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Me ...... November.
October - can be nice weather (like this year)
November - wet, bloody miserable and nothing going for it
December - Xmas
January - Hopefully cold and crisp, spring is on it's way
Feb - Spring is closer still (and it's a short month)
March - stuff starts growing
April to Sept - spring/summer so all is good with the world.
Depends where I am, it's possible to be miserable all year round 😉
August, i have to buy the wife birthday presents and wedding anniversary presents !
Definitely November it's got nothing going for it
august, September and October have been a complete bastard for me this year............but I normally embrace all the seasons with open arms.
Jan and Feb is a close second.
I don't really like Xmas, but at least the hump is buried in there and I will admit it's nice to have some time off work when everyone else is off, not that I get much these days.
Jan just sucks arse though, cold, dark, miserable and wet, the only positive thing about it is that if I look at the charts I can get the days are getting a bit longer, Feb can really go either way, sometimes the weather is worse than Jan.
October probably, it's got no flavour of its own so I just end up noticing the crap bits of other months- the weather's not that bad but it tends to feel worse, there's still undergrowth overgrowth which I hate, and I'm not adapted to it yet so everything feels worse than yesterday. (also, quite a lot of our trails are in the crappy transition stage where the dust and hard dirt is collapsing into shitty mud, it improves as winter goes on)
But mostly, because it's a crappy compromise month I'm never adapted to it. November I'm fine with because it doesn't tend to muck about.
January, it's a dark, long and dirty month.
November.
I was born in November.
Each one that comes around reminds me I'm another year older.
Each one that comes around reminds me I'm another year older.
and that you have to turn the heating on........... 😆
Definitely November. To my recollection its always rain of varying degrees and darkness. Utterly miserable.
Feb can be tough.
Freezing cold, wet and muddy everywhere and the novelty has long worn off.
January. Xmas has come and gone, invariably skint, usually rubbish weather.
On a more positive note, April is my fav. Warmer, lighter and normally drier.
Yep Jan for me too, closely followed by Feb, for all those reasons above. However, I had a weeks skiing last Jan which was so enjoyable, I'm doing it again this year. Great time to have a week away....if you can afford it!
March.
No chance of snow or frost or winter prettiness, still ages til it gets warm and the leaves come out, all we get is storms, wind, and crap. Sure stuff starts growing, but all you get is some shitty daffodils, then they die and nothing else happens. Even then the whole word is muddy and dead, a few foolhardy flowers pushing up does nothing for me. Who the hell do they expect to be around pollenating them anyway.
November and February, which is why I try to spend both abroad. It was 36C yesterday...
haha, I don't have a most disliked month because:
May: 2 weeks of Summer
June-April: wet, bloody miserable and nothing going for it
Therefore May is my favourite month and I dislike all the others equally.
March.
BST kicks in in March....definitely something to look forward to!
February
I generally detest this time of year and am usually in a foul mood until the last couple of weeks of February.
I was out on Saturday after a two week break from the trails. The covering of leaves has slowed everything down hugely, so making progress comes down to stamina and willpower. Add wet, green chalk into the mix and you'll be wistfully daydreaming of dusty summer trails in no time.
Having said that, bikes are ace and I'd rather be outside for a couple of hours in the freezing, slippery mud than staring out of a grey-tinged window.
Is it Spring yet?
Feb usually clinging on for dear life by then.
I love them all!
Probably December, seeing family at Christmas is great but build up is a nightmare of gift buying stress and crowds. Jan-March is skiing so the thought of a trip or two always brightens the spirit. Riding wise I generally did more in winter than summer as was always busy with sailing in the summer months. Each of the seaons offers something and autumn is a lovely time of year. When I lived in Singapore the biggest negative was the same weather and sun rise/set all year round. That and too hot.
Washtember.
February.
shite weather, dark, skint. All i can remember is that last 18months of winter, spring and summer still bloody ages away. And yes, the changing of the calendar is a stark reminder that i'm another year older, but somehow further away from the life i want.
And because of my stupid RP accent, I can't even pronounce the word properly.
('Febwhe-eh' is about as close i can get)
BST kicks in in March....definitely something to look forward to!
Yeah but that's near the end.
December - humbug.
Aside from actual Christmas spent with family, it's hideous bombardment of commercial Christmas tat. Bad enough ramping up to it in October and November but can at least avoid much of it. December just can't watch TV, go into any shops or even go into work without "festive" bollox going on. And don't get me started on work Christmas do's! and then there's bloody "everyone get pissed and act like t**ts just because a number rolls over on the calendar" to look forward to 👿
😛
December. Darkest of the wettest dark.
July is often most disappointing, though.
January - christmas is over and suddenly there it is five weeks of blackness with no money and loads of work and rain, lots of rain.
Yeah but it still might snow. That keeps me going in Jan/Feb.
Jan, Feb & Mar.
Still dark.
Still cold.
Still wet.
Winter basically..
Nothing really perks up till April IMHO.
January. Lots of people give up drinking in January, but I can't think of a worse month to do it in.
November runs it very close for crapness.
December - or at least, the bit up to Xmas Eve.
Gets darker, colder and wetter.
Too many people old enough to know better getting hyped over Christmas, which generates a raft of extra events to fit in as a family, which this year includes 5 music concerts, 2 school musical productions, 3 Scout/Guide/Brownie Christmas events, plus I lose 3 evenings a week and two weekends coordinating our Scout Christmas fundraiser as every other bugger is "busy"!
Don't begrudge any of it, but just so glad when it is over.
Oh and bloody Secret Santa at work. Yes, just had the email. Stuff that.
January is great. Days getting longer, no family/work events, no Christmas bollox, so it's loads of time for riding and people have new bikes 😀 , and we're into ski season. If lucky, may even get snow on the trails.
November here . Snow hasn't come but it's icey and very cold. Kind of neither here nor there month
January for me, I reckon. Cold, wet, dark & spent loads of money over Christmas so always stretching it by payday in Jan 😆
Nov comes a close second in terms of the weather & general meh feel about the whole thing!!
Oktember
March. Winter's gone on too long, the days are getting longer but it's still cold and windy.
July.
I love Autumn and Winter.
Feb can be tough.Freezing cold, wet and muddy everywhere and the novelty has long worn off.
This. Without a doubt.
scotroutes - Member
November.
I was born in November.
Each one that comes around reminds me I'm another year older.
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None,I am a man of all seasons me 🙂
December - Xmas
Feb. It was Feb when I wrote this a few years ago: http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?p=2183 and it's still Feb even tho I don't do that bike-train-bike commute anymore. You know the one where you see your fellow passengers hurrying into their warm, dry cars leaving you alone thinking 'I've got one of those at home'
Most years I sneak away for a week or so of MTBing in Spain this time of year. Sadly too much work on so I'm just counting down to BST. 122 days, 10 hours if anyone is interested....
December and January. Christmas is just a bore, the time off is its only benefit, and January is so dark and miserable. February I can go skiing so that helps and then the winter has been survived for another year.
November and Feb.
November is dark and wet, I still remember the dry trails and miss them and it feels like it will be ages until it improves. I also get annoyed that there were loads of things I wanted to do in the summer but didn't.
And Feb is when winter starts to drag, Christmas has come and gone and its still so dark and miserable. It all improves after Feb.
it would be January. always despair in January that its (xmas) all over, and that another year has ticked by, and the credit card bill is due and im always pig sick of sloppy dark cold rides that are still quite fun in Nov/Dec... This is why we always go SKIING!!! which i suppose makes it my favourite month!! so, err, February. mainly because of how its frigin spelt.
May. Swanning round like the 3-lettered bastard that it is.
RM.
November/December - Not the months in particular, but everythign in the run up to xmas becomes a military operation , like going for milk or something because of all the doom-preppers preparing for the apocalypse (xmas day)
November has bonfire night and I went biking in the snow on Saturday.
The answer is February: the last death throes of winter; it's still dark, cold and wet; Christmas is long-gone; you have a massive credit card bill. The only thing in its favour is its shortness.
Feb or August for different reasons, Feb can be cold and wet (I don't mind it too much if it is just cold) Aug can be too hot which affects me worse than the cold.
I'm reading a lot about credit card bills in Jan / Feb.
Spend less, honestly, just spend what you've got and not a penny more and avoid the bills, you'll be unhappy about it a lot longer than you were happy about buying whatever you bought.
Write a list (check it twice if you must) set a budget, it's not rocket surgery. If your loved ones really love you, they won't want you getting into debt to buy them someting.
December - Xmas
Pubs full of Office Nights Out - yeah you're right pal, cardboard antlers and a flashing red nose show what a wacky and fun dude you are.
December as it now starts in November.
Spring and Autumn ...
Spring - the birds start to roost on the tree as a result my car which is park under the tree is full of bird shite.
Autumn - as the weather changes the trees start to drop their leaves as a result my car is buried under tonnes of leaves.
😮
February - short but nasty!
November. It's just ****ing shit.
Torn between November and February really.
November means that the depths of winter are coming, work is getting ridiculously busy and I hate the whole run-up to xmas consumerism crap.
February is just winter hanging on too long before spring makes a welcome return, the only upside is that it means I have the council tax money to spend on new bike stuff 😀
Probably go with November.
November. I really struggle with Autumn, everything is going downhill in relation to darkness, cold, etc. Darkness increases with every day, it's usually raining, and I seem to get allergy symptoms while all the dead leaves are about (maybe from mould spores). I don't find January an anticlimax, because by new year we've turned the corner to longer daylight hours. Christmas is ok but definitely not my favourite time of year.
November, after the joyful celebration of the brave but foiled attempt on the house of commons is a harsh month..
It's a jolt weatherwise, and if not handled correctly can lead to a bit of a precarious winter, worse case scenario being a suicidal February..
Gotta say that it's all coming up rosy this year though 🙂
February.
In January I'm still recovering from the holidays and don't tend to notice it so much, but by the time February rolls around I'm sick to death of the wet, cold and dark and start dreaming about moving closer to the equator.
August, the humid ****.
Thermidor - seafood? [i][b]again[/b][/i] ?
december. an expensive time.
- late nov, my sisters bday
- mid dec, my girlfriends bday
- xmas day
- late dec, my bday
plus trying to fit in all the xmas, new years related work + family visits etc..
not trying to be bah humbug as i'm not really, but it is a bit hectic
I was pondering this the other day.
November, closely run by January. February is saved by skiing.
It's a toss up between November & January. February is third.
November because it's getting cold, generally grey and miserable. January, well Christmas is done, back to work, spring a long way off. February much the same just a bit 'less'
By March things look up, spring is coming. April to September is all gravy.
October escapes as we always have a weeks holiday at half-term.
February.
I work outdoors and it is usually the coldest, wettest most grim month. The winter excitement has worn off and Spring is still a way off. Those first warming rays of sunshine that start to hint at the change of season appear sometime in March (usually) and give that first lift.
In oz its def Jan and Feb because its stinking stinking hot and they always seem to have site works programmed in then the gits. And you have to go ride at 4am otherwise you might actually die. Hmm and in the UK it might be the same for the opposite reasons.
Movember.
Or any other viral social media guilt trip/raising awareness.
January February and March. Because the weather is just cold and horrible.
February is the worst though.
2013- Grandpa died,step mum had a stroke, broke my leg.
2014- broke my finger
2016- Dog had to be put to sleep, fractured three ribs.
The early autumnal months aren't generally too bad. Although it is wet the ground is still generally quite firm. So for me it's January. Post Christmas and new year blues, plus I'll most likely be skint from enjoying myself in December and bar the odd frosty morning the trails have pretty much turned to shit in the south by then too. Psychologically I can handle February as it's shorter and feels like you're within touching distance of spring.
January , its MrsbeanZ birthday mid month - which she starts moaning about in November plus it's dark cold and seems to have 40 days .