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Anyone else getting just.......

.....a teensy-weensy bit fed up with this bloody awful miserable weather? I've just put my heating on - in bleedin' August for God's sake! I'm seriously becoming extremely depressed and pi$$ed off!  I'm pacing around my flat like a caged tiger, muttering and grumbling to myself. And no, I don't want to go for a walk! I already did earlier, and I was bloody freezing.  I just want to see a smidgeon of blue sky to lift my spirits. Just a glimmer, a tiny glimpse, that's all I want. I really don't ask for much in life.I know this is a pointless thread and will be totally ignored.Right, back to my pacing.....

Jill Merrett ● 2254d39 Comments

Dont worry Jill you will be in Benidorm with me tomorrow 6 am pick up dont forget ya headache pills your gonna need them....

Mick Collins ● 2254d

Oh God, I feel even more depressed now!

Jill Merrett ● 2254d

oh thanks very much Jill... look I maybe 5 foot 2 and 17  stone and some teeth missing but ive been told I have a "nice" personality ..oh ok then.

Mick Collins ● 2254d

Best thread yet - if I’m told to ‘keep going’  again I’ll top myself !!!!

Helen Bamberger ● 2254d

For god sake Helen dont keep going!!!Glad to help :)

Mick Collins ● 2254d

Another one 'keep safe' .... Ugh

Helen Bamberger ● 2254d

Jill, you have my entire sympathy. I too get resentful when the summer is as grudging as it has been this week, not helped by the fact that I cancelled my usual visits to Crete this year because of that bloody virus! On a more cheerful note, according to the forecast, it looks as though the temperature should be getting back up to about 24 by Thursday - till then, keep a jumper and a raincoat handy. :)

Colin Jordan ● 2254d

"Unprecedented and difficult times ..."

Chris Blackwell ● 2254d

“The new normal”

Georgina Flint ● 2254d

Love your answer Mick - Jill you are not alone with what you said- lots of us out there think the same... What the Gov. say is a load of crock ....

Helen Bamberger ● 2254d

Dear JillI am sorry to hear that you are feeling so depressed which at this very difficult time is not surprising.My advice to you is to leave the heating switched on, pour yourself a nice drink, wrap yourself in a duvet and start reading the notable former residents thread.Before you have got very far with this you will realise that you don’t have to do any of the things that other people have because you are already notable and are now feeling sleepy.When you have slept well and are nice and warm, you may even decide to undertake an adventure which will make you even more notable.With very best wishes from Auntie

Rima Jones ● 2254d

Sorry pal, but if you want sunshine and heat you’d better move to Reno, Nevada. Where blue skies and heat in the summer months are always on-tap. The UK has not had proper seasonal weather for 10yrs I recon. My heating was on full pelt last night. :-(

c james ● 2253d

Climate change..........

Rima Jones ● 2253d

Climate change, it’s a global leftwing liberal agenda designed to control the masses or sheep for want of a better word.

c james ● 2253d

I know lots who find autumn their favourite time of year.  I loathe it.  Sod the beauty and glorious colours of the fall.  I loathe the gathering gloom and the darkness.  The damp and the cold.  The lack of sunshine.  The pavements and the wet leaves.  And the closing down.  September's not good.  October's the pits.One of my favourite times of the year is New Year's Eve.  Because next day it'll be January, even if it's still mid-winter.  The nights have just started to draw out and spring is on the horizon. And the snowdrops begin to appear.Before long there are early daffodils and then it's March and April..May 1st is sheer bliss, no matter the weather.

Stuart Kerr ● 2253d

c James, your answer in a few treads on here are referring to left-wing propaganda and I conclude you are an US "alien" on British shores. So if you think it is better in USA, don't let anybody stop you to go back and I am sure Donald will welcome you among his decibels.

Silvia Kinner ● 2253d

Well take it as you find it.Increasingly extreme weather conditions.Too hot, too cold,. Too wet, too dry. Too windy, airless........Be prepared and philosophical. No point in letting it get us down.Look at what’s happening globally.

Rima Jones ● 2253d

Oh Stuart!I am the almost polar opposite of you! I hate and detest hot, muggy weather like we had the other week, sheer misery for me - and it buggers your hair up too! Whereas from Septemnber on I am in heaven, the weather is atmospheric and you can always warm up whereas cooling down is much more difficult. As for New Year's Eve I cannot stand it - all that false bonhomie and how things will be better - which they rarely are, different numbers - same sh*t! But I reckon as I was born into absolutely atrocious weather - one of the worst winters in memory - that's why I am more suited to the cold, well that's my theory anyway!

Vanessa Smith ● 2253d

Can it be just a couple of weeks ago we were moaning about the sweltering 30+ heat?

V Killick ● 2253d

The day before yesterday we were at the seaside (in the UK) and it was hailing...  but yesterday it wasn't quite as miserable...Time has been really weird this year with all the occasions that have been put on hold - the birthday celebrations that weren't a physical gathering for us all including one which was virtual with a rug on the lawn with teddy bears and four candles on the cake.  We have now walked miles and I mean it - we are now on our way back from Land's End milewise.It is a real effort to get out sometimes for what is sometimes just a walk around the park and back but there is usually something interesting - an interesting building - a plaque on a building for someone we've never heard of or something we never knew - do you know where Pooh Bear was born, a tree we've never seen before and which we'll identify later, a plant, a caterpillar, different ways of designing a garden or car space - the best and the worst.  We photocopied a page from the A-Z and are colouring in the streets we've done. We've then researched further on the internet a little of the social history of garden suburbs.The bulb magazines are now dropping through the door and maybe when it is just too wet it is time to start planning for some bulbs to come through in the spring.  Somebody planted little daffodils around some of the street trees a couple of years ago and I'm hoping to see them again and that the contractors haven't pulled them up.  Each time I've seen them growing a bit more I've given a silent thank you to whoever planted them for this promise of better things to come.

Philippa Bond ● 2253d

Coming back to the opening thread- Jill I hope are not so bleak for you today- again I say there are so many people out there are finding things difficult-  I think your thought ‘ not another walk ‘ made me so agree with you.

Helen Bamberger ● 2253d

He he...We always do the same thing NYE.  Sit-down feast for about eight and only the very oldest friends, none of us expecting owt better in life  than copious cocktails, 3 courses with great cheeses, madeira and fab wines throughout and loads of wit and laughter.Next day I wake with the muvver of all hangovers - which is the starting gun for Dry January, two months of strict diet (1000 calories a day max) no cheese no red meat and (fingers crossed) a big drop in the weight (10 kilos minimum) & cholesterol department.  This is my self-inflicted punishment for the fun I had all summer and the comfort stuff I sank all autumn and Xmas.Off to watch the cricket now.  Tabard Pilgrims v Chiswick... conclusion of the big two-day test match..

Stuart Kerr ● 2253d

That's when you stay in and do the research!

Philippa Bond ● 2253d

and I've just mended a belt which is very satisfying.

Philippa Bond ● 2253d

Well, I'm not much better today, to be honest. My hopes were briefly raised this morning with a glimpse of some patchy blue sky and a smidgeon of sun. But they were dashed pretty quickly. Heating's on and a hot bath beckons. G-r-r-r-r, b-r-r-r-r and a few choice profanities uttered and muttered. Fed up!

Jill Merrett ● 2253d

I enjoyed this this morning:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-45450928We used to have one that came in after us when we swam.

Philippa Bond ● 2253d

Well I’ve managed to do quite a lot so far today. Chores. Catching up with people, research. Posted another astonishing Chiswickian on the long thread. Good lunch and now since it isn’t too hot, not raining and wind calmed down, out to clip the front hedge.When I’ve had enough of that I’ll have a nice rest.

Rima Jones ● 2253d

Sorry everyone but when  one is feeling incredibly low and shit - it is impossible to do anything other than just feel awful- I do know from very past experience  so I think I just know what Jill is going through... you are not alone - Jill hope feelings get better soon.

Helen Bamberger ● 2253d

Well the sun is shining now and it is often warmer outside than it is inside.  I find there are always plenty of things to do - we would always be sent off to tidy our bedrooms so now it is usually a drawer or clean out the fridge, put the tins of food in date order (or rather out of date order ready to use up), work out what's for supper and what to make for the days ahead. Fix/mend/wash something. I don't find that wallowing actually helps much - apart from a bath, hairwash and cutting of nails!  I used to use music a lot when down starting with Leonard Cohen then Dylan from where there is nowhere to go but - up.

Philippa Bond ● 2253d

It is NOT wallowing Phillipa

Helen Bamberger ● 2253d

Im glad im not one of your children Philippa. You having read your threads for many many years i think would make by day blooming hell. Infact the whole week me thinks 😆

Julian Pavey ● 2253d

Jill, sometimes when I get fed up with our pathetic excuse for a summer, I go on to Youtube and have a look at walks around Chania (Crete), one of my favourite towns. They are posted almost daily, and I recognize the streets, shops and tavernas, and look forward to when I will be there again next year. It works for me.

Colin Jordan ● 2253d

I happen to get depressed with a lack of sunlight and need to take Vitamin D as most of us need to and should do in this country.  A wallow in the bath with some TLC is definitely relaxing and revitalising. It is one of the best bits of self-help there is.  Distracting yourself is another. 

Philippa Bond ● 2253d

Oh Phillippa I only hope you never never have to experience the terrible experience of real real depression getting in a warm bath or vitamin d  is not the answer when you are going through it.  it needs kindness and understanding.

Helen Bamberger ● 2253d

I am with you all the way Jill but I want more than blue sky, I want heat, lots of it but in the meantime, I will now go and put my central heating on which I had held back on doing in the fear of being classed as a wimp

Eve Fay ● 2253d

Make sure you're getting enough sleep, Jill, not having enough (which happens frequently when my back is playing up) makes me depressed.  Fortunately it is about the only thing, I actually like this weather, I hated the intense heat recently, made it virtually impossible to work or do much else apart from sunbathe and I only get an hour's sun a day on my garden due to huge trees in neighbour's gardens. It's a great time to sort the house, catch up on work and admin.

Claire Moran ● 2253d

What an open and heartfelt thread. Reminding us all that we are a community. We bicker, we moan, we get above ourselves and we’re all full of opinions. Myself included. And a few others too. It’s cold. It’s miserable in a lot of ways. Taking pleasure in small things like a smile, a pleasant interaction.  Allow yourself the freedom to be glum. Everyone is glum at some point but it will change for most people. And turning on the heating certainly helps!

Stewart Jones ● 2253d

But your interactions, Stewart, are always negative. Mostly about Brexit and the government.  I think you should take your own words to heart.

Claire Moran ● 2253d

Never mind Jill , I can’t have my Sept holiday. It is apparently 17 weeks till Xmas . Then another week till New Year , maybe 2021 will be heaps better. You are right though it is bloody cold for August  Brrrrrrrrr

Maureen Yakoubi ● 2253d