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AIBU?

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Original poster

to be fed up of this bloody weather?

110 replies

angelene · 31/05/2009 21:28

It's boiling hot.

I have red hair and pale skin and I really dislike the feeling of hot weather.

I have bad hayfever.

This weather pisses me off so much - if it's cold you can put another jumper on, or turn the heating up, but there is NO ESCAPE from the heat.

I feel woozy and heavy-legged. My eyes are either stinging from sun cream or itching with hayfever. I look shit in summer clothes and I can't wear heels. My ankles and feet are swollen and I'm not even pregnant.

And yet because I have a DD I have to get out and DO stuff which makes me feel worse, rather than being at home with the curtains closed, which is what I really want to do. And it's not fair to DD who is a real outdoor girl and loves it.

The thought of a long summer of this is making me feel very depressed.

I know I'm being a bit of a drama queen, and am probably being a bit unreasonable, but the fetishisation of the hot weather in this country pisses me off (and I needed a rant).

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Morloth · 31/05/2009 21:57

Sorry I think YABU, I got SIX loads of washing done, washed, dried in sun and put way. So nice. But to be fair it was only about 24 degrees or so here, so not really hot.

hazeyjane · 31/05/2009 22:01

angelene I could have written your post!

I love spring, autumn and winter, but on hot sunny days i just want to sit in a dark room.

hayfever, asthma and eczema worse, both dd's wheezing (and we've all got some virus at the moment), sunburn, feeling dizzy and crap, having no energy (BTW if you feel crap during hot weather, check out your blood pressure, I get low blood pressure, and it is worse on hot days).

I love Winter and piling on the jumpers, going out in the rain, shit I even like the wind, but hot weather I just can't do.

Thunderduck · 31/05/2009 22:02

Why has no one invited me to Alaska? I hate the heat too.

kitkatqueen · 31/05/2009 22:02

woo hoo !!! I dried 8 loads 2day YABU!! buy a fan

Original poster
angelene · 31/05/2009 22:07

Right, the Alaska Mumsnet trip is on. So far we have Thunderduck, hester, hazeyjane, grumpy and me, anyone else?

All transport will be fully, properly, air conditioned and we'll be just staying in (air conditioned) hotels and drinking in the (air conditioned) bars.

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Morloth · 31/05/2009 22:11

Soft, you lot are a bunch of soft northern hemisphere wimps .

amidaiwish · 31/05/2009 22:11

dh has suffered terribly from hayfever since i've known him
he now cuts out wheat as soon as the hayfever starts and the relief of symptoms is incredible. one bite of baguette and we all know about it.

do try it. apparently it takes the load off your immune system to enable it to fight the pollen.

no red wine or beer either, but being pg i guess that is irrelevant!

Thunderduck · 31/05/2009 22:12

Might I suggest this venue and location for our 2010 trip?Here

hester · 31/05/2009 22:15

Ooh lovely, I'm packing me thermals.

sweetkitty · 31/05/2009 22:17

YABU I'm in Scotland too and for 361 days of the year it pisses it down, is cold, damp, overcast and miserable.

We went to the beach today, collected shells and made sandcastles, next weekend it will be raining again so got to make the most of it.

I'm sure you can smell the sunburnt usually blue tinged white flesh of the Scots from Engerland. Almost every man we passed today was half naked with sunburnt back.

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angelene · 31/05/2009 22:21

Thunderduck I've seen that before and it looks AMAZING. Always wanted to go to Iceland.

amidaiwish I need the bread to cope with the bloody hayfever, don't take it away from meeeeeeeee!

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TheMitsubishiWarrioress · 31/05/2009 22:25

YANBU if it makes you feel so ill, but i have to say I am in 7th heaven and personally hope it lasts until october...

sweetkitty · 31/05/2009 22:33

Being pregnant or having hay fever would make you not unreasonable though

hazeyjane · 01/06/2009 12:49

Please take me to Alaska now!

Went out early with dd's to avoid being really hot, have just got home with a ton of shopping, 2 sticky, grubby, sunscreeny toddlers, itchy eyes and a cracking headache - maybe i'm actually allergic to sunshine!

Am trying to decide between closing the curtains and sticking tv on (bad, bad mummy) or sitting in paddling pool with dd's.

duchesse · 01/06/2009 12:53

I think YABU- this happens so rarely that it's a gift when it does. You can practically see garden plants growing and thriving, washing dries in an hour, (practically) everybody feels more cheerful. And I say this as someone who is pregnant and feeling the heat a little.

SarahL2 · 01/06/2009 12:57

YABU.

I'm pregnant so can't take antihistamines for my hayfever and the heat is making my MS worse but I still love it!

But then I think I suffer from mild SAD in the winter months.

Summer and the sun and the heat make me feel alive again and so happy and energetic!!

Just suck it up - it'll only last a few weeks anyway....

pingping · 01/06/2009 12:58

YABU the weather is beautiful I also have reddish hair and pale skin

GetOrfMoiLand · 01/06/2009 13:00

I am with you on the hayfever - I am sneezing like a loon today, is anyone else suffering particularly badly today? But in the winter months I get chronic sinusitis anyway so I am always sniffing about something.

I also don't ever sit in the sun because I am paranoid of getting burnt.

BUT I do like the heat, and the fact that people are cheerful, and we can live off salad. I would rather have this than all that bloody snow we had everywhere in January, at least England doesn't grind to a halt in the sun!

BexieID · 01/06/2009 13:02

I prefer the hot weather abroad lazing on a beach to it here, lol. Or lazing on a beach here, but Tom hates sand lol.

hazeyjane · 01/06/2009 13:13

Is there a Summer equivalent to SAD?

I just have no energy in warm weather, it feels like I'm wading through tar, I guess if I could lie down in the shade and read a book (ha ha ha!)it would be nice, but I can't seem to get on with anything that needs doing.

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angelene · 01/06/2009 13:15

I think it's a parenthood problem rather than anything else - pre-DD I could manage because I didn't NEED to DO anything and could lock myself inside in a darkened room. Now I have to be out there being fun and non-grouchy, and because I am (to my annoyance) the de facto leader of the family I'm feeling it more.

Although I'm feeling better today because I'm at work in the air conditioned office and don't have to go out.

Although wearing flat shoes in the office is rather wierd

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spinspinsugar · 01/06/2009 13:20

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hazeyjane · 01/06/2009 13:23

We had dd in 2006, and lived in a mobile home at the time, her room reached 34 degrees (I threw away the room thermometer, because it freaked me out too much!)

My favourite Summer activity pre dds was going to the cinema in the daytime. I think I am a natural born goth.

Stigaloid · 01/06/2009 13:33

YANBU - i love hot weather in hot countries where everything is adapted around it - air-con, swimming pools, cool floors etc. I hate hot weather in UK with double glazing, carpeting, no air on tube or trains etc. UK was designed as a cold country so everyhouse is insulated to keep heat in. Hot weather makes my house so stiffling and having windows open only makes hayfever worse. Bah!

reach4sky · 01/06/2009 13:36

Where on earth are you? Temperature today is only going to be around 27C, hardly unbearably hot.

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