Anyone else had a rubbish school holidays?

[Blueybanditbingochilli]

Namely because of:

1. The fucking WEATHER. No doubt I will be piled on telling me to buy puddle suits and ‘crack on’ but it’s been absolutely miserable and I will not hear otherwise. We haven’t been abroad, we don’t have nearby family to visit and we don’t have good inexpensive indoor local attractions so every rainy day (which has genuinely been most days) has been SHIT and we have gone out of our minds with boredom.
2. The age of my children (5 and 17 months), an ENDLESS treadmill of toilet visits, nappy changes, meals, naps, drinks before doing the lot again. They can’t be left alone together as they fight and wind each other up so to even go for a piss I have to strap the youngest, screaming, into his pram while the oldest desperately tries to get to him to cause more havoc.
3. My youngest has been ill on and off after starting nursery all summer with croup, ear infections, whooping cough and HFM, so on top of the rainy days we have also spent ‘ill’ days sat bored out of our skulls in the living room which I swear one day will be the purgatory I spend my afterlife in.

Not interested in smug stories about puddle suits, impeccably behaved children with fabulous immune systems or those who ‘love the cooler weather’. This is a rant thread for those who can relate to my position and nothing more. Roll on school!

ME!!!
DD dumped just before A levels didn’t make grades and lost university place
Lost 2.5 k when we were supposed to go on holiday on the day the world stopped because of the computer glitch
Had to put one of our cats down
Fell out with my in laws
My car broke down
Got COVID
and the weather has wrecked my garden
It has been a trying few weeks to say the least so lets hope for a happy September :)

that really puts everything in perspective - I am lucky to have made it through the summer without such devastating loss.

We must be contacting each other from alternate universes!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c6p2nq0x7p5o

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2024/uk-experiences-coolest-summer-since-2015

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5n7nn289do.amp

www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/summaries/index

Eldest brought threadworms home the last week of term, we all got them, its taken 6 weeks to sort out. The End.

It has been shit. Admittedly the first few weeks were ok, but then ds (10 asd) really started to struggle without the school routine and has made every day a nightmare for his siblings. I have had to spend so much time trying to regulate him that the others have been ignored for large periods of time. And trying to get anything done around the house has been basically impossible. And now we have the adjustment of getting back to school to contend with.

We’ve spent 6 months with my DD in 1st position on the waiting list for her chosen secondary school where all of her friends are going. She’s been assigned an abysmal school that is 5 times further away and nearly an hour on public transport. School starts tomorrow and she’s still not got a place. It’s been a long summer waiting to see if there was any good news today when the school office opened but nope.

We've had insanely hot days, interspersed with lots of rain. Last weekend we went to a music festival and it was like the apocalypse with the rain, then this weekend blazing hot sunshine which was crazy..I got back off a tenerife holiday on 30th July and it was hotter here than in tenerife!!

OP, I promise it's gets better. I had 3 under the age of 4 and I remember how relentless the holidays were. I just tried to be kind to myself, muted social media of all the "making memories" twats and just tried to survive.

Mine are all tweens/teens now, I never see them now. I work full time and they go days without seeing me and don't even care 😆

July was a bit wet but I don't class most of that as the summer holidays! We didn't break up until the 24th and then we immediately went to NE England for a week which was 24 and sunny.

https://www.yourweather.co.uk/news/forecasts/the-uk-weather-outlook-for-august-2024-how-long-will-the-hot-weather-last.html

This points out the end of July was warm and the weather was expected to continue in the mid/south of England.

I do think the South Coast had anomalous weather. DS went to Weymouth and it was 5 degrees colder with rain.

This is probably the worst summer holiday I’ve had since having children. I have quite large age gaps 14, 8 & 3 & it’s so hard to do something they all want to do 90% of what I suggest my eldest isn’t interested in, everything is so crazy expensive. I went to book tickets to the Aquarium as youngest has never been & my 8 year old loves sharks.. Family of 5 the tickets were just shy of £200?! Even doing the cinema cost us over £50 once we bought popcorn ect & I wouldn’t mind taking our own bits but the kids find getting their cinema treats exciting.

I’ve booked a holiday for abroad next year instead.

Northerner here and the weather was shocking throughout. Awful. Gardens wrecked, fallen trees, cold, floods, heating on weather.
We had 1 precious week visiting relatives thankfully.

Yep. Was in tears a week in!

I live as far south as you can get, and it's been cool and cloudy here all summer.

I'm aghast at how different people's perceptions can be.

Well these are from 15th July/ today and Scotland. Our summer holidays have been pretty nice, sorry 🤷‍♀️

South east or South West?

Quote from one of your links, when the summer holidays started

Temperatures increased in the third week of July, with temperatures in the upper 20s across southeast England, reaching the 30s in some areas. Heathrow and Kew Gardens (Greater London) both saw 32.0°C on the 30th, the highest temperature of the year so far. The temperature remained above average to the end of the month, and felt occasionally muggy especially in the southeast.

I’m not in the south east and the entire country is not the south east

No need to be sorry I’m just convinced we’re posting through a vortex linking 2 separate universes at this stage. I counted 12 days rain in a row and I don’t think it’s exceeded 23/24 degrees once. All days bar a few have been cloudy and around 20 tops.

Yeah I realize that 🙄. I said it’s been nice where I am in the South east. You responded with these links, I thought indicating that wasn’t true? So I was saying they aren’t in the SE. Maybe crossed wires.

Been pretty rubbish although weather was okay. DD2 had a seizure in the holidays and can't be left alone, she also didn't do as well as she hoped in her GCSEs (not terrible though). No holiday as can't afford it. DH had his annual leave postponed due to mass illness. DS has been happy enough with the park and paddling pool but I'm so bored of it
DS also has autism and starting school soon and am so worried about him.
DD1 and DD2 said they were bored but wouldn't say what they wanted to do.
DD2 starts college on Wednesday and DS starts school a week today. Just need DD1 to get a job and we'll be sorted.
Think a lot of my problems come from having two teenagers and a 4 year old though.

TBH I just really hate the school summer holidays - rain or shine - I just find it tedious when we're not on holiday or a proper planned day out (there aren't many as they tend to be bloody expensive).

Nothing really bad happened, just a lot more for me to organise, particularly childcare and meal planning. My DH does do a bit but it inevitably falls to me to sort out - we both work FT.

I wish I did like the school summer holidays more but I don't, they drag and drag and just add to my workload.

BTW - the shit weather is my fault........ We decided to buy 'proper' garden furniture this year so popped along to John Lewis in April - just when the rubbish weather started

I am sorry it’s been a rubbish holidays though. Hopefully you have some nice weekends soon.
Mine has gone too quick I feel like they’ve barely begun, and we haven’t done anything that exciting.

Agree. I am in Brighton and I've had my electric blanket on all except three days. Just heard on radio it's been the coldest August for ten years. Average of 14 degrees

Utterly crap summer holidays. Awful, awful, awful weather all summer long, I can count on one hand the amount of warm sunny days we've had. My brother ended up admitted to hospital with pneumonia in June, the 1 year old got hand foot and mouth in July then we all got Covid, MIL had emergency bowel surgery in August which was scary for DH but has also fucked up our childcare arrangements for the next 6 months. Went away for 3 days on a UK break that cost £900 and it rained all day long every day. The garden is a state because it's never dry enough to do anything with it. The heating bill was huge because we had to put the bloody heating on in August. I'm completely exhausted and fed up.

@Blueybanditbingochilli you will of course get those on who swear it's been dry and scorching hot for most of the summer in their little bubble- I can confirm here in Bath I would say we've had about 10 what I call nice days-the rest a mix of rain, ( ranging from drizzle to monsoon) cloud, wind and cool