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 never said I can’t. It’s just not the weather for it is it? You don’t want a scalding bowl of stew and crusty bread in the middle of a heatwave!

what the bulk of the U.K. has now is weather you can walk a dog and exercise in for most of the day.

Indeed.

And we don’t need to go back and forth on which ‘side’ is rewriting history, we can simply look up weather data over the last 2 months. It’s clear for all to see that the idea the South-West has been 26+ degrees celsius for the entirety of June and July is a complete fucking nonsense.

Why not? People in hot countries eat hot food.

And energy prices going up!

I disagree completely.
I love sitting in my garden. Wearing summer clothes. Slipping out of the house completely hassle free. Slip on a pair of shoes and sunglasses and off I go.
I make sure I have lots of summer clothes, made from natural fibres and I wash often. Being able to line dry clothes and iron and put them straight away is a luxury.
Leaving the house wearing minimal make up is another.
Being unable to sit in my garden due to the rain or cold is awful.
Getting battered to death by wind and rain is not enjoyable to me. Neither is having to cart around heavy coats, jumpers, umbrellas etc all whilst getting soaked is horrible.
I don’t like Halloween. I hate randomers knocking on my door at the best of times, never mind constant knocking asking for treats.
I do like the colours of autumn but that’s about it.
Give me dry, hot/warm days anytime.

Okay. When it’s 35 degrees out, eat a bowl of stew and hot bread and pretend it makes you feel good.

I don’t know why some of you are so offended by this thread!

No, it’s fucking not.

But you must be right. Oh ye of great moral standing, because you’ve enjoyed the last two months. Everyone else is below you!

Another benefit of summer is that it’s bearable at work.
Come autumn and I have to start wearing thermal tights and cardigans at the very least. By November we are freezing.

I agree. And an earlier pp calling it “glorious “ as the wildfires and drought go on..

We’re freezing in the winter too, to be fair. But I’d rather that than this, where our office has regularly been 30 degrees. I don’t think there’s been a week since May where at least one person hasn’t gone home sick with what appears to be heat related illnesses.

(And before that poster says it’s bullshit - it’s an NHS office. They don’t really care because they can’t afford to do anything. The advice has just been to take regular breaks outside and drink lots)

You can have it in the evening or on cooler days than 35 degrees. Or if you have less appetite in the heat have a late Spanish dinner or something.

I think people who hate summer and wish it away are fat and/or have no friends.

I think people who love summer are mean spirited and nasty.

(See how that makes no sense?)

That’s the entire point! There haven’t been any cooler days. Most of us can’t just shift our entire routine and shift pattern to allow for eating dinner at 10pm

I’m fat. I love summer. Not so keen on people who judge by body type though.

I’m not a big fan of British stews anyway, and I wouldn’t eat one with bread but - it tops that temperature in India. Curry is a stew. What’s the difference between chilli and a stew? It’s hot in a South America.
And what do you mean by ‘pretend it makes you feel good’? I eat what I enjoy. I eat hot food most days even in a heat wave

Fuck me.

Some of you are just entirely insufferable. If you are willing to look past the fact this has been the hottest summer on record by some stretch, and pretend that British people have the same tolerance for heat, because you get a little bit sad in the winter and haven’t learned to deal with it yet, feel free. Just do it somewhere else.

Why so emotional?
Amd also - I don’t get ‘a little bit sad’. I get depressed and I’d appreciate you not minimising and mocking that because not everyone agrees with you.

A “nice” summer 😆😆😆

wildfires, drought, forced early harvests, heat-related hospital admissions and deaths, trees and bushes dry and wilting… Yes, it’s been a “nice” summer ☀️

So go to the GP and seek help. Don’t be insufferable and goady on a thread that’s about how awful this summer has been - because it has been awful. You’re drawing false equivalences and pretending that Britain is the same as India because you don’t like to admit the reality of the absolute disaster this summer has been.

The data proves it FFS 🤦‍♀️

No one is pretending anything except you.

Why don’t you tell us where in the South West you are? This mystery place where it hasn’t dipped below 26 degrees for 2 months and where you’re routinely sweating by 8am…

Again. Insufferable as fuck.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this. When I was a young teenager I hated summer. We didn’t have a school uniform and I wore tight jeans evey single day. Because I was convinced I was fat due to going through puberty and the almost unbearable pressure at the time to be neigh on anorexic, I always wore a top/jumper which covered my hips plus a jacket. For this reason I hated summer. Looking back I was by any standards thin. Much, much thinner than the average teenager of today by a long way.
So I think there is a lot of truth in this statement.
How I wish I could turn back time and tell myself how lovely I was and to enjoy life.

Why are you being so angry and horrible?

It's literally a thread about the hot summer. Some people like it, some people hate it.

Jesus Christ calm down and just don't read the thread if you can't help but get so irate.

Because the same two posters have derailed the thread and been incredibly uppity.