Dull days like today! AIBU

[girlfriend44]

Raining all day and Cold!
AIBU to wish it was Summer.😮

Does the weather affect your mood?

I bought one of those daylight SAD lamps yesterday for this very reason. £20 off in Boots

Yep. When it continues it tends to get a lot of my friends down. BUT I can take the opportunity to snuggle under a sofa blanket and watch a film(s) drinking buckets of hot tea.

I'm obsessed with it, winter is my favourite time of year and I love grey days like this. They're a great excuse to stay in cosy and snug with family. We've got the log burner going, some nice music on, dogs snoring away on their beds, DD is having a bash at making us all pancakes and we're going to all snuggle up on the sofa eating pancakes and playing a boardgame together.

Not everyone's cup of tea I realise, but I love a gloomy day. Was raised on a Welsh hill farm tbf so gloom and grey and drizzle is in my blood.

Wish it was Summer. Hate crap Winter Days.

I love the sun, and the long days, but god I hate the heat. I’d rather have a dull, dingy, cold day than a heatwave. Whenever it’s like this, I think back to that 40 degree nightmare. For me that kind of heat is torture. I prefer anything to that - rain, snow, frost, anything.

I know what you mean about the darkness. This gloom does lower my mood. But I find it much worse in towns and cities. The suburbs look foul on days like this. The countryside, on the other hand, looks beautiful in all weathers. Even drizzle can be beautiful and atmospheric, especially when the leaves are as pretty as they have been this Autumn. My dream is to have a big house in the country with a log fire. I’d love to go for a walk through woods and fields on a day like this, then come home, make a pot of tea, throw some logs on the fire, and read (preferably something atmospheric and old worldly, like M R James or Dickens or Sherlock Holmes). Sadly, the countryside near me is disappearing under a sea of vile new build estates.

The weather never used to affect my mood, but now (in my forties) it does if we get endless rain.

I have spent the morning standing in mud, watching my son play football. Now he is having a playdate where we have had to venture out in the mud to use up some energy. I should be cleaning mud off a dozen pairs of shoes right now

I'm not even a summer person and being Irish I should be immune to rain but... enough already.

It’s a lovely sunny, crisp, cold day here, as was yesterday, better weather than we got in July and August. I like the seasons but too much rain, darkness and greyness in the daytime can get me down.

But I find it much worse in towns and cities.

Wow, I feel the opposite! I am never so glad to live in London as when I look out a train window at bleak sodden fields under a gloomy darkening sky.

I’m counting the days til Shortest Day, then DD’s birthday (Feb) and then til the first irises and daffs poke their heads up. I honestly feel like I’m in limbo until then. I’m a total summer person, often feel I was born in the wrong country.

Curled up with several dogs, we’re not so cold snuggling together, but we are still cold. Not entering my favourite time of year.

Mind you, yesterday was gorgeous.

I love days like this, but I don't have children to entertain so I suspect I may feel differently if I did!

Cold, rainy Sundays are spent relaxing, eating good food, watching TV, napping and just generally recharging. I love them.

I hate the grey. Don't mind the cold but wish it could be bright and clear in the winter as the dull days do get me down. Counting down the days until spring.

At the moment, I don’t mind. We have beautiful autumn colours, it’s not that cold and we have party season and Christmas to look forward to. No, it’s the biting cold of January and February, cold that worms it’s way through the thickest gloves; combined with paying off Christmas and no hope of Spring for two months. That I s when it gets too much.

Bloody love days like this. Did some exercise, supermarket, a load of food prep. Then a glass of wine and reading the papers in bed. And a snooze.

I have got teens so no pressure to engage with anyone.

I struggle mentally every winter, and it’s starting early for me this year. I usually cope up until Christmas but my mood is already plummeting. I do what you are supposed to do, walk every day (I’ve got a dog so no choice), go to yoga and Pilates, eat healthily etc but none of it helps 🤷‍♀️

Like pp mud is a big issue, muddy dog, and ds who is in a football team. Mud and constant laundry make me feel like a drudge.

It’s typical November weather, dull anticyclonic gloom. Starts to get dark at 3:30pm. I hate it - give me a cold, frosty, crisp sunny day and I’m fine. I think it’s the dark of winter that gets me down, far more than the cold.

I cope by thinking it’s far worse in parts of Scandinavia where for nearly two months they see no daylight - which must be hell - plus in another month’s time, it’ll be the shortest day and then the days start drawing out again.

I find November and December much harder to get through. Once it’s January, I feel spring is just around the corner.

I couldn't find one in our local Boots

I can cope with shitty weather but I'm struggling with the dark.

Currently watching a film snuggled with my dogs. I feel less guilty about being a generally lazy person in autumn/winter as in spring/summer I feel I should be out and about more and doing more generally due to the longer daylight hours. When it's 'night' at 5pm I can wind down earlier and have more relaxation time.

Rain does, and I would have year round BST given the choice.

I got it online, it's the Beurer one.

Hunkering under blankets is tedious.
I generally like walking but trudging through mud and slimy leaves playing dodge the camo-dog shit is not the best for walking.
Gloom quenches my motivation, and there's a limit to how many Red Bulls you can drink as part of a healthy lifestyle.

Roll on March with the spring bulbs and the mud starts drying out.

I am consoling myself that it won't be getting any darker from 5 weeks time.

I'm finding this autumn harder than average because we only had a couple of weeks of summer back in June before it got washed away.

I was trying to work out which was the least worst option; giving in and putting the lamps on or stoically holding out until 4pm out of principle.

I've actually loved it today. We are warm and cozy with a nice dinner on the go, doing some Christmas planning. I absolutely loathe my house and I've never felt at home here but today I did a bit and it's do with the bit of hibernation we are doing today I think .

I hate it too. I didn’t mind yesterday as it was cold but bright sunshine and I had a great run in the morning and lovely dog walk. Today had been hideous, freezing cold and raining for DS’s Remembrance Day parade. Now it’s 4:30 and pretty much dark but there’s hours to kill before bed time. The dog does want to snuggle but he’s still wet from his walk so it’s not exactly comforting.

I don’t understand why anyone would want to spend the day sitting about and eating when they could be out and about having fun in the sun!

I'm fine with it so far as it's a novelty still and yesterday was glorious, with even a little warmth from the sun. By January it's a different story. I cope with vit D supplements and walks in the daylight. Plus now I'm able to, swapping my summer holiday abroad to the UK winter months.