To say you can’t get cosy in Summer?

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So this is just a lighthearted thread.

You know on mumsnet when we have those threads about who likes Summer and who likes Winter. You’ll always get a divide and people giving reasons why they prefer one or the other.

There was a thread recently and people were saying that they liked getting cosy in Winter. Someone replied to say that was nonsense and that you could get cosy in Summer if you wanted to.

Aibu to say that Summer is a lot of lovely things, but it definitely isn’t cosy.

Cosy to me is curling up under a blanket, fire on, low lighting, or getting in bed with a hot water bottle and a big duvet.

I kept thinking afterwards, how do you get cosy in Summer? 🤣

That’s exactly how I feel - you said it perfectly

I think you can definitely be cosy in summer - certainly in the UK, where summers are often not particularly warm. Lying in bed in holiday accommodation listening to the sea during the night is cosy, I think. So is that feeling when you've been outside all day and then the temperature drops at night and you have to go and get a hoodie if you want to stay outdoors when it's dark.

Years ago, we went on a boat trip in July to a very remote Scottish island. Four hours on a small motor cruiser boat. It was a very bright, sunny summer day but the journey was still very rough and very windy, lots of sea spray out on deck, winds out at sea etc, and then we were outdoors on an island with zero shelter for ages. Anyway - when we got back on the boat to go home again, we went below deck and the boat's owner/captain put the kettle on and gave us hot mugs of tea and big slabs of cake that his wife had made, and I have literally never been more cosy in my life than I was at that moment.

Oh I can get cozy for an afternoon snooze in the shade!

I mean, UKmean summer temp is apparently 16c.
You can absolutely get cosy with fire😂

I cannot get "cosy" in Summer, because
I absolutely hate every aspect of it. Summer and Spring. 😭

Wanderung off topic but thread has just alerted me to realising that ‘cosy’ or more frequently the American form ‘cozy’ seems to be one of the most overused words on social media atm. You know those unsolicited posts on FB which display an obviously AI-generated image of a room in a house lit by fairy lights with the word “Cozy” followed some emojis. And everyone comments underneath “so cosy” or “so beautiful” or “I would love to live here”. Annoys me irrationally.

Back on topic and I think in summer we tend to relabel ‘cosy’ as ‘romantic’ especially when it’s outdoors eg fairy lights. For me, cosy tends to involve fire and protection against the cold.

You cannot get cosy in summer

Unless it's raining

The definition of cosy is comfort, warmth and relaxation which you definitely can do in the summer, with or without rain.

I personally wouldn’t use the word cosy for summer but by it’s own definition it’s possible you can be cosy