To have end of summer blues

[spanieleyes22]

Just that really! I know it's not totally over and we have this bank hol weekend. Just feeling really low at the thoughts of back to school and bad weather and rain and being miserable!! Anyone else.

Yes me too!

I also feel like everything in autumn and winter is just such harder work.

@paddyclampster oh dear!

Yanbu. Autumn and winter can do one.

I’m a teacher in Scotland so we’ve already been back 2 weeks so for me Summer is definitely over and what a non event it was! There was hardly a dry day, no sunny nice weather at all. Right now it’s cold with torrential rain, feels like January. It will be like this until next March now.

I'm a bit depressed about it to be honest, I can remember 2 days where we sat out in the garden all Summer. I actually feel like moving abroad.

I'm with you on those, except for crumble.

What is there to get excited about stew?

I'm done with summer. The weathers been awful. Grateful we did get a foreign sunny holiday though.

The nights are getting a lot darker and brown leaves are already falling off the trees.

Surprise surprise kids go back to school next week and looks like a mini heatwave.

I always think of September as still-summer anyway.

@PassingStranger you miss my point. I'm not someone who naturally loves Halloween and all those things either - my point was that I have to work at it, or like the OP I get the blues at the end of summer and the darker months turn into a pit of SAD.

Yes, this is it exactly. I feel that if we had proper seasons, and some sunlight in autumn and winter, it wouldn’t get so many people down. As it is, the cold, crisp conditions people keep mentioning rarely seem to happen here, and it is the endless grey, non-descript, slightly too mild but neither one thing nor the other type conditions which we have so much which means you can’t even embrace the dreaded ‘snuggling’ activities!

I'm with you. It's the feeling of the darkness encroaching.
I do like the feeling of a new academic year starting in September a bit and try to enjoy the nice bits of autumn, but god the thought of a grim grey December and trying to do all of the frantic organisation of Christmas is depressing.

Yep. Gutted. 😢
Back to school/ work blues setting in. Pumpkin spice can piss off.

You've been lucky this year then! It hasn't been very warm.

I’ve not managed to get any annual leave over this summer so I’m feeling knackered and ready for a break at this point . Don’t really need it as my 2DS are both older teens but I love the summer months. I always feel a bit low as the nights start to draw in and the temperatures drop. I don’t mind autumn but I find winter makes me feel rubbish

Yep! 🖕

I love autumn and winter - I love all the seasons - but I do get the blues at the end of the school
holidays. It’s that feeling that another summer with my kids has passed and they are limited. Obviously I want my kids to grow up and go off and live their own lives but I really really cherish these weeks together every year and I will miss them so much when they’re gone for good.

I like crumble but I don't see what's stopping people eating it any time of the year.

Summer holidays have flown this year. I don't feel we've done enough, even though we had loads of plans. We've got a couple of nights away this week and a few other nice things but it's just gone and it seems five seconds since we broke up! I normally love the autumn and crisp winter months but all I can think of is not being able to afford to have the heating on, dark mornings and struggling to dry the washing. Urgh.

@SoupDragon Well, it's still shorts weather here in Sussex and the forecast looks great for next week 😅

we’ve had rain nearly all year, feels like summer never even began

I'm with you and I'm really worrying about it as my mood literally drops through the floor

I've had an amazing summer lovely memories and just feel absolute dread at nothing but dark nights and shit weather

I hate winter with a passion, rain and darkness in general really.
I live for the sun and would gladly move to somewhere with more of it if I could 😂

Was just thinking today I’m so sad it’s ending

I like Winter except for wind and rain 😆even the sound of water running on the TV makes me shiver, I know it's meant to be relaxing but it has the opposite effect on me. They had a picture of rain on a window during the weather the other day and same thing happened-can't stand it. It's been noticeably colder the last week, and felt a draft through the house the other day which was horrible. Already had my electric blanket on a couple times!

I think I dread all seasons to a certain extent due to my hatred of weather 😆 Saying that it feels like 5 mins ago since someone made a post in April saying when is Spring gonna start...can't believe the hot weather has almost been and gone already and I'm a bit sad about it. Still getting used to it being 2024 😩

Nope me too. The change in seasons absolutely knocks me for six. I hate the darker nights more than anything. I’m sick of the anxiety and depression that comes from it, the sneezing and coughing every 5 minutes, the 45 mins of daylight in the winter. If I could do summer in the uk and winter in the southern hemisphere I’d be off like a shot.

I’m in the Southern hemisphere, so summer is coming and I can’t bloody wait! We only have a short wet and not particularly cold winter here, but I still hate it! If I was rich I would travel to avoid winter completely. Fuck snuggly blankets and hot choc, give a cold beer on a hot beach any day.

@Passwordsaremynemesis - Me too. It's been spring-like here this week and I'm loving it. Roll on summer!!