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

[rewilded]

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

Sounds a bit West Side Story and that was one hot town!

@YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer sending you love, I understand, sadly.

Op I feel the same. The closing nights seem to close around my soul.
The lack of summer has intensified it this year.

I don’t mind the start of august, but as it progresses I start to feel sad about summer ending. When the combine harvesters start driving past my house I know it’s as good as over.

We always have our 2 week summer break the last 2 weeks of august, it’s perfect. If we’re lucky and feeling flush we’ll have a week somewhere at the start of the summer holidays too. But I would never give up my holiday at the end of august. It’s like a final hurrah to summer.

Best month is May, with the summer stretching out in front of you…. apart from this year that is where the only thing in front of us was more and more bloody rain!

Yes I've noticed there's less wasps.

Every month is expectation versus reality. I think this August is just warming up literally and figuratively but in 2 weeks its September and bang..this years summer is over. And I love cheap, easy breezy summer.

This summer is our first in our new house with a big garden on the edge of the countryside and I have been discovering joy after joy this month. The earlier dusk means we are seeing the bats! Our house martins have fledged their last clutch and are exercising their babies ready for their big journey south! The overgrown bottom end of the garden is heavy with blackberries! The bees and butterflies are still about, the cats keep finding sunny patches to snooze in, and the chickens are as lively as ever. I have deeply enjoyed this summer. To me, August is like the swimmer on the edge of the pool waiting for the start of the race, as so much food becomes ripe in gardens and wilderness for foraging. It's exciting to be waiting for the harvest.

The turns of the seasons are all exciting in their own ways.

I'm sad that I didn't get one decent day on the beach this year. Every hot day was either on a weekday or a day when we had so much on and couldn't make it. I lugged a huge rucksack and cooler down to the beach today (Cornish beach so a fucker of a way) and we had to leave after 2 hours as we were all frozen and it started raining.

I need one whole day in blazing sunshine. Minimum 28 degrees to lie on the beach, swim in the sea, cook sausages on a barbecue, and play with the dc. If I get that then I can make it through the winter.

Agree. Summer is dying and we have a long a long slog ahead until spring. Depressing

I've found my people! I thought I was the only one. As soon as it's mid August I feel sad as know summer has ended and winter will soon be with us I love May/June as it's the promise of light evenings and warmer weather.

@GoTigers Spoken like a true size 8, I don't doubt?!

Doesn't really apply to those of us browsing the plus size section. Our straps fall off our shoulders and people scowl.

@renthead August improves no end when you're a retired teacher. I know that mid August feeling very well.

The nights are fair drawing in, as my wee mammy used to say. 😟

Do what?!?

I hate August, it's my least favourite month. I even prefer January to August.
I'm always too hot, I sweat in the daytime and can't sleep at night.
Everything is too dry.
All of the hobbies I do have stopped because it's school holidays, even though they are nothing to do with school or kids.
I can't get anything done at work because everyone is on holiday.
Can't meet up with friends because they are either on holiday or home with their kids.
Wasps and flies everywhere! And spiders are preparing to invade.
Urgh

Same! 30th August here. It's my 40th this month and I've no friends anymore 😢 So I'll be spending it alone. Not looking forward to it at all. Might buy some sleeping aid pills and try sleep through it all.

Reading this makes me realise I haven't swum once in the sea this year for similar reasons. Sad.

The few that I've seen have been very small - I'm putting raisins out for them as they enjoy those. They also love my fennel plant.

I could live very happily in a world without wasps.

I found my tribe! Yes end if August feels like the end of a party that peaked hours ago and everyone should just eff off home but we're trying to keep the fun going.
When ever I see blackberries I get a weird depressed feeling (even though I love them) because I know it means sumner is over and winter is looming. V much a sinking Sunday evening feel as someone else said.

I like it, don't find it depressing.

You may soon get your wish about wasps, but it will really not be the nirvana we might imagine.
Wasps are key to ensuring so many other bugs are kept at bay, and the loss of any species from the ecosystem has a catastrophic effect. We should be very careful what we wish for.😥

@rewilded thankyou for starting this thread! Seems there's lots of us - I was honestly starting to think I was going a bit mad.

Agree, I've really struggled today, it has been cold, it got dark early and I just feel really sad.

I love mid to late August. In the mornings and evenings there is a hint of autumn in the air (I love autumn), the nights start to draw in and we are well into the rhythm of a slower pace of life with no school run. Although by this point I am almost looking forward to getting back into the school time schedule, so I also don't feel sad about the new school year looming. I love going to the shops with DC to get their new school stuff, it reminds me of doing that with my lovely late mum when I was a child.

I was just thinking this evening how much earlier it was getting dark. I hate it. I'm in the NE and we haven't really had much of a summer so the thought of all these cold miserable dark damp days is quite depressing.

We don't even get a proper cold crisp winter with snow any more. It's just damp, wet and dark from October to May.

I so much prefer spring when all the lambs appear and the greenery starts to come out again.

Well I've really cheered myself up now.😁

Have wasps here in the SE. I love this time of the year - everywhere is empty, loads of blackberries and sloes to pick in my fields and when everyone is back I'm off on holiday!