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 agree op May and June are lovely as we gave the whole summer to enjoy. August sad as the nights are drawing in, condensation starts to show on the windows every morning and some idiots start talking about Christmas.

Is it because the supermarkets are stockpiling Xmas stuff

Tell that to the one that stung me last week! 🐝

Also - there's an orchard next to our house and all the fruit which I associate with autumn has been out for weeks and is turning (in fact all the plums have gone already) - does anyone else feel autumn really is 'early' this year? Climate change? Seasons do seem to be shifting from the months I remember them as being when I was a child.

Hate August. Crispy garden, too many kids with not enough to do and covering others at work. Roll on Sept/ Oct!

I don’t know what month is good for me, I’m completely lost myself.
July is out - DD has additional needs so a lot of things need to be sorting for the new year. I have hay fever so May and June are always terrible for me. By August DD is at home for sometime so I feel a bit tired. And I feel a bit sad after the holiday which is usually end of July - beginning of August.

The weather observations depend where you are

It’s been lovely where I live.

I’d treat it as the spring we missed but it’s actually too warm for that. Definitely feel we are having summer when I didn’t think we would.

weirdly I find the new school year feeling exciting but I don’t have kids and I enjoyed school so that’s why. I hate November and December because it’s the worst of SAD and historically- and looking at the future, Christmas is a bad and lonely time.

I’m relieved to have lovely August weather after spring failed to appear. Spring is usually my favourite.

Dusk is my favourite time of day, autumn my favourite season, so for me, the winding down of the summer feels exciting. I can appreciate that's not how everyone feels, though.

I am grateful I'm not a teacher, though. (Trained for it, realised it wasn't for me, so went in another direction.) I think if I were heading back to the classroom every autumn, it would ruin much of my enjoyment of what is usually the best time of the year for me.

SE here and this August has been gorgeous after a miserable spring and not great June/July.

Been warm for weeks in London, but only stupidly hot for a few days

So perfect for me to take the dogs out to the park

Probably best summer I've ever had with them

Not this year

@HeliotropePJs your name is one of my favourite summer scents. Used to have a perfume. Not including the PJs 😂

I know. It’s been really noticeable. And worrying even Though I hate wasps.

I love August. Quiet at work. Weather is glorious where I am. Light in the morning, light when I walk home.

love it!

August is the sexiest month
Warm skin
French doors open
Light clothing revealing comfortable and hot summer body shapes.
Straps falling off shoulders.
Late night drinks in gardens with failing light.
Jasmin.
The capturing of ‘now’ as the dark of tomorrow approaches.
The most louche of months - 31 days of feeling like you’ve woken after a mid week, off work, afternoon nap. In dappled sun.

Yes I hate wasps but I literally haven't seen a single one and this is my birthday so I really do notice. It's calamitous for the environment if you imagine how all these things fit together. Very worried 🙁

I don't like August because of the heat and the summer holidays etc. I do like it because it's one step closer to September and autumn/winter and cooler temps, next doors teen back at school so she can stop booming music nightly till 3/4am as she has since May because of study leave, Halloween, Christmas etc. I have a medical condition which means I overheat quickly so summer makes me feel even rougher.

Nail on the head.

February - July everywhere feels so full of promise. And then suddenly it’s August and you notice everything is raggedy and there is a slight change to the air. I always hated going back to school and I hate my kids going back (my youngest is actually starting in September and I feel like I’m grieving; stupid I know 😭)

Definitely wasps inside my kitchen window this last heatwave in Hampshire. I've had to catch them and shoo them out.

Defo feeling this esp the comments about Sunday night feels.

This Summer gone tok quick with no good weather. All my Summer outfits unworn.

Feeling a bit hot under the collar!

I also think I’ve retained that from childhood! I’m in my thirties and only now have I started enjoying September. I think it’s because I can now go ahhh I’m not a school. Ooh this is fun.

Yep I can vouch for this as a fellow Hampshire dweller! Garden full of them (a nest actually!)

I don't mind the month, the season or the weather, but I loathe the nights drawing in. I associate dark evenings with a very traumatic time and have to work very hard not to get anxious and melancholy as each day gets shorter.

Hahaha... in an attic flat between the tannery and sweet factory... not so much...

Tell that to the stripy,stingy fucker who stuck his stinger in me the other day😂. I know what you mean though I haven't seen many bees or wasps and the dragonflies were few up the lake this year too.