To feel glad Summer is almost over?

[RhubardGin]

My friends and colleagues are all speaking about how sad they are that Summer is almost over and that it will soon be cold and dark again (I live in Scotland)

But I LOVE Autumn/Winter and I've never liked Summer. When I tell people this they look at me like I've just told them I like to kick puppies in my spare time!

Is anyone else looking forward to the cosy dark nights and getting their fluffy boots, coats, scarves and gloves out of the wardrobe? Or am I a complete weirdo?

I love everything about Autumn/Winter! Cosy nights, cosy clothes, getting the candles on, Halloween, Bonfire night, Christmas, the crisp wintery chill in the air 😍

Anyone else?

Yes! I never know what to wear in summer. I love heat but only when I'm on holiday and have nothing to do. I can dress for autumn and can't wait to get my big boots and coat out.

I love Autumn, but feel very cheated this year. We're in Northern Ireland and its pissed down most of August, the garden furniture is waterlogged and it's cold, dark and miserable. I'd like a week or two of dry sunshiney days to dry everything out first please

Yeah I love it up till January - i absolutely love the run up to christmas, bonfire night etc - then it just sucks and I can't wait for Spring and summer

I love autumn, I dont understand why everyone has to love the summer and if you dont your ungrateful.
And shoofly I live southern england and it has been wet most of August as well.

YANBU I love autumn and winter.

Oh God MN is full of summer haters who coo about 'crisp autumn days' and 'snuggling down to watch a film under a blanket'. I like those things too but I pity the summer lovers who aren't even guaranteed their season each year.

The problem is people need to stop believing that August is summer. In my part of the world at least. May to July is summer, and I'm being generous saying that. Seriously the weather here is part of the reason for depression. I really like autumn.

Another 'isn't Autumn lovely with its crisp sunny days and endless snuggling under blankets' thread. Don't forget the fun of Halloween and bonfire night!

No, it's drizzly, cold and depressing. I don't want to snuggle under a blanket. I want to be outside with the sun on my limbs!

I'd understand more if we'd had a decent summer....

I always see the August Bank holiday as the end of summer.

Nights start to draw in quickly, the leaves start browning & SCD returns. Woohoo!

I love Autumn

Maudlinmaud

I'm glad someone else thinks this! May was always scorching where I come from (whilst we were supposed to be revising).

I like it when it turns to September and people stop expecting it to be sunny and complain that it isn't. It's all about expectations.

The autumn love in.... it's never the reality though is it?

Crisp days? No, moans about endless bonfire smoke,heating prices,slushy pavements,icy roads,Halloween haters,Christmas stooges,weight gain,misery...that's more like it!

And those winter 'cosy' clothes.....misshapen and baggy by January

I want it to be over, I have two new pairs of boots to wear!

Summer is over in this house! My personal end of summer marker is Burghley Horse Trials, it's summer's last hurrah. I watched it last night with a glass of red wine. It is now officially autumn. possibly only in my house but whatevs

So tonight we are having a chicken pie for dinner and the rest of the wine to celebrate, and I am going to undertake the traditional autumn ritual of booting dh until he does his Manly Duty and gets me some wood in. Or at least threatening to do it myself, which would involve me using the axe or maybe even the chainsaw. Then I can start setting fire to things 🔥

@thecatsthecats I can guess your location.
I blame the farmers.

How can you tell the seasons apart any more? They are all just bloody wet. Autumn should be crisp but it'll be wet. Winter should be snowy but it'll be wet. Spring should be wet with showers but it'll be monsoon rain interspersed with drought. Summer should be warm and sunny but it'll be wet.

Rural Perthshire here.

Since moving south I love autumn. Warm sunny Octobers, crispy red leaves, mild winters with spiky frost and occasionally snow.
In the north of England it seemed wet and dreary from September-May. The air was always damp and things didn't dry out properly until spring. Even the snow was turned into slush by rain within a day.

All the seasons merge these days. Can't stand the short days of autumn/winter. Thank god my kids are no longer little when you'd come home from school in the dark, having gone to school in the dark, and they couldn't play in the garden or go to the park.

So you are yabu, sorry!

I live in the south, too!

I love Autumn and Winter until New Year, but loathe Jan and Feb - boring, drab and skint months.

I've been looking at jumpers, coats and boots online this morning. Not impressed so far! Hopefully some nice stuff will come along soon.

What summer? The two weeks we had?

Yep ...it wasn't really much of a summer this year, but the leaves are already falling and I saw some Conkers the other day. Can't wait for Autumn to begin properly.

Me too. I can't wait for my soar throats and hay fever to disappear like a puff of smoke. 😩

YABU, we get less than 4 weeks of 'summer' weather, you summer haters get the rest of the year to sit happily in the cold, grey dinginess of every other damn season.

I'm in east Anglia, and we've had a brilliant summer, few days of rain here and there, but generally sunny, and it started early.

So I'm happy for autumn to be here, but agree its mostly damp rather than crisp, I love the whole run up to Christmas, but yeah, Jan and Feb are shit

Summer is my absolute favourite. The hotter the better.

But it's been such a wash out this year that I'm looking forward to it ending and not having any hope for a scorcher. A bit of closure.