To say I love summer but I can't wait for the darker days

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I usually love summer but the last few weeks I've found myself wishing for darker days. I wake up in the morning and the sun/ light is beaming in. I might as well be sleeping outside. I want cosy snuggles in my duvet with snow outside. But I also want to feel the sun on my face.

@10HailMarys

i think people get irritated because in the UK we get way more winter than summer. So when people complain about summer and wish it was winter it feels people are wishing away a precious few days that a lot of people wish were more

think people get irritated because in the UK we get way more winter than summer. So when people complain about summer and wish it was winter it feels people are wishing away a precious few days that a lot of people wish were more

But their wish for it to be winter has no impact on you, or anyone else. Literally none. Wishing away the summer doesn't actually make summer go away.

Someone likes a different thing to you. So what?

@10HailMarys

i dunno, it just irritates me!

I just think…you get your wish for cold, dark and rainy about 300 days of the year so pipe down!!

I agree! Give me a cosy jumper and log fire any day! I can’t wait for Xmas! 🎅 Also, the countryside is too overgrown in summer for half the walks I enjoy in winter.

I had to double take this. We haven't had any summer, the weathers been shocking !

Buy some black out lining for your curtains.

No summer here yet either!

The odd random lovely day here (west midlands), but it’s all been rain or cloud. My house is still bloody freezing a lot of the time too.

I don't share the same view as you OP. If we were on the same time zone as France it would probably help you as daylight would start an hour later.

The light mornings and evenings energise me. I can go out for a run without worrying about the dark. I hate driving in the dark. I feel claustrophobic when it gets dark at 4pm. I associate ‘cosy snuggling’ with being ill and not something I’d want to do when I feel well and active.

Waking up in the dark feels like the middle of the night and it throws my body clock out. I’d happily hibernate for most of autumn/winter or better, and move to a warm country.

I think the issue with the summer haters is that it is miserable and cold in this country for about 9 months. At least. To be fair if we get 3 weeks of warm sunny weather we’re doing well. Yet for those 3 weeks people still moan!!

I don’t moan in winter, I get on with it. It’s endless and awful but it’s winter. If it gets to June and I am at a festival and I’m cold and have to wear a thick coat and a wolly hat (as per Saturday) or I have to put my heating on in the summer months then that’s a fair moan!! The festival would have been so much more pleasant in warm weather. Not shivering. The street parties would have been more pleasant had it not been raining this weekend...

YABU. The summer hasn't even started! I'm still heading out to work in opaque black tights and a winter coat (and a dress and shoes - in would be a weird outfit without those!)

@Mount2Climb I like your post. Have I got time to get in shape before summer holidays? Wish I'd started a month ago

Embrace the season you're in and be joyful all year round.

Agree that Blocblinds are brilliant.

@Delatron 🙌 Spot on.

Why ? You're trapped in the house. It's hideous.

This! Hate the shorter days

YABVU! 😂

I dread the approaching 21st as it means the days will be getting shorter again. Maybe you will be comforted by that thought!

While I appreciate your sentiment but complaining about long summer days and/or evenings is what we call “party pooper attitude”. British summer is so short and sweet, barely hot compare to continental Europe let alone tropical regions, and to complain about such precious little light and heat we get that is essential to our mental well-being and the vegetation is exasperating to say the least. It’s like being at a party where most are having a good time then proceeds to declare on a platform (aka starting a thread instead of quiet murmurs) about how this party sucks.

I hate the dark evenings.
It's so wonderful to be able to go for a walk after dinner. Sometimes we take a walk to the high street and get ice creams or a dessert.
We might pick up a pizza or fish and chips and take it to the park for a picnic dinner if the weather is ok.
Or just meet friends for an evening walk.
It's just so uplifting and fun.
In the winter, stuck in the house.

The light nights/early mornings can make it harder to sleep as it is also noisier with the birds by about 3/4am however it is my favourite part of summer. Everything is colourful and fresh still, the light evenings mean I get to do more outside after a long day at work so feels like you have more time. I find by August everything is starting to die back and less colour where things are either baked and dry or making seeds/berries and the green starts to look ‘old’. The cold and dark will be back soon enough.

It's not even Summer yet in UK so how can we have had a shit one already?!

Well that depends on your definition of summer - lots of people define it as June, July and August.

Rainy, grey and windy in Scotland today. The winter-lovers will be delighted.

Agree that the lighter evenings give you options. Last week DH and I took a walk to a local nature reserve after 9pm, it was still light, we sat and watched herons, swans and their cygnets, saw the bats come out as the dusk fell. You can't do that in November.

Do you live in a sainsbury’s advert?

People on mumsnet make far too much of idyllic nonsense. All this crunching through frosty leaves and snuggling in your duvet versus tots with their tummies out eating ice dreams and a ‘riot of peonies.’ You don’t live in a kids picture book describing the seasons. Real life is practical. Too bright in the mornings? Get better blinds. Too cold in the winter? Wear a jumper. You don’t need to romanticise every time in the world, just live your life practically and don’t complain about non issues.

Black out blinds plus curtains are your friend! I love Autumn as well but worried this year with all the bad news about.

Blackout blinds? Move to a colder place? Like John O'Groats, not Sweden.

John ogroats would cause more issues for op with the amount of sunlight in summer.

For those that don’t understand.

Imagine in this county you had the weather you don’t like for at least 9 months a year (possibly more). It was over 25 degrees for most days, hot, sunny...

Then for a mere few weeks you finally got some respite. It cooled down and you got your precious dark and dreary and cold. Imagine all those that enjoyed the heat started moaning, saying it’s too cold? It would be annoying even if it didn’t impact you. It’s hard to fathom after months and months and months of all that hot weather they love why they couldn’t just tolerate the very brief change for a few weeks until it goes back to the weather they prefer for another 9 MONTHS.