AIBU to be excited it's nearly Autumn

[Butterfly3005]

Hello all, new to Mumsnet and not sure if this post is in the appropriate place? Sorry if not...

Anyway, was having a discussion with the ladies at work about how the tree leaves are already starting to change colour. The nights are slowly drawing back in and it feels cooler (although it seems to have warmed up again today).

This got me feeling excited as I absolutely love autumn and the '...ber' months!

Apart from one colleague who feels the same, the others think I'm strange for loving Autumn!

Anyone else? :D

Love autumn, something so special about it - I have the way the rush to Christmas means we sometimes dont stop to enjoy autumn. New begginings, beautiful colour and often great weather. Only yesterday i thought autumn felt like it was staring - Im excited!

Rousette, but it's a state of mind I think.
There is no doubt that weather in the UK cold and wet for many months.
It's about finding joy though

Cailleach, totally agree. I don't think about Autumn or particularly angst about it, whilst it's going on - only when I come on a thread and moan!

I just find it a bit romantacised on this thread, when in reality it is just rain, drizzle and gloominess a lot of the time interspersed with the odd high spot of sun or crunchy leaves!

I am a glass half full person, believe it or not and don't think much about Autumn one way or the other ! still very much prefer summer though

I do think I was born in the wrong place, summer just suits me. I don't suffer from the heat, I don't get sweaty, I love it. I go a golden brown by just looking at the sun, I don't burn, I just lap it up. My skin is better, I need 2 hours less sleep a night than in winter. I love the clothes, I love bright colours you can wear in summer.

Then along comes autumn, my skin goes grey and spotty, my hair is lank with damp weather, I want to sleep far far more and I feel lethargic, and I just want to eat huge portions of cottage pie which ends up with me putting on weight!

deadgood

*"I love all seasons, but especially Autumn, there is a crackle of magic in the air."

Love this!*

Rousette-

* usually involves rain lashing against the windows, waking up to grey skies, strong winds

Which has been summer in Scotland for the past two months!*

But I find summer being romanticised on this thread.

It has rained here almost every day for the past two months. Grey cool and sodden. Not weather for a summer dress or sandals.

not alone - love the time of 'mellow fruitfulness'. Berry picking, dig out your big coats and nice scarves etc :) bye bye insects

I love Autumn (which I think begins on 1 September) but don't much like Christmas. I think partly because it does last a whole bloody month - and seems to involve negotiations that start in October.

True Cailleach666 !

I romanticise summer I know I do. But only because it suits my metabolism, my skin, my hair and my lifestyle better!

Weather is better where I am daaaahn sarf... I don't wear a coat from May to October unless I really really have to, hate coats!

Fair enough Rousette.
I'll be wearing a jacket today though that's for sure.

Sometimes I feel like MNers have some kind of fantasy idea about what autumn is like. I've never experienced anything like what people describe. It's all rain and grey skies and cold. And goes on for-bloody-ever. It's miserable.

Agree

You can get excited about Autumn when we have had summer and I have switched my heating off.
I don't know about seasons in the uk as it just seems to be cold and wet and grey and miserable for 11 months of the year then if we are lucky we get a couple of weeks of sunshine (not necessarily in the school holidays) Then it is back to being depressing

“there's no pressure to wear skimpy clothes.”

I don’t feel any pressure to wear skimpy clothes, and I don’t wear skimpy clothes, just clothes made from thinner material.

“Some people make it sound so romantic but going to work early in the morning and having to defrost the car is not fun. It isn't fun when the younger kids are stuck in because it's dark once they get home from school. The relentless rain and cold. Cold makes me feel ill and depressed.”

This ^^

“Everyone talks about Autumn in a misty, leaf crunching underfoot way, when in fact it usually involves rain lashing against the windows, waking up to grey skies, strong winds (which often means power cuts here) and general gloominess. Very depressing, no more being outside pottering in the garden for hours on end, I start to feel caged in.”

And this ^^

Cailleach666 sorry I don’t agree. I don’t feel the pressure to charge about in summer. I don’t have small children so there is no magic for Halloween and Christmas. I get cabin fever when confined to the house in bad weather, and I get plenty of time to read and do indoor activities all year round. Maybe you don’t have to deal with the impracticalities of crap weather as much as most people. Every year I feel sad when I read about posters who can’t afford to keep their houses warm in cold weather, and who struggle to dry washing because they have no heating or tumble dryer.

I think we all have romantic fantasies about the seasons and then are disappointed. Summer should be warm and sunny and often isn’t, autumn should be bright and crisp and usually isn’t, winter should have bright, frosty days and is usually dank, grey and gloomy, and spring should be full of brightness and hope and is usually cold. I think I will move to Italy.

And back to the irony I pointed out before – the summer haters can’t wait to get into jumpers and snuggle under blankets. These are the people who hate heat

I love the light late nights. This is already too dark for me.

I love being able to go out in sandals and without a jacket.

I hate hate hate gloomy early nights, having artificial lighting from about 5pm in Autumn and heavy shoes and clothes and thick tights to protect from the awful weather. It's depressing.

also don't recognis the fictional autumn you are all looking forward too. Crisp mornings? Warm days? Clear skies?
It'll be grey, damp and miserable. You won't be able to kick through the leaves because they'll be soggy pulp from the rain. You know this is true if you live in the U.K

Fiction?! Ok. I've experienced plenty of clear, frosty and crisp mornings and kicked plenty of crunchy leaves. I've enjoyed sunny clear days too and I'm very much in the UK!

But clearly not where I live Britt. The reality of a Pennine autumn is rain, rain and more rain, or dull, grey weather. The low light levels really affect my mood.

Christmas lasting a whole month??? Good grief!! How does it last a month? I've seen so many people on here getting stressed about just one day/couple of days so a whole month sounds madness! Where do you live?

We have it over a month I reckon? Although my fruit for my Christmas cake will be prepared next week then the cake made two weeks after that and the cake fed weekly until December. We have December pretty much booked up now consisting of Church services, Christmas film day, decorating inside and outside house, visiting family, distributing presents, Christmas fairs, parties, all alongside school and work. Visits to Father Christmas, visits to Dog and Homeless shelters. We got our pantomime tickets for New Year's Eve last New Year's Eve as we go every year. We are just waiting to see what re run Christmas films are on at the cinema this year as go every year. We've seen Home Alone, Jingle all the Way, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful life and Elf on the big screen so far.

I'm always surprised how people only bother with one day for Christmas when there is so much to do!

But clearly not where I live Britt. The reality of a Pennine autumn is rain, rain and more rain, or dull, grey weather. The low light levels really affect my mood

But then you can't call it fiction because it doesn't happen where you are. I'm sorry you suffer, I suffer in warm weather so I know it's not fun.

But we didn't have summer yet

"I'm always surprised how people only bother with one day for Christmas when there is so much to do!"

When your children are teenagers all that disappears. Also, it depends on family size and if they are local - in our case very small and distant, so the few presents we need to buy are Amazoned to them. There are only ever three of us for Christmas dinner and the magic disappeared by the time DD started secondary school. No-one I know has parties, we support the church Christmas fair, and that is just about it. School doesn't do anything extra as they concentrate on exams.

And when your DC's are adult it disappears too! Work means they often only get home Christmas Eve and you just hope they can hang around until perhaps NYE or just before.

However, I like it that it's just ONE day. The rest of it I just consider as family time, it could be summer or winter, Christmas is a bit irrelevant once the Day has come and gone. Don't get me wrong, we have a fantastic Christmas Day but it is just one day

When your children are teenagers all that disappears. Also, it depends on family size and if they are local - in our case very small and distant, so the few presents we need to buy are Amazoned to them. There are only ever three of us for Christmas dinner and the magic disappeared by the time DD started secondary school. No-one I know has parties, we support the church Christmas fair, and that is just about it. School doesn't do anything extra as they concentrate on exams

As teenagers, our house was very full on for Christmas so I've been raised on it being a big deal. We don't have a massive family or a wide social circle but somehow things get booked up and it's not often child led, e.g I want to visit Chatsworth at Christmas so we tie it in with their Christmas Fair and it's one day to do it all.

We also only have three for Christmas Day and that's our relax day too. All of this was done pre child so it's not child based excitement that will expire as soon as they become a teen.

I'm 37 and I've never lost the excitement or love for the build up, the day itself or the weeks following.

But what's exciting about the weeks following Christmas? Second week in January?

I loved seeing my DCs excitement when they were little. One of them is still like a big kid about it and we do all the rituals we used to do when they were small but it's condensed into Christmas eve and Christmas Day and to me it's just a chance to catch up with family and it's a bit of a chore putting up the tree etc as there's no excited little faces helping.

I have a very unsociable husband who doesn't like going out or visiting places, especially if it is crowded. I work part time and OH is semi retired, so we don't have a fast paced life that we need to escape from. Christmas day is not that dissimilar to other days except that we have a few presents to open and a big lunch.

I am envious of people for whom Christmas is a big deal, but it lost its magic for me many years ago.

Norfolk is lovely in autumn. And we can't afford to put the heating on willy-nilly, and I don't have a tumble drier so there is damp washing in the house. I don't care. I still love it.

People are allowed to like different times of year

My fav season too

I bet Norfolk is a lot lovelier in autumn than where I am. You get a lot less rain than we do for a start. I love Norfolk.