To wish this rain would bugger off!

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I know there's a hosepipe ban and we need it and eveything but I've got one ruined pair of Ugg boots and a toddler who needs her outside time or she goes a bit crazy :) Forecast to be pouring down for the whole weekend and into next week :(

If it rains when it's the school run again, I shall cry

You could always get a rain hood

I might need one for todays school run and some wellies

I'm with you. I hate standing at the bus stop in the rain hood and umbrella or not and getting splashed by passing traffic while waiting for bus while is invariably late or non existent in the rain. School run in a bit too

pumpkinsweetie I have a 'rain coat' but it rained so hard it soaked through and soaked all my clothes. Maybe I need to get one of those plastic things you wear on the log boat at Alton Towers

I was thinking of wearing a 'Hayley Cropper corination street' raincoat along with an old ladys plastic rainhood as every day i have got in from school run me & the kids have been soaked to the bone

I'm looking out of the window and hoping it eases off a bit before I have to go and get the DCs. And I've turned the heating back on (rats) as it feels so clammy.

I like the rain! Listening to it dropping onto the window, DD splashing in puddles, loads of fun!

Wash your uggs , mine regularly get ruined by the rain .

British people are obsessed with the weather

I say this as a British person!

Don't really mind this weather myself, I have a pond so can see it filling up, which is presumably happening to the reservoirs too. I think this visual reminder makes me not mind so much, and I know you said you know that we need it OP but you're just so fed up and for that reason YANBU at all, because constant rain isn't fun even if you need it.

I just hope it improves for bank holiday weekend because we're having a big outdoor party

bishboschone Can you wash Uggs???? Tell me more :)

Would adopting "There's no such thing as bad weather only inappropriate clothing" as your motto help? I've been reciting it as a mantra, it's not working yet.
I think Johnson's dry cleaners 'do' Uggs.

Johnsons that is, no apostrophe.

Yes wash them .. I'm a dry cleaner and the other shop don't dry clean them , they wash them . I can tell you how I do mine if you want .

YABU for wearing Uggs. Get some wellies, for yourself and your toddler. My toddler loves going outside in the rain in her wellies and raincoat and splashing in puddles.

We both have wellies but my Uggs got ruined in the two-seasons in a day weather where you go out in bright sunshine and end up in a downpour. I do take my dd out in the rain but not torrential downpours and thumderstorms as was happening when I posted!

bishboschone yes please!

'thunderstorms' even

The annoying thing is that this rain won't replenish the reservoirs. It'll take next winter's rain to sort out the problem.

I love rain really but dd goes to school 4 miles away. I have a bus and a 40 minute walk in order to do the school run and then the same home again. Chuck in a recalcitrant 4yo who's tired after school, a baby in a sling and it's actually annoying me, a rain lover. I've broken 4 umbrellas since Christmas, we're renovating the house and muddy wellies and sopping raincoats all over the place are just adding to my general crossness. I'm also struggling with getting stuff dry. Can't use the line and the renovations mean it's too dusty to hang indoors. I need a dry day a week. But it's rained every day for a fortnight here.

TreksAndBugsAndWaterVoles had a look on the website. Learn something new every day :) No more spending silly money on replacing dirty Uggs!

Well mine are deckers uggs. ( real ones ) so sheepskin . I presume you mean these . I have quite a few pairs but I have washed them all a few times as I get water marks from the rain. I wash them on a delicate setting with a wool wash detergent ( liquid) . Spray tye tide mark first with some vanish . If when the cycle has finished they are still wet ( delicate has a shorter spin) spin again so they are not sopping wet . Get them out and stuff them with newspaper to reshape and dry UNDER a radiator . Not on as they will mark again . It near some sort of heat source l( like a fire) . Mine came up like new the first time as they were horribly marked . I try not to wash them too often as it does take the life out I them a bit but they do wash up like new .. If you do a search there are many threads on washing uggs and I was very scared the first time despite my profession . After all they cost a lot of money , but they are fine .

Ps , if they have any marks from the drum when wet just smooth the material flat before drying otherwise they will dry with little circles on them .

ShowOfHands here too. A nice dry day would be very welcome!