laserguy

Nope - I was resigned to watching those darn sarf cop for all the fun and games whilst we got mainly dry with sunny spells. Ye I know what's coming..

For sure - the season of proper darkness and cold is over in the blink of an eye, yet many on here moan and wail about summer not lasting long enough. Sheesh - I don't know how they've got the cheek! It's the same with those folk who exclaim "it's raining again", when in reality it hasn't rained for weeks. Imagine if it really rained for weeks on end without a glimmer of sun, regularly? I'd love that and be laughing all the way, whilst most everyone else would be on medication.

It's getting there, but tedium is starting to set in.What I'd really like to see right now is a good ol' rain and wind storm.

It's alright for some, innit?

It's started like a bag of crap and way more akin to the season where this sort of rubbish belongs - the summer just gone.

Been wondering the same thing for oh, six days now. If we're squabbling about when summer ends, can we assume that this thread will be officially put to rest on Sept 21st or at the very latest Sept 23rd (equinox)? Great - we can concentrate on the serious business of winter then. And why the hell is September such a tedious month, weatherwise....?

Ye whatever. Absolutely bleedin' awful.

I'd say Silver Birch - or the first to start shedding them anyway.

Seeing as summer's gone, let's change the title to 'favourite European blue cheeses'. Mine's Dolcelatte.

Didn't see that as I very rarely visit that madhouse but by jingo he's right. How anyone fails to see it like that, I don't know. So when is the plug gonna be pulled on this thread?!

Look, let's have less of this nonsense - it's Autumn whether you like it or not. It wouldn't matter a jot if it was 30C and felt like mid-July. Would you put Xmas decorations up at that time of year and declare it to be Xmas because it feels like it? We could call any season whatever we liked if we were experiencing unseasonal conditions at any given time. So it's now Autumn - stop banging on about Summer, unless it's in the past tense - it's gone.

That's fine by me - I'll have given up on winter by then, there's too much light and things are rapidly heading in the wrong direction. It's now technically autumn and things are, or should be heading in the right direction so let's have less of all this extended summer nonsense.

Why y'all still talking about summer? It's over. And this fake autumn ought to get real. Ye I know it's only the second day, but still...

The polar bears must be doin' alright now - time to move on to other 'victims'. And what became of my original post where I drew attention to the commentors of the article in question referring to humans as 'a virus' and a 'cancer', and that they should volunteer to test treatments ? Was it offensive or inflammatory in some way, or just a little too near the knuckle?

Yuk! Isn't everyone sick to the back teeth of it still being light at that time? I know I certainly am!

What a horrible end to a horrible summer. It's dragging on like a chronic illness.

I'll take that as a compliment instead of getting all huffy and hitting the 'report' button, as some are inclined to do. Meanwhile I wish summer would do the decent thing and go away, and allow autumn to put paid to those dreadful, dreadful BBQs once and for all. Well, until the whole sorry cycle starts again in spring.

I've attended two, back in the days when I didn't know any better and non-appearance would have been awkward. Proper 'WTF am I doing here?' moments, never to be repeated despite who I might upset. Y'know how family and friends can get but stuff that. They'll get over it.

BBQs are the domain of dozy guys who wouldn't normally be seen dead near a cooker, but they see the BBQ as some expression of manliness. I really don't get it - there's nothing to be proud about wandering around in a pinny, scorching the outside of a few sausages and poisoning everyone in attendance and getting leathered on crappy supermarket lager, whilst stinking out the entire neighborhood. Anyways you know summer is on borrowed time when they start flogging off half price BBQs. They're at it already so that's an encouraging sign.

Ye I fully expected it to rear its ugly head again at some point - always happens, but this August did a particularly good job of making me believe that this year I might just get away with it. Ah well, I've still got the ever-darkening evenings as consolation....

Really?? They're changing now, and it's only 5 days early to be championing autumn if you want to split hairs. The only 'peak' of foliage that occurs in November is on the ground, 'cos by then most trees have shed the lot.

Ye they make me ill too, and I can't work 'em out anyway - like the England fans who continued to 'fly the flag' long after they'd been knocked out. Summer's had it's turn and been pretty good for those who like that sorta thing. I know we can't control the weather (try saying that on the climate change forum and you might get a ban) but the glorification of anything 'summery' at this juncture doesn't seem right at all, and is surely intended to annoy. With the leaves starting to fall it would be nice to have weather to match. Anything else is not necessarily 'wrong', just undesirable.

They're the best, but the whole Nov - Feb period will do fine. Outside that I just wanna hibernate. Can feel the ol' sap rising right now tho'.

Neither - was just having a larf to temper my mild disappointment when the alert was lowered just as things were starting to get interesting!

There's little between them, but I'd say the light. Excessive warmth is bad enough but I don't moan during a mild winter - at least the dark is guaranteed!