Aibu to be fed up with summer weather in the UK?

[BazilGin]

Just that, really. Yes, I know July was rather good but you can't really enjoy it as a kid stuck at school for 6.5 hours. Since the schools broke off, it's been awful. August has just been dire temperature wise. The rain is depressing. Rant over!!

Yanbu. I'm in Australia, we had a never ending summer and now it's winter. I couldn't wait for some rain as I was so sick of sweltering and sticking to every seat! Now it's just depressing and I'm wishing for some sun again!

Aaw, come on eat, it's a lovely sunny day in the Melbs. Where are you?I've been pottering in the garden and am just popping over the road to have a sticky beak at a neighbour's house that'll be auctioned this afternoon.

I've only ever been to one auction. They are well strange to my UK eyes.

The winter's on the turn. Wattle's out.

Famous last words.

Echt won't say exactly for anonymity sake but not Melbourne. It's cold here still, very windy, very cold nights. Still raining on and off and needing the heater on. I'm looking forward to walking to school in the mornings, sitting in the sun, having a cold drink outside, wearing something other than layered clothing, I'm even looking forward to a hot Christmas

Oh and I love a good auction. Not that I can afford a million dollar house around here lol

It is utterly depressing to say the least. We've just booked a holiday for almost 5 weeks in the Southern Hemisphere over Christmas time, we're taking DD1 out of school, packing our swimmers and I plan to soak up as much sun as possible.
I think I suffer from SAD...

I was going through some FB pics for my mum yesterday and noted some taken of DD on a beach, in a bikini, building sand castles and swimming in the sea. Mum assumed they were from our holiday last week...

They were taken in the UK on 11 April.

Stupid weather.

Though of course, if term dates were changed, then there would be a run of sunny sweltering Augusts.

It hasn't been that bad in the south-east. There have been a fair few wet days, but interspersed with lovely warm, sunny days. We've had quite a lot of days where it has been warm and sunny, but with a heavy shower or two. Yesterday was glorious.

I like a summer like this. I like the way the view from my house is still of green fields, it's not all parched and brown. The rivers are still at reasonable level and we haven't had a hosepipe ban yet!

We had 10 days in Dorset and Devon last month, and only one rainy day. That's unusual - I can remember more wet holidays than dry ones. It was so warm that I had to sit in the shade some days, and I love the heat.

a few days rain pretty much sums it up, with lots of showers. The last 2 days have been reasonable here. I think you just need to make the most of it, UK weather is changeable and summers with wall to wall blue sky are just in people's fantasy.

ROFL at the person who couldn't leave the house to buy coffee.

if term dates were changed, then there would be a run of sunny sweltering Augusts.

I'm not sure about that actually. I have an end of August birthday and it has been hot on my birthday that I can remember once in my whole life. The autumn equinox is September 21st do it stands to reason that August is often autumnal, particularly towards the end.

eat the auction was a slow burner, and the crowd massively composed of estate agents, neighbours, their children and dogs. :o

It sold.

When you live in the North, you just come to expect it