How do you deal with the winter blues?

Alcohol, lots and lots of alcohol. Oh, and wanking obviously.

Posted about 1 year ago by Morals

I’m totally a winter person. What’s not to like? Cosy pubs with roaring fires and a nice glass of red, roast dinners, ice skating at all the cool outdoor rinks, being able to walk home from work without getting sweaty and/or sunburnt (the last summer notwithstanding). Winter clothes are cooler (coats! boots! scarves!) and I love the winter ‘party season’. Then there’s Christmas, and then the January sales! bring it on.

Posted about 1 year ago by agox

I try to think about it from a positive perspective. There’s Christmas to look forward to, fireworks night, the chance to hide in gloomy corners and then pounce on people, dressing up as Santa and getting little children to sit on your knee, mistletoe, preying on drunk women staggering out of work parties, being able to vomit copiously wherever you like with impunity. The list is endless.

this is www.perv.com isnt it

Posted about 1 year ago by pottytime

When you move home, try and find somewhere with an open fire. They’re a bit of a hassle but unbeatable on a chilly night,

I’m with agox, but I suspect the problem lies in most of the English winter not being that wintery. All we get is day after day of dullness and damp and drizzle and a sky that, as Bill Bryson wryly noted, made the English winter akin to living in Tupperware. At least we currently have Fireworks night and Christmas parties to look forward to. The worst month by a long scarf is surely February; a month whose only redeeming feature is the fact that it is one or – a rare treat – two days shorter than others. I utterly despise February.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

I have this problem. It gets better in summer but as there wasn’t one I feel like sticking pins in myself at the moment. Currently, only options to get through it are red wine, running, food, and staring at the TV under a blanket. I am now staring mindlessly at my PC as my boss just had a very long dialogue about work and what we needed to do. If there’d been a summer I’d have smiled and agreed with every word he said. As it is I argued in a futile depressed kind of way.
One of my friends is moving to Australia as she can’t stand the weather here anymore. I’ve been told those light lamp things work but not convinced.

when will it be over

Posted about 1 year ago by ellie

I hate it too. I think the only thing to do is grit your teeth and look forward to next summer.

Horrible cold wet weather.

Horrible families at Christmas.

Horrible alcohol poisoning.

So many parties that you start not wanting to go to another fucking party.

Dark at 3.30.

Getting drizzled on while some idiot fails to light the blue touch paper.

No annual leave left even if you want to fuck off somewhere hot.

Bloody, bloody new year’s eve – there’s nothing quite as depressing as forced jolliness except perhaps luncheon meat.

I hope this has helped.

Posted about 1 year ago by Natasha

The only thing I’m looking forward to this winter is being able to go to a pub without them having to leave the windows open for all the sodding smokers.

Posted about 1 year ago by LittleEmily

I like winter.

Pies. Beer. Pies made with beer. Beer and mince pies. Hot toddies. Mulled wine. Stockings. Fairy lights. Oranges. Chocolate money. Parties. Tinsel. Miseltoe. Kilts. Kilted sausages.

yum

Posted about 1 year ago by purpaboo

I like winter, I just hate the darkness and the dreariness. A snowy, bright winter is infinitely better than a gray non-committal one. There are many more suicides in the scandinavian countries during gray winters than there are during snowy, for good reason.

I deal with it by become depressed and lethargic, and ocassionally hitting people.

Posted about 1 year ago by MonkeysAhoy!

There’s nothing wrong with winter. Embrace it. You get to wear better clothes, men stop wearing horrid shorts and put proper trousers back on. It’s not all sweaty all the time and people smell nicer.

try a sunlamp

Posted about 1 year ago by Flashboy

Alcohol. Prozac. Valium. Good-quality cheese/chocolate. (I would expand on my reasons for UTTERLY FUCKING HATING WINTER and the nut-wrenchingly annoying/nauseating shite associated with it, but Natasha summed it up better than I could ever hope to.)

Posted about 1 year ago by SuckMonster

Oh wow – praise from my secret internet crush, I am all giggly now.

Posted about 1 year ago by Natasha

BNM – I think you meant ‘normally 2, but regularly only 1 day shorter than the rest of the months’. February really is a shit.

I’d say that I quite like winter, but Sky has just displayed ‘LOKUARACHICHI TO COOK’ and my mind went straight to a tropical barbecue rota, so perhaps I am pining for some hot weather after all.

Posted about 1 year ago by esotericbadger

Go to the southern hemisphere during the months of January- March, if at all possible.

If not possible, go to tropical-themed bars and parties, watch steamy films set in sultry places, find someone to snuggle in with on those long winter evenings, or do wholesome 70s – inspired Swedish-y things like making meatballs, taking up knitting, playing board games, or dancing around the house to Abba.

can you tell i adore the film tillsammans

Posted about 1 year ago by LitroK

find a big snorkel-hooded parka and don’t come out of it til May.

Easy!

long live kenny

Posted about 1 year ago by MrsMoo

I have the same problem, my solution is to get outside at every opportunity, especially if the sun comes out. For the last 2 years I’ve made a concerted effort to at least drink my tea outside at lunchtime during the winter, even if I have to dress up in so many layers I look like a tellytubby to do so. That extra bit of light exposure seems to help a lot.

I also got one of those alarm clocks that simulates sunrise. I still have to use the alarm on it, but it does help.

Posted about 1 year ago by widget

I find kicking the crap out of things helps.

February is much better than January: 1. Not as skint 2. Legitimate breaking of all NY resolutions without feeling like a dismal, appalling failure 3.Nearer summer 4.My birthday

kung fu makes you all hot and sweaty thus giving the illusion of summer in the tropics. gin ahoy

Posted about 1 year ago by KungFuLuLu

Do those lightboxes do any good? At the moment I’m sleepwalking through the day feeling like my eye sockets are filled with dough and then filling my mouth sockets with actual real dough on pretty much continuous rotation. Ho ho ho-besity!

Posted about 1 year ago by KinkyFantastic

Some people think lightboxes work, although my (very young) doctor was very sceptical.

I suffer from SAD as well and think that the only way to get through it is eat shit, drink lots, feel sorry for yourself and wait for spring!

Posted about 1 year ago by robram

My husband has just purchased a light box for the forth coming winter months, I wonder if it will cure him of being a grumpy old git as well?

I am enjoying these wonderful autumn days at the moment (but I do have the bonus of not being in an office for 8 hours a day). I know it is dark by 5pm but the rest of the day is great when the sun is shining. Come to Epping forest and have a leaf kicking walk, that’ll lift your spirits. Ask Kungfululu to come, she likes kicking things!

Of course in a few weeks time it will be dark for 24hours with an accompanying dampness that leaves you chilled to the bones and your hair in an uncontrollable frizz.

Posted about 1 year ago by spanky