AIBU to get pissed off with all the Autumn and Winter "cosy" people

[Alicatz66]

Now that the evenings are getting darker I feel sad that summer is ending .. and pissed off with the "cosy" people !! I hate winter .. what is "cosy" about bumbling about in the dark and scraping ice off your car, getting fat with stodgy food , seeing all the shit sentimental Christmas TV adverts and being pale , corpse like and with drizzled on hair !!! .. this is light hearted but I just don't get it ! .... I've stayed away from the " We hate summer" threads as instructed as they were not for me ... so now it's my turn !!

I have come to the conclusion I don't even like the food or the drink

Mulled wine and hot chocolate. I tried once but never again.

As for fried apple it sounds awful.

We are a tiny family. So no huge family get togethers. Dmil and bil don't celebrate Christmas and we are over it DC are growing up. I think we are spending Christmas in the desert this year.

Don't celebrate Halloween, Lent or Easter and never heard of Carnival.

My heating has already gone on.

Hateful 9 months I think it was a hateful 10 months.

Don't notice the seasons. It is just grey and cold or grey and freezing with a bit of rain occasionally and then we have the week of snow where we can't get out the driveway and every one is frustrated.

Add to that arthritis and after the sun disappears behind a grey curtain it is thoroughly miserable

Grey drizzle, short dull days. Hateful 9 months

Where do you live that it’s grey and drizzly for 9 months?!

It's grey and drizzly for most of the time where I live - edge of Pennines, South Yorkshire. This summer has been the exception though. We don't get the kind of New England autumns that autumn lovers romanticise about. They really are grey and drizzly.

Our last winter lasted about 7 months as we seemed to leap straight from summer into winter, then straight from winter into summer. We had no spring to speak of really. It snowed at Easter.

I was up in north Lancashire at the weekend and it was completely grey and ds kept having to wipe his face because it was constantly getting wet because of the fine drizzle.

Even down south last August it was raining and or cold and grey from 1st August and remained that way till June.

I know people in the area who don't even notice it so I am wondering if there isn't a bit of selective memory or they are so used to it the reality fades away.

The last few years we’ve had gorgeous Septembers and Octobers, it wasn’t coat weather until mid-November last year.

Certainly the prevalent theme of Autumn/winter wasn’t drizzle.

Where do you live Jacques?
Previous year's autumns have been warmer than usual, but last year was miserable and cold. DD and I were doing many uni open days and my memories are of walking around damp, grey and rain sodden campuses (mainly in the north of England, but also a very wet open day in Bristol)

I love the start of Autumn, going back into socks and jumpers and I'm ok with it all until Christmas as we have Halloween and bonfire night to enjoy but post 25 December it's all grim until spring - can't stand jan and Feb, they're the most depressing months of the year!

West Yorks/North Yorks border. Very high up.

I don’t mind Feb, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and the 6 Nations starts!

It's rare to have constant grey and drizzle during the winter months- and I live in Scotland.
Normally there are quite a lot of high pressure systems too,, blue skies and starry nights.
I hang my laundry out all year round, even with frost outside it can still be dry.
I also celebrate festivals throughout the year, Christmas. Easter, Halloween, but other less well known ones too like Imbolc and Mabon- I decorate my house and make special meals.
Christmas /Midwinter celebrations start around the 1st of December, I like January because it brings the harshest snow.
I also find January a very relaxing month, once christmas is over and decorations put away it;s a time to clear up. clean the house, no pressure to organise things, time for myself.

As for fried apple it sounds awful.

It's a pretty traditional autumn dish where I grew up. They're called apple rings or apple cakes...

Where I'm at it's currently still about 29/30 degrees (with a temporary temperature dip tomorrow and finally more rain!) and may stay quite sunny and warm until September. Winter can obviously be very cold and snowy. (Which is always better than soggy, which may happen as well...)

You are further East from me Jacques which makes a huge difference in terms of grey skies, rain and drizzle.

You are further East from me Jacques which makes a huge difference in terms of grey skies, rain and drizzle

Well indeed. Which is why I asked where people lived because obviously not everyone has the same weather all the time.

Even Manchester isn’t the rain-besoaked horror it is made out to be

Like where I was at the weekend Manchester isn't about how much rain it has it is about how damp it is.

From my understanding it was the centre for Cotton manufacturing because to stop the Cotton getting "sticky" or stuck together you had to have a moist atmosphere it is not how many centimetres of rain there is but the atmosphere you are living in

Another January loved here. Mainly because Xmas is over.I don't hate it it ,but each year dislike more and more November and the relentless build up to it.That is my low point.I love the peace and quiet of January -literally as DH for years gives up alcohol and the snoring stops!I love hunkering down knowing snowdrops and spring are around the corner.Yes some years are worse,last winter was grim and working outdoors the rain and relentless mud got me down.The plus side of being outside is that the minute the clouds part and the sun comes out I see it,and remember going to work and returning in the dark which makes winter less tolerable I agree.But I adore the seasons and variety of our weather,and often think if we think it's tough now what was it like for the vast majority in draught old cottages,pre gortex clothing and central heating.I even have an app on my phone to pre heat my latest car so really feel grateful.

Yes January is fab.

Tidy house, no rushing around preparing stuff, buying presents.

It's a time to clear the house, clear the mind, eat health things, exercise more, a time for short brisk walks and some introspection, some reading, I find January the most relaxing month of the year!

Team Summer all the way.

I have Raynauds - cold months are miserable. Even though I'm ghostly pale and English I looooooooooooooooooooove just wearing summer dresses and flashing my faintly-blue legs around Autumn is damp and grey and miserable. Winter is the same but colder.

I do like Christmas, but the rest of it can just bugger off, frankly. I'd take 10 months pf glorious summer and then Christmas, if i could.

Bake off on the telly
Heating on all snuggly
Jumpers and cosy feet
Warm coats and hats
Not feeling guilty about cakes and pie

Halloween fun and bonfire
What's not too like.

Err all of the above.
Heating on?? It costs an absolute fortune. So I don’t take pleasure in that.
Halloween is crap, one night doesn’t make up for 7 months of dreary weather.
I don’t want to eat cakes and pies and put on a load of weight.
My feet are freezing most of the time unlike in summer.

Love the optimism of spring being round the corner in January! There’s 3 more months of freezing weather ahead. March is normally colder than December...

Looking forward to the school run with a woolly hat so I don't have to blow dry my hair!

Delatron. You can't be doing it right then

I love Autumn - but all these people who talking about running in the Autumn leaves, do you actually do that? I pretty much thought that was something you would only do if you are in a sweater catalogue.

Yes, we do. We love spending time in forests and woods, we have a local 'groundworks' conservation place, which is filled with trees, woodland creatures, mud kitchens. And we love to visit our local cemetery to collect fallen conkers, collect blackberries and make jam......ahhhh :D

I love to walk through autumn leaves. Unfortunately there is the risk of treading in something a dog has left behind.

Conker Jam !!!!