OK, so it's winter according the meteorological calendar and time for the compulsory moans, groans and gloats thread, especially as the current output isn't good for those of us who want snow any time soon.

It's looking like more of the wet grey stuff for me and not a single flake of white on the horizon!  What's new? 

Pros of a mild winter = Less heating and not quite so much in the way of condensation indoors.
Con of a mild winter = It's always bloody windy.

Crazy that I saw snow the other week up in Newcastle with an ice day, and yet down here in balmy Portsmouth I saw this brugmansia plant in flower still on 1st December! 😂

  I thought I'd get in there quickly!  You see, I'm usually the one doing most moaning and gloating and I need something to do during the long nights! 

Winter is over!

Well, technically it ended in 2012.  

No signs this autumnspring will be any different to the last few round here.   Mild dross all round. 

But maybe if it is like 2013 we will get a day of sleet in March.

It is a new wellingtons winter weather wearing time. 

Good idea Caz and it'll help the MO thread 

Very mild down here, still have bedroom windows open ever so slightly at night, it's been as mild as many of our Summer nights......Doesn't feel like Winter that's for sure 

But ye never know Andy?.That's what makes it great.

We are so lucky to be under the weather we have at any time of the year,

Always changing and interesting.

Still ,ye can't beat a good oul' moan down the shops

Sure, what else would we talk about..

I know the feeling 😊

Perhaps we could meet up and do nothing together? 😀

I have a feeling this thread will be well-populated for the next few weeks lol

That reminds me moomin, I may have to stock up on some coals for the BBQ for Christmas Day if this mild theme continues (IMBY).

Seconded

If I thought it would be nearly warm enough,I'd do it for fun.I really would.

I get pretty fed up with the weather here too, but the thing is, this isn't normal. It isn't supposed to rain nearly every day, and the amount of sunshine we've had over the past month has been atrociously low. A normal UK winter is pretty cloudy but November 2015 was cloudier than even the cloudiest winter months tend to be.

I was starting to miss August recently though, and those pleasantly warm 20-23C days that seemed to prevail throughout the month.. at this stage I don't care if it's cold or not, just wish it was dry and maybe some sunshine to brighten things up.. but it's really hard to get a mild, dry, sunny set up in December. Come February it's pretty easy.

The usual dross!

I am sick of the winters we have in NW Europe, utterly, utterly, utterly sick of them!

Here I am in Scandinavia, in Denmark and this morning it is mild, grey, wet, drizzle, just like it gets at home.

Sick! Sick! Sick! Sick of it!

Winter after winter is just totally and completely useless! Pointless!

Sick! Sick! Sick!

Glad to get that off my chest!

lost count of the number of times I have heard elderly people commenting on the weather in winter and saying "well at least it isnt snowing" .....