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.

Your post is exactly how I also feel about August. I loved my children being off school, so we could spend lots of time together, I still feel that way now they are all grown up.

Personally I think August birthdays are a bit rubbish (mines on Wednesday) lots of friends and family on holiday, there's rarely any one around to go out and celebrate with, even worse when it's midweek too. 🙄

Haha... was reminiscing about being in Hull in the hot hot summers... between Needlers and the tannery on Sculcoates Lane - across the road from the stagnant canal. OMG do the smells come back to you....

I'm sure it has been beautified since.

August is the Sunday of summer, completely get it!

My BD is in September, and I always love this time of year.Often warm days and cooler nights so more comfy. I have one more session of Chemo left and determined to enjoy BD and try to have time "off" of thinking about it for a few weeks (follow up Appt Oct)

I’m ok with August this year because we have had proper summer weather so far with just the odd dull day. However, often August starts to get the melancholy autumn feeling to it - hasn’t happened so far where I am.

Autumn was my favourite season until I had my DC. I used to long for it and look forward to it and only felt properly alive from September to the end of December. But then DC was born in the summer and I soon learned that I could expect to spend every autumn and Christmas either looking after a constantly ill child or being constantly ill myself of (most often) a super fun combination of both. It’s given me an awful dread of the whole season and I start to feel panicky as it approaches. By mid September I’ll be an anxious, depressed mess. Gutted because I miss how much I used to love it.

I love August in many ways. However it brings an acknowledgement that summer is drawing to a close and that I haven't managed to do so much of what I had hoped to do with my summer. It is partly my own family for being unrealistic in the first place l, but I'm a natural optimist and I don't like being forced to concede that time is running out!

You know that expression: when life gives you lemons, make lemonade? Some people are more: when life gives you lemonade, tip it down the sink and suck on a lemon.

I used to love walking my GS at dusk and breaking dawn. He had aggression issues and I worked nights, so we were a good match. There's something magical about the world quietening down, or waking up (when we had a good population of birds and wildlife). I'm looking forward to my GC going back to school and Autumn/Halloween/the C word.

I agree but I hate September more! No idea why it just really annoys me! 🙈

I get this every Sunday night.

The harvest is going full pelt here and I just love it

I loathe August and always have.
Garden is going over and looks rubbish and I can't be bothered to battle slugs anymore.
Weather is never as good as it should be, usually muggy and grey.
School holidays are beginning to feel too long and expensive.
Work is harder as lots of people on leave
Just a generally rubbish month.

I love September with its feeling of new beginnings but August is my least favourite of all the months

Do you need to change career? When I found a job where I stopped getting that it was the most wonderful thing.

Congrats on the grandbaby :) I love your username, the book is one of my favourites.

I think it's just a hangover from my schooldays,I absolutely hated school.

Snap happy birthday to us 😁😁

I think for me as well it is the feeling of your own mortality, another summer gone just like all the others before.

I get this feeling on Boxing Day too.

Yep. 100%.

I get it too, I work from home but I still get the Sunday night blues when I hear the Countryfile and Antiques Roadshow theme tunes. I'm kind of glad they moved Songs of Praise to the afternoon because that tune really reminds me of school (which I loathed).

I agree, especially this year. I feel like I kept waiting for summer to arrive and apart from the odd v. hot days I don't feel like it really got going.

The sun sits differently in the sky and the light is different as September comes and then before we know it Halloween, fireworks and countdown to Christmas.

I am definitely still waiting from a fashion point of view. I was a bit bewildered when I realised that I need to put most of my summer stuff back in the vaccum bags unworn in a couple of weeks, and that I actually did need jeans and longer dresses on for most of the summer.

I almost posted a similar thread!

I detest August. Weather is either pants or hot, sticky and humid.

Making plans difficult as everyone away. Appointments the same.

Very little gets done at work as colleagues and clients are off.

Kids out of routine.

For me it's a 'nothing' month and I count down the days until September, which brings an air of 'new term' anticipation for me

In my early twenties I used to spend every weekend at my cousin's place,she'd give me a lift home on Sunday night and the same three songs would always be on the car radio.
I still shudder when I hear them.

Yea totally this. I saw a meme thing the other day and it said August was the Sunday of months...and it really is.
I always hated back to school as a child and the theme tune to Antiques Roadshow still signifies the end of your own time and back to school or work.
August and Sunday feeling are awful 😖