally i tihnk august should be october, as oct is 8.

Its September I hate. Come the first of September it will all "What's happening at Christmas, blah, blah, blah which spoils it all in my opinion.

My birthday and wedding anniversary are at the end of August. Most years I feel it is summer up until then, but this year it feels autumnal already.

I love August, I love the fact that there is no school so routines can go out of the window. I wish the weather was better but ho hum, this is England...

I hate that the 'Back to School' stuff starts so early and do my best to ignore it all.

You don't get dog days of summer any more do you?

Maybe it's being grown up. I live in Ireland so it's always shit, but I swear I remember August as a month of warm evenings playing out, taking the horses to the beach for a swim, all dusty and sandy, then a big scrub up the week before school started back

September is lovely though. I adore it. Always nice weather, getting my warm dresses out again, making DH and DD join me for crunchy leaved walks,and thinking I look adorably autumnal

When actually I look like an orange splodge in a bobble hat and by November I have mild SAD

I was thinking this just the other day. It is a strange month - neither properly summer any more but not yet autumn. It's mainly the reduction in the daylight hours, I think - nothing says summer like long, light days.

I was going to post exactly this last night. It had been dark grey and damp all day, it got dark early because of all the clouds, we had braised steak and mash for tea when we should be having salads, and I'd been into town and as a pp has said, the sales are all but over and the AW stuff is being put out.

However...when it's sunny I do love August. The quality of the sunlight is much softer than in June/July, I like the flowers that are out at this time, it just somehow feels friendlier than the earlier months. But it does make me realise that autumn is coming and that summer (if we've even had one) has been and gone for another year.

September is the new August. July and August are always disappointing, then I decide there has not been a summer, look forward to autumn and - bam. Blazing hot sunshine!

I thought it was only me who could sense Autumn in the air (I thought this made me a bit psychic!), but it looks like I'm not the only one! I agree with you though, it feels strange but I think the seasons aren't what they used to be. I was born in the 70's and I remember August feeling very warm and summery as a child, probably the most summery month of all, but not any more.

It is weird, the schools have only just broken up and there's 'back to school' wear/stationery in the shops already. What happened to the buckets and spades?

Come to Edinburgh! The city goes mental for the whole month. Late night outdoor drinking, gin bars popping up on any space bigger than a doormat.

And Scottish kids go back two weeks today.

August has always been muggy and stormy in my memory.

I'm Irish, so to me it's the first month of autumn.

I quite like the slightly empty, restless feeling.

It makes people a bit mad.

That's what Lúnasa was about in Irish mythology, as I recall.

I wish England and Wales would adopt the Scottish school holiday system and break up earlier. The good weather (assuming we've had any!) tends to have gone by the time the children break up.

Custard LOL @ being psychic because you know Autumn is coming!

Brilliant.

I think I might be psychic too. It's only the middle of the afternoon, and I predict there's going to be a night falling some time in the next six or seven hours.

I live in the Algarve, August is our busiest month and it's nice to have the warm evenings and see the village busy and bustling but I'm also just waiting for September when it's a bit cooler and less frantic.

I love November when all the holidaymakers have gone

I predict tomorrow will be Thursday.

I LOVE August! I am still working but less term time clock watching means I get more flexibility to things I want (sport, see friends in the evening). It's quiet at work so there's a feeling of just ticking over which is nice.

It's nice weather here today.