Published on 12, July, 2020
Anyone else have this?
Where most look forward to ever more daylight, it's around now that I start to miss in advance the clear delineation between day and night. That first evening leaving work and it's still daylight depresses me profoundly in a way I can't quite explain. The aggressive insistence of Spring I suppose.
I'm really going to miss my 4.30 pm twilights, but I suppose if we had our personal favourite seasons (autumn/winter in my case) all year round we'd never appreciate them to the extent we do.
Anyone else understand/have this reversal of the more conventional form of SAD? It's not that I won't get *something* out of the warmer months of flourishing nature, but witnessing Spring's birthpains is like an assault on the senses. Daffodils kind of disgust me - they're so raw, the early shock troops of the season, forced out of the soil into cold harsh misery and screaming in pain. Crocuses too. Like the visual equivalent of being near chopped raw onions or something. Snowdrops at least look more pleasant and delicate, but they're so impertinently 'early' - can we just have winter for now please, thanks? Anyone get this, or am I just sounding insane?
I'm really worried about tonight's weather but I might've misunderstood. I find it hard to understand the BBC weather pages. Normally, what I *think* is the symbol that shows the strength of the wind reads from, say, 9 up to something like 17 (which is very windy) in my area; but tonight from twelve o'clock it reads 40(!) Surely I must have got this wrong? - there's only a Met Office weather-warning in place for rain, not wind.
Think someone's done a typo there! The modern equivalent of Michael Fish sticking up a magnetic 'GOF' on the live broadcast. Although there are weather warnings, nothing seems too extreme.
It could be that. Do you mind if I send you a link to the BBC page, mate?