To find August( especially mid-August) a sad affair?

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I can't put my finger on it but I always feel depressed in August. June on the other hand is the perfect month.

I also hate it
I remember reading it’s a terrible month for domestic violence.

Don't trim everything too far back - the birds/insects can feast on seeds/berries etc until lmid to late November! 😊

God - really?? How bloody awful.

@DBSFstupid well to be specific, it is the month where most family annihilations take place. Possibly a little dark for a lighthearted thread but there you have it.

Thanks for the reply!
I wonder if the pressure cooker of the school holidays/actual holidays and being stuck with each other just boils over...

Exactly and I think it can be a very difficult time financially.

Sorry but I love it. It's warm and relaxed and there's no frenetic activities to keep up with. I hate February.

I totally get this.
I feel down, my kids are another school year older, heck one of them has finished altogether this year.

I always feel nostalgic about summer holidays gone by.
And back to work is looming (teacher)
Plus Summer is drawing to a close.

When working I always felt depressed after the August bank holiday. Thinking "that's it now until Christmas". .

You sound ridiculous and embarrassing

‘Jasmin’ 😂
I can see it now, @GoTigers in his mum’s conservatory watching the next door neighbour’s warm skin by the open french doors!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You’re right! Fewer bees too.

It’s very dry here dry here (Suffolk) - leaves are falling already.

Me too. Bloody love autumn and you have a point; fewer LARPers at large.

Sorry if I'm thick, I don't understand LARPers, and even less so after googling

That's a perfectly normal response to them, tbh.

Agree, what a load of utter twaddle

Oh stop being mean you lot!

I always feel like this.

Im one of the underground movement who really enjoys having the kids at home over summer.

End of summer always feels like that song in Mamma Mia where she sings about time "slipping through my fingers all the time ". 😥

Wow.
Love Autumn and Winter, get depressed with
Spring (since childhood).
March is really a month where I have to keep it together. ☹️🤔

I’ve been thinking of this thread all day OP! Autumn seems to have arrived here in NI - rainy, stormy weather, dusk at 8pm and leaves already falling off the trees.

So depressing considering we haven’t even had a summer this year 😞

I’d usually agree but this has been a lovely warm, sunny August (although grey today atm). I think
because the nice weather started late it feels different this year.

I’m off work this week and away on holiday next week (uk one). The nights drawing in are becoming very noticeable though.

Live Action Role Playing

Essentially, they are re-enactors but I was reading about one of the groups at a local joust we visited recently, and they call themselves a Medieval Fighting Team.

Yes the sun is setting at just after 8pm now, I turned the lights on at quarter to nine last night and it was already dark. There's no gentle sunsetting it just gets dark really quickly, all of a sudden I'm sat in the dark.

And it's dark at 5am when I get up to let the cat out.

It's starting to feel like early autumn which I suppose it will be in a week.

I like August...I always try to coincide my visits to Italy in the summer to include 15th August which is the biggest bank holiday in Italy (I'm there right now)

August in the UK isn't as fun because it's usually started raining a lot by then...June and July are the best summer months in the UK imo. Its a shame the schools break up so late.