To want to sit in my garden? It's the middle of May FGS!

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So, the little garden is a suntrap. It has walls all around to shelter it from the wind. We've lovingly planted lots of gorgeous things over the years, that are growing like billy-oh. There are nice chairs to sit on.

But I am utterly fed up of having to sit in the garden swaddled in warm clothes. It is just too effing cold to enjoy it.

There are a number of alternatives, I think

1. Turn off the central heating, have a couple of cold showers every day, go to bed with icecubes and generally try to lower the temperature at which I feel comfortable.
2. Patio heaters.
3. Move to a warm climate.
4. Give up all ideas of sitting in the garden until global warming has become fully operational. I think that might take 1000 years though.
5. Put a glass roof over the back garden and turn it into a conservatory

I'm tending to (2). Which might accelerate (4). Anyway, AIBU?

YANBU...I would go with Patio heaters - will speed up the global warming as well

1. have a bit of patience, summer is coooommmming!

Sit on an exercise bike or rowing machine. Working out will keep you warm, and help you lose weight if you're a bit porky big boned.

I would like to put my boots adn jumpers away and wear some of y lovley new summer clothes!

Unfortunately I am a good 10 years away from being perky. Perky is a distant memory. DH says he remembers it, but I think he is just humouring me.

I want to EAT in the garden. The trouble is that hot food is in danger of freezing on the plate. And it's difficult to eat in gloves.

defo not unreasonable, i went out inot my garden last night to sit and lasted about two minutes!

May is not warm enough in UK really. It is still early summer. N'er shed a clout till May is out.

Now here in Budapest it is normally lovely in May. Not this week though. Gale force winds and rain. Down to 11 degrees - have heating back on.

Will be 25 degrees in London by Friday- warm enough to sunbathe
I may finally get to abandon my bedsocks

Buda, you have a decent prospect of seeing the sun sometime soon though, don't you?

Meanwhile, we've got June to look forward to. Last year, June saw torrential rainstorms. Or perhaps I should wait for July? I believe we had floods last July. August, you think?

Also, and this sort of made me have a hollow laugh, we've got someone on secondment over from Kolkata, and after three months of English weather, his GP has diagnosed him with Vitamin D deficiency...

It is freezing isn't it? It's the weather I'd expect in March, not nearly June.

LOL at vit D deficiency!!! Well not really but you knwo what I mean.

Will it make you feel better if I tell you that our summer hols this year are UK and Ireland? Already assuming cold and wet!

But then we will have some time here where 2 years ago it was too hot for DS to play in the garden from around 9am till 7pm. We lived in the basement for 3 weeks.

You have your heating on? Whereabouts are you?

It's positively balmy down here on the South Coast. Well, y'know; ish.

I am very annoyed about the crap weather.

How dare it be rubbish for another summer

I think it was me with the heating back on Olifin. I am in Budapest. Normally beautiful summery weather this time of year - mid 20s temps blue sky and sunshine. But we have had a dreadful week - esp the weekend. Had to put an extra blanket on the bed last night. Freezing.

I bought a lambskin gillet, which keeps me snug.

I give up on Spring. Maybe summer will be o.k.???

I think we all need to get hair spray and big 4x4s so we can speed up the global warming.

global warming, my arse

I believe today will be pleasantly warm though

Buy a few of these

Leave them with the engine running, that should help speed up global warming

Seriously though, IKWYM, it does get quite warm when if the sun comes out, but there always seems to be this horrid breeze which seems to drop the temp by about 20 deg C!!

I have just bought a load of shorts and summery t-shirts for ds, I probably won't get much use out of them until we go to Spain in the Autumn!

YANBU-I was swimming in an outdoor pool on Sunday.
Now I´m thinking of putting the blöödy heating back on.

Well, it´s that or get of my ärse & do some work!

It's lovely and warm in London today. I just walked to the school bus in short sleeves and sandals.

how about one of these?

i think you can get inflatable ones for £300 too.

ROFL at spa bath. I won't be able to float around the garden in it. Or maybe I could ... Lunch might be a problem though

It's been a bit warmer today. Have been out in two layers as opposed to customary three

Well, I'm in Scotland and it was scorching today (15 degrees!!)

We were all skipping about in vest tops. The neds all had their shirts off- a heatwave!

But then, we are way hard