...to not like Summer?

[Dollygirl2008]

Just that really. I feel fat so the thought of having to ditch the oversized jumpers and boots makes me shudder. It's too bright, I've permanently got my sunnies on and everyone makes me feel like I should be "loving it"!!! I'm more of a cosy, candles and fairy lights type person and I literally feel down when the clocks change for Summer time!

My favourite time of year is Halloween as it's the run up to Christmas which I just love! Dark nights and cosy fires!!!!!

Help me enjoy the summer months - maybe I should just lose some weight??

I love it! Each to their own eh?

I don't like being in direct sunlight; it makes my eyes hurt.
I don't like it when the temperature goes over 20 degrees C.
I don't like it when the birds start singing at some ungodly hour of the morning.
I don't like the imposition of other people's music blaring from their gardens.
I don't like having to cover myself in suncream before going outside for any length of time.
I don't like the way any sweat from anywhere on my body seems to accumulate in my crotch.
I get hayfever and pollen makes me wheeze.
I react badly to insect bites.

But most of all, I hate the pressure to be outside "making the most of it." I can cope with being outside when it's cool, cloudy and breezy. Being outside when it's hot and sunny makes me uncomfortable, overwhelmed and grumpy.

It took me a while to recover from that horrendous heatwave we had last year, which took a lot of the joy out of our family holiday (Northern France, Belgium).

I feel a bit cheated that we haven't really had a 'proper' winter with a length cold spell.

And now the warm weather is starting earlier than it was supposed to.

We've booked to go to Northern Ireland this summer, so hopefully it won't be as bad as our last summer holiday.

I'm feeling slightly better now I've got all that off my chest.
Thank you, OP.

OP I could have written your post!!!

I’ve never been a sun/heat worshiper so have always hated summer! Hate feeling constantly sweaty, not being able to cool down, hate that it brings all manner of insects into the house that make my (sweaty) skin crawl, hate the blinding sun through the windows, hate being fat and having to have skin on show, avoiding activities in places that don’t have air conditioning... I too hate the clocks going forward as it signals that I have months of hell coming up. I am then always waiting for September as I love the months leading up to Christmas...dark, cold nights snuggled up. You can’t beat it!

I don't like summer, but YABVU for starting this thread in April.

I enjoy weather like today.
I despise being roasted alive; last summer was the absolute pits for me.

Crunchymum 🙋🏻‍♀️ - me too! 😫😔 Makes an already unbearable season even more unbearable... 😠

I prefer spring and autumn to summer. Warm sunshine is lovely, 18-22C suits me, but mid 20s upwards feels oppressive to me. I struggle with sleeping at the best of times, so the humid nights last year were a bit trying at times.

The other downside to summer is the amount of selfish and antisocial behaviour that seems to have become the norm now - overly loud garden parties, smoky barbecues in small gardens which mean nobody can open their windows or dry washing outside, kids screaming until 10pm and drunken adults having loud conversations outside till the early hours, people driving around with windows down and music playing at high volume... the list is endless really. There are many people who are totally thoughtless as to the impact their behaviour has on others, and summer weather seems to bring out the worst in them. So yes, summer has its drawbacks, especially in suburbia where you are surrounded by neighbours.

Don't worry OP, I don't think we'll get a repeat of last year's heatwave in a hurry. In my lifetime there have only been two extremely hot summers; 1976 and 2018, so if that pattern continues the next one will happen around 2060! ☺

Yes summer is hard work.

I prefer a sunny 20 degrees, then cool evenings. Where you need a nice wrap on or something to snuggle under of an evening.

Can't be doing with the humidity etc faffing with suncream etc. I just hide in the air con.

Blah

Oh god yes the midges. I forgot about those fuckers.

I like Summer for BBQs and sitting outdoors on balmy evenings

For wearing huge sunglasses and nobody really seeing my face

For painted toes and sandals

I don't like it :

for my pale veiny skin and feeling I have to shave

For sleepless nights with menopausal hot sweats

For thinking we have to be out 'doing stuff' when I'd like to laze about on the PC or watching box sets

I can't run in the heat and my fitness drops off a cliff

Summer evenings are wonderful. Particular kind of light and even a smell that I love.

I hibernate in winter. So it's nice to have a life come back.

I wouldn't be bothered by people saying they don't like summer if it weren't for the fact that I'm frequently told on here that I'm a miserable fucker for loathing winter and getting no joy from dark evenings, snuggling under blankets, frosty mornings, autumn leaves and snow.

I don't think you're acclimatised to the month you're born in. My birthday is in January and my favourite time of year has always been summer. In fact I used to joke at work about swapping birthdays with colleagues fortunate enough to have birthdays in June!

I hate summer too!

I wouldn't be bothered by people saying they don't like summer if it weren't for the fact that I'm frequently told on here that I'm a miserable fucker for loathing winter and getting no joy from dark evenings, snuggling under blankets, frosty mornings, autumn leaves and snow.

Totally agree with you. If you don't like summer then fine, up to you. But given that most of us live in the UK where the balance of the year is most definitely swung towards the grey, wet, cold and windy, it seems odd to complain about decent weather between may and august. And not every day between may and august.

If you dare voice that you loathe the darkness of winter, and that November and December are hell on earth, you get all these people piling in to talk about blankets, and "hot choccie" on the sofa, and twinkling fairy lights and other twee little "cosy" things which THEY enjoy but they don't have the basic intelligence to understand that for many of us, the start of winter is a profoundly depressing time.

It's rather early to have a thread moaning about the summer! Today is just glorious, I look out the window and it's beautiful out there, my garden looks great, what's not to like...

Personally I loathe winter. A couple of my american friends were asking what it's like weather wise once summer is over - my answer was "grey grey grey". That just about sums it up for me. It's miserable to have about 7 months of the year where it's cold, damp, drizzly (with the odd sunny day thrown in).

I am hoping for a summer like last year. I come alive. Less make up. Prettier clothes. Bare legs. Less sleep needed because I can't wait to get up and get outside. All this snuggling up on the sofa watching a film nonsense. I can do that at 11pm on a Friday night in the summer if I want!

However, in the winter I can't do gardening, I can't sit outside in the dappled sunlight, I can't meet friends in the pub garden for a glass of chilled white wine, I can't go outside at 8am to do a spot of gardening. I just need to hibernate in the winter.

Fortunately for you there will probably be about 2 days in June that are hot or something. Last year's decent weather was probably a one off. For me winter sucks. The horrible weather, the ugly uncomfortable clothes, the germs and illnesses, poor light levels, depression, confined to the house from 4pm. A good summer means we can get out and do things, go places, burn energy off. I'd honestly rather spend a day at the park or beach in the sun, picnic set up, stay until 8pm etc. Would anyone seriously prefer to be there with it lashing with rain and wind, mud all churned up, DC freezing cold and miserable? It might be warm enough to go out without a jacket this weekend 🤞🏻

It's a simple thing. If you're too hot and uncomfortable however 'early' it's perceived to be, then you're too hot and uncomfortable! It's an individual thing. I am dreading summer and if this weekend goes over about 21 degrees, I will find it TOO hot and uncomfortable. But must I pretend I am not because it's 'only April' ?

I hate the smug look on the weather People’s faces when they show high temps on the charts. I'm in the south east so we tend to get it hotter as well sometimes.
My face drops a mile and I'm told to cheer up! Grr!

21 degrees is too cool for me

If I'm hot at night I use a fan. If I need a breeze, I open windows and doors that give me a through breeze. I wear cotton and linens that lets the skin breathe.

I do find it a bit unbearable in London when it's really hot, I'll give you that. It's all that concrete and people, I'm more used to open spaces

If I had my way, the year would go like this:

March
April
May
June
September
October
November
December

Hate the heat, but also hate what I call the 'mud months' - January and February. Today (Good Friday) is about as bright and sunny as I want it to get - I quite like a bit of moderate warmth and greenery on the trees, but after June everything starts looking tired and dusty. Including me!

YANBU I can't stand it. It's too light, too early and doesn't get dark while late. Makes kids restless and reluctant to go to bed. Buses are like greenhouses, I have to seek shade everywhere. Going anywhere in the car is horrible. Can't sleep properly

I love summer. It's more likely to be dry and it's more likely to be warm, even sometimes verging on hot. Even though I get some hay fever, and if it's proper hot (high 20s upwards) I get hot and sticky, and need shade I just much prefer it.

It's not even as if we get that many hot days in the UK, but it's so much more pleasant.

I have arthritis - damp cold weather is painful and I have to take more medication in winter than in summer. I like not living in the fun of high dose pain killers for a few weeks,

Fug not fun!