To just want it to be autumn now?

[cravingcrispmornings]

I hate the depths of winter (January and February) with a passion, but my god I am craving those lovely September days where it’s not so hot you feel sweaty by 8am, and you're able to walk around without feeling disgusting.

I want soups and stews and pies back on the menu instead of pasta and salads, I want a piping hot bowl of leek and potato soup with a crusty bit of bread, a steak and ale pie with a helping of buttery mash, a roast dinner.

I’m sick of wearing dresses and sandals, I have a Birkenstock tan line ffs. I want to get into bed and feel cosy, not just have a sheet over the top of me. I’m craving a cosy autumn afternoon, a nice walk through orange woods and coming back to a lovely bowl of stew with a helping of crusty bread, tucked under a blanket reading a book.

I’m just bloody sick of summer!

I don’t want to complain because we’ve had some awful cold, wet summers…..but yes, it’s all gone on a bit too long! Everything is so brown and crispy, I’m worried about the very real possibility of wild fires, I have fans going everywhere, I’m sweaty all the time and it’s very often too hot to walk the dogs.
I should add that I do not live in London and I cannot imagine the hell that is the tube right now.

My family have lived in Spain since 2014, according to them every summer has gotten worse and they now regularly take trips to the UK to get away from the heat. Luckily my family are in an area not possible for wildfires but I’m still worried for them every year.

Whilst it has been nice being able to wash and dry laundry in under 3 hours this summer (in England), everything is dead, my grass, flowers. It’s reached 52°c at work on multiple occasions, there’s been field fires nearby and vulnerable people ending up in hospital due to the heat.
last night was bliss, we’ve even turned the fan off and put the 4.5 tog duvet back on, I was cold walking upstairs last night.

I have read that due to the super El Niño which has caused this hot summer, we will have an exceptionally cold winter, so that’s something to look forward to

I love running in cold weather and in the dark 😂. I love the dark, verbally. I do like light evenings too. But I don’t mind dark evenings at all. Cold weather is great to run in, you just dress right and get out. The heat makes me feel sick of if I run in it.

I mean, not as strange as rewriting history and fabricating a whole new reality in which for the whole of June and July there was unbearable heat without respite somewhere in the South-West in which you were ‘sweating by 8am’… 🤦‍♀️ And when multiple people pointed that, as early as 2 days away, the weather cools significantly, you still go on about how you wish it were autumn already.

I like elements of summer. I don’t like applying suncream constantly but I equally like how freeing summer clothes are, I don’t miss wrapping up warm. I enjoy sitting outside reading my books but I don’t enjoy needing a cover to shade my laptop screen when I’m working outside. I enjoy summer days out.

Genuinely don’t understand why people prefer cold and rain. I find everyone more sociable in the summer as well, it’s like everyone goes into hibernation once the clocks go back. Life just seems happier when it’s sunny 😎

Same here. How can anyone enjoy feeling cold or grey miserable days? Give me warm sunny days any day of the week. They lift my spirits.

that’s the other advantage: no need to socialise!

I don't like any of those things, except for autumn colours.

Running in cold weather hurts my lungs.

Yabu, at least we're having a nice summer this year! I hate winter it so cold dark and depressing

Are you still banging on?

Long may summer continue! There’s months of cold, dark, wet misery on its way.

There’s never need to socialise of you don’t want to. Summer just makes it easier, not compulsory.

I am.

No thank you. We haven't even been on our summer holiday yet. And I don't do well in heat, but would still like the summer to stay until we've been away.

Does thst not make the place hotter? We've had the front and back doors propped open and all the windows and it's much cooler indoors than outside.

Where do you live where it's been too hot to walk your dogs today?

Mine have been out all day in West Sussex, sat round a fishing lake with shade as well as sun. But they had walks as well.

It depends. If it's hotter outside then the advice is to keep everything closed. I open the curtains windows at the back of the house on the morning. Then switch to the front loves open later on when the sun moves. If there a decent breeze I open them all.

Normally I love summer. But summer isn't normally like this.

I live in the south East and it has been 2 months of unremitting heat approaching 30c most days and several days of 35c

Ive had enough. I can barely sleep.

Exactly this I only have the windows open early in the morning and late at night
During the day, it's hotter outside than it is inside.So you leave the windows shut, or you just let hot air in

Both sides of this rewrite history. The summer lovers claim we get 3 days of summer and months of grey. And Vice versa.

Today was 26 degrees where I was, which is too hot for me to walk dog during day and run. I waited until 5pm, but I’ve had to skip lots of runs as it hasn’t been below 25 even at 8pm.

Statistically it has been a hot dry summer, no one is making that up! Of course there might have been the odd day, but same in winter, not every day is miserable.

It has felt somewhat relentless. As to the person that said they don’t understand why you’d want to be cold, people are different. I feel unbearably hot over about 25 degrees. I can’t describe easily, how awful it makes me feel. But I don’t get overly cold and would always rather be too cold than too hot.

You are allowed to eat soup in August! Just make it if you want it. I'm already noticing the nights drawing in and I don't like it. The last couple of weeks since the heatwave broke have been lovely and I'd quite happily have it like this all year round.

I’m in north east Scotland, I’ve hardly worn shorts this summer and fed up of grey dull cool days. Someone upthread said it was 22 degrees, it’s about 12 here and I’ve gone to bed. I’m not sure I’m imagining it but I swear it’s duller this year than most. I’ve used my light cashmere jumper loads. Next week’s forecast looks dire though glad for rain. If my post reads miserable it’s because I feel a bit cheated this year!

Yes, it’s odd that the anti summer brigade seem so hooked up on rules. No soup or hot food? Have they been to India? Lentil soup, curry, and much hotter and more humid than here. Candles? Well, it’s 9.20 and my curtains are shut. If I wanted a candle I could light one. All the feeling guilty for not being out - why? Just stay in if you want to. There’s no law. I don’t go outside much more than I do in the winter - it’s just nicer.
A proper extended heatwave is different, and even I found the last one a bit much b the end of- but what the bulk of the U.K. has now is weather you can walk a dog and exercise in for most of the day.
Behaviour isn’t dictated by season unless you want it to be. I hate winter, it affects my mental health badly but I absolutely refuse to let it stop me from going to hobby groups or the gym or volunteering.