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?

It really wasn’t. In my work I track the weather. August in particular was disappointing until the bank holiday weekend.

You may remember warm days in July. We had a couple of weeks. We had one heatwave day on June 29th and that one really hot 34 degree day on July 26th the day the schools broke up. Went downhill after that.

Yes I'm in a pit of misery. in the past month I've had dd2 multiple ear infections, hospital admission suspected sepsis from ear, vomiting, another hospital visit for ear.
Dd1, cough, cold, vomiting, now tonsilitis.

I'm on day 10 of a virus and feel shit. Deaf and knackered and May be getting the tonsilitis.

Dd2 getting grommets fitted on 9th. I can't feel excited about Christmas until I see if that works. Constant ear infections for 3 years now.

Bring on summer.

I completely agree, it’s currently as miserable and depressing as fuck.

I’m working on a client site at the moment, in the past 3 days I have driven 450 miles in the rain, a grand total of 14 hours. I have seen no fewer than 20 vehicles involved in accidents because of the weather. And no public transport is not an option.

I need to look presentable at work so can’t go for a lunch time walk, it’s constantly pissing it down and I have barely seen daylight.

I hate winter. I hate being cold, wet, having shit hair, never seeing daylight and I hate snuggling.

It's all relative, I reckon. Last year was my worst Christmas ever - I miscarried on actual Christmas Day, ffs - after weeks of in/out of hospital. DH had terrible vomity flu so he just lolled about like a corpse and my 2.5yo wanted to be perpetually entertained....

Anyway this year I feel like a Phoenix rising from the ashes of last year's hell. I'm actually wearing a Christmas jumper right now (yes! in November) and totally embracing it.

The weather is shit, mind.

“It was boiling most of the time down in London. I was quite pleased to see a bit of rain at last but even then it wasn't cold”

Sorry Bluerussian I am going to shout now WE DON’T ALL LIVE IN LONDON

I really think we sould give our location when we have weather threads because the variation in temperatures around the UK is massive.

Yes the weather does vary tremendously in this country. It was weird when the weather changed at some point in August and there was suddenly torrential rain but it wasn't for long, then it returned to hot again for a while.

Well it has certainly cooled down a lot over the past few days and been raining but it is nearly the end of November so I suppose we have to accept that winter is imminent. I have to say, though, that it hasn't really been jumper wearing weather in the winter in recent years. I have a pile of lovely unworn jumpers!

The Beast from the East didn't affect London two years ago then?

DD had more snow days off school the winter before last than all through her time at secondary school. Last winter was very mild, but was still jumper weather.

Winter update from Birmingham.. rain .. dark.. grim.. with predictions for a crushed commute and a battle with the slow walkers pondering around the German Market when I go out to get lunch !!!!

Winter is horrible. I am sick of it already and it isn't even winter. We had a rubbish summer too.

Dark, wet and grey. Being 'cosy' is all well and good if you don't have to go to work or leave the house. Getting in the car, or walking to work early in the morning is horrible. Going home in the dark and cold is horrible.

Endless months of grey and wet. And once Christmas is over you have skint, fat and dull January to get through.

Crispy leaves?? Soggy leaves more like! Leaves, is that right? It looks like it should be leafs?

Hope it improves, Alicatz. It's super foggy in Glasgow this morning but Gail on the BBC weather assures me that's going to disappear and be bright and sunny by lunchtime.

We'll see. have one child off school with a horrible cold/flu bug thing, she's lain in her bed for the last 48 hours and can't even muster the energy to Snapchat her friends. Must be serious.

Norovirus is doing the rounds locally. Oh joy

DD describes what she has as "norovirus" but it's really not. No vomiting for a start. Has hit badly at school though, 80 off out of the 200 in her year.

Glad I had my flu jab!

I hate snuggling

Glad I had my flu jab! yes, me too. I insist that the whole family has it every year and I'm sure it helps. Last year several DC at school got flu and were really ill with it and missed loads of school - and all for want of getting either the nasal spray (free on the NHS to many school DC these days, not just ones in high risk groups), or the jab for those who don't quality (DS1 has never qualified, but he has the jab every year for the princely sum of £12 and has never had flu in his life as a result).

Grey here again today and drizzling (home counties). Roll on spring!

DD is too old for the flu vaccine at school - it's only given to under 12s in Scotland and she's 15. My younger boy was meant to have it last month but still hasn't - apparently there's some huge delay in supplies of the nasal vaccine. Much later and it won't be worth it!

I really don't get the appeal of sitting under a blanket. Who wants to do that??

I love you @PineappleDanish !!!
I don't want to sit under a blanket either ... I want my flip flops on

I like blankets but it's not properly cold is it? Just chilly and fucking damp. I'm in Cornwall. We barely saw the sun in the summer and it's non stop rain all autumn.. howling wind too. I mean, I'm Cornish, I know that rain and wind are constant features here and I usually embrace it but it's taking a toll this year. I have a three year old and am seven months pregnant. Toddler has been ill since September. Husband fell off slippery ladder while trying to mend leaky roof and broke his ankle. Thus I have been running around after both of them, unable to sleep, unable to go out as it's always fucking raining in a sideways, drenching way, and blowing DD about on her bike, forced to spend hours playing pretend and making husband coffee instead. I can't even face going up into the loft to see if the roof's still leaking, if it is, fuck it, I'm not dealing. I've had to call in to DD's nursery today to say she can't come in again, so I can't do any work and she will be climbing the walls through lack of exercise.

And being pregnant, I can't do the ONLY thing that would be enjoyable in this weather, which is go out to a pub with a roaring fire and drink 5 or 6 pints till I'm so drunk I can walk home without feeling the rain!

I genuinely hibernate in winter. I usually get in from work, eat food and go to sleep about 7pm. In the summer I'm the total opposite - hardly sleep at all. I don't have SAD as I am not depressed but my body clock is very responsive to the changing daylight.

My body is really responsive to the changing light too. From the moment it gets dark (about 4) I start to feel tired and sleepy. When my alarm goes off in the dark it feels like the middle of the night and it’s just awful. In summer I spring out of bed and have so much more energy.

Yabu, well a bit. I love the run up to Christmas, and I don't mind the cold and wet, infact I prefer it. January and February can fuck off though, most depressing time of the year. My birthday is March that usually cheers me up a bit.

Finding the dark afternoons and wet days a struggle this year

roll on spring.

Yellow warning for rain here yet again (sigh)

I like the dark and damp and cold.
I am miserable April- end of September.

I don't think all this constant warning about weather helps either.
we didn't used to have all this rubbish.
Yellow warning for rain, in December who'd have thought
Yes, warn against the unusual or severe weather.

@MarshaBradyo I think you (and a few others on this thread) are very dismissive of the depth of the pain and suffering that a lot of us go through.

I have Raynaud's syndrome, severe anaemia and a very slow heart rate (bradycardia). All of these are made far worse by the cold weather and I have in the past found myself actually sobbing with the pain of the cold in my fingers when they go white and numb. (I say this as someone with lots of tattoos who's given birth with no pain relief - I have a high pain threshold)

And yes, I wear two pairs of gloves, including silver ones, take iron supplements and exercise a lot, daily, so please don't try to patronise me any further with 'advice'.

I can just about deal with the misery and gloom that we have at the moment but at least it's mild. Once the cold sets in, i will be one of the many people for whom being outside leads quite quickly to severe pain.

You really need to try to have a bit more empathy and stop dismissing and minimising other people's suffering.