Fucking winter

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AIBU or is it just shit for six months of the year from Oct to March? Kids perpetually ill. Grumpy husband who doesn't want to spend a dime and gets crap presents on the cheap which no-body likes. Cold and rain, no fucking money and bloody Christmas to get through with annoying relatives who you have to be polite to. Everyone at work seems to want to do even more as soon as the winter strikes, no-one's got any positive energy to do it. The constant cycle of D&V, heavy colds and tonsillitis, constantly surrounded by screaming children. IT SUCKS!!!!!! Can't go out anywhere cos one of the kids is ALWAYS vomiting. And the weather's absolutely SHITE. I think humans should just go into a state of hibernation for this part of the year. AIBU?

I have to go to a park pretty much every day and they are beautiful.

Yes. So lovely! It was drizzling at. 45 degree angle in the park this morning. Just beautiful, crisp and lovely.

Not.

I was countering of the pp that only the countryside was pretty. If you think that’s trite well

My walk certainly didn't help my sodding mood one bit.

Look up

More amazing insights from the only person who's ever had the idea of going for a walk or 'looking up' (WTF).

I'm really looking forward to looking up and getting a faceful of rain.

Can't you go and patronise some other support group?

Where? Into the fucking grey drizzly miserable sky?

Middle go on you can do it or is your head springing up and down

It’s grey and not as pleasant as it could be but London isn’t bereft if beautiful colours in Autumn

🙄

Still too high ;

But enjoy

The endless rain is not bloody invigorating we are quite flooded here. How is that invigorating? Maybe if we needed the rain. But we don’t.

It’s not beautiful at the moment. So don’t try that tripe. It’s murky, it’s grey, it’s muddy, the leaves are all sodden. Just awful and you can’t dress it up. Yes look up in to the rainy grey sky? Fantastic, I’ll try that. That’ll help.

I hate the autumn and winter - except those days when it is dry and cold. Sunny is best but not this eternal drizzle we have had.

My asthma is always worse this time of year too - and have had 2 lots of steroids already. Roll on spring

So far we've had the following suggested as a way of dealing with they grey, dismal, darkness.

A magic snuggling blanket.
Snapping out of it.
Looking up.
Boosting your immune system.

Fucks sake. The only thing which is going to make the days LESS DARK is the Solstice.

Pineapple ever thought of leaving for a more agreeable solstice?

That's just so easy, isn't it? Uprooting two adults with jobs, elderly parents, and three kids from their education.

We'd all love to fuck off to the Caribbean each winter for the duration. However, for all manner of practical reasons that's not an option for most. You can't see how your twee little platitudes are winding struggling people up, can you Marsha??

Why don't you go onto a thread about depression and share your wisdom there. I'm sure they'll appreciate a chippy "look up!"

I don’t think it’s twee to suggest that London is not some grey big city that is bereft of a nice park.

If people read it as an attack on their approach to winter then well then that’s them.

I get it, I hate summer in the same way people hate winter but it's not socially acceptable to say so as everyone is want to enjoy summer.

I have chronic illnesses and the damp cold months are just grim. I spend most of them sat on the sofa in pain.
Roll on Spring!

Illness, annoying relatives and a grumpy husband would finish me off too OP, at least when the suns shining and its warm it seems easier to tune it all out and go outside and do something else.

There's moments of cosiness in winter but hours and days of getting in each others way.

@SoupDragon @PineappleDanish

'Marsha' is very clearly on a wind-up.

I don’t think it’s twee to suggest that London is not some grey big city that is bereft of a nice park.

Literally no one has said anything about it. What kind of complete idiot would be unaware of the existence of parks in London? You're just making shit up now. Don't you have something better to do? There are probably some fat people who've never thought of eating less and moving more. Why not go and share your wisdom with them?

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor I get it, I hate summer in the same way people hate winter but it's not socially acceptable to say so as everyone is want to enjoy summer.

On the contrary, MN is full of whingeing threads in the summer but I don't care because I can go outside and do stuff. I certainly don't come on to those threads and say "have you ever thought about wearing fewer clothes? maybe drink a cold drink!!!!! thank me later!!!!"

I guess if I was in a big city and didnt get the chance to experience the changes

I was responding to this.

From a pp I didn’t have time to copy and paste I do now so there it is

Reading the rest of your post I can see your fury is unleashed though. Just I don’t know don’t worry about it so much.

It’s odd that in the northern hemisphere people are overwhelmingly most likely to commit suicide in the spring, when the weather and the world are at their most pleasant, rather than during the most challenging and dreary months. It’s probably easier to muster up the energy then, or maybe everything external has improved but you realise the problem is within.