Can't deal with the rain

[Countrygirl2021]

Trivial yes but actually genuinely getting me down. At the risk of sounding pathetic, I'm really affected by the weather and light. I use a Lumi light box alarm clock to wake me up as I struggle to wake in the dark and I find myself so much happier in the summer.

Our family are really outdoorsy. Im most definitely not a lie in bed and watch TV type.

I can't cope with the lack of spring and constant rain. I've just walked the dogs and felt genuinely sad and frustrated that it's unrelenting. We live rurally so I have all the waterproofs so I wasn't wet but it's so I pleasant. I dread taking them out and it's normally my special time. My kitchen and boot room are caked in mud from kids and dogs. I'm washing two dog towels a day and I'm one step from buying the chickens wellies. We are still going out walking but honestly I can't spend another weekend not able to do the garden and being stuck indoors.

I know it's a first world problem and on the scheme of things really unimportant but it's really affecting my mood that I can't take any more rain and cold weather.

I get you. I'm not convinced there exists an item of clothing that makes going out in the driving rain pleasant let alone sitting and enjoying a meal in it. It's shit.

Yeah

It’s getting me down and I AM a lazy type

I feel the same. I have to walk 3.2 miles in the afternoon to collect my DC from school and I’m like a drowned rat every day. It’s absolutely hideous.

It's just so relentless.

Yup its really affecting my mood, been having a really hard time health wise but doing well keeping my mood ok ish until the last few days, its making me feel so miserable.

Same OP. I hate it. Why do we live in this shitty (weather) country!

Yep same
Its miserable 🌧☔

Apparently it’s here until Hurricane Anna gets her act together and blows the Gulf Stream out of the way.

Or something.

I used to feel like you, as of course rain is unpleasant, but it helped me to change how I thought about it. This was inspired by an italian colleague of mine and she made the point of “but the rain is the reason this country is so green and beautiful”, she says that in her opinion, while the weather they get in italy is delightfully warm and sunny, things tend to get very dry and dull because of this (obviously there are green parts of Italy) and detracts slightly from the natural beauty. She really changed the way I look at or think about rain. Yes while it may be unpleasant so be smacked in the face with driving rain that we seem to get a lot of, without it we wouldn’t have the gorgeous green fields, trees and wonderful wild flowers that are abundant in our countryside. I’ll put up with some rain for that 🙂

It’s the wind I hate, wind makes everything shit.

Its appalling OP and I'm both active and appreciative of a duvet day in equal measures. This is not equal. The only saving grace in my personal situation is that I am writing my dissertation and haven't had to observe everyone else enjoying the sunshine. Fuck this weather.

Are you me? I feel an almost physical craving for bright sunlight-I suffer really badly from SAD, and am like a different person in the sunshine.
I know that at the moment a very vocal part of MN will think I’m some sort of granny murderer, but this is why I went abroad in the winter (yes I know there’s a pandemic!) as that one week of sunshine carries me through the winter without yet another mental health crisis

The poor weather has been relentless; nothing but grey skies for days and now we have gale force winds. It’s almost June and yet the heating is still coming on and I haven’t been able to pack away any winter weather gear. It’s miserable, I usually live spring but at the moment it feels more like November.

I'm getting really hacked off by not being able to get on with jobs in the garden. The rain seems to work like steroids on weeds, and they're multiplying so fast my borders, which were clear 4 weeks ago, are practically covered in weeds again now.

And I need to feed the lawn, but I need 2 days of no rain for the stuff to work properly. No rain? No bloody chance!

Totally agree OP - it’s really hard to keep going in the rain - a very good friend died at the weekend and it’s rained everyday since - thinking back to A-Level English I think that’s called Pathetic Fallacy (King Lear? Is that the right term?) - raining outside, raining inside too. The light evenings are helpful though, despite the rain - this weirdly would be worse in winter if it was dark and rainy and my friend died.

That’s actually rubbish, it wouldn’t be worse in winter, it’s devastating and pretty shit

It's shit.

If it makes you feel any better, it isn't just the UK. Talking to colleagues in Germany and France yesterday and it's crap there as well. We were all switching on our heating! 😒

Same here. Gave birth in November at start of lockdown. Go back to work 1 June. I thought at least May would be nice as stuff is slightly more open. But no, it’s shit. I’m really struggling. If it was sunny everything would feel so much better.

Same. We have to wait outside school both morning and afternoon due to covid to pick up and drop off and I'm sick of it. School make the kids wait on the playground in the rain too, which seems hugely unfair.

Totally agree. It's just depressing

I don't mind rain it's the shitting wind I can't stand! It gives me the absolute rage.

It’s depressing as is the cold.

It's awful. We're still wearing jumpers and the heating is on. And I've just remembered I left the rain sodden buggy in the car boot yesterday.

Spring is my favourite season so I'm really pissed off! It's usually my chance to enjoy some nicer weather, just needing a hoodie rather than full weather gear on the school run before my severe hayfever comes along and ruins all of summer for me causing me to need to hide inside.

I dont mind a bit of rain here and there, but why is it so bloody windy!! Raining constantly in my area for about 2 weeks running and seems like next week wont be any different

I know we need to wait for the jet stream to move and push colder weather north allowing warmth from Africa to creep up. I just wish it would bloody get a move on.

I feel the same. May is often the best month of the year and the garden comes to life. It’s way behind this year. Usually I would be out doing loads of gardening and sitting out with a cuppa. This year I’m inside in my jumper.

The rain can just piss off! It’s got its place but JUST NOT IN MAY!!! May is usually the best month in terms of sunshine and temperature here in Scotland. But it feels like it’s May masquerading as bloody November! Even my DS’s football lessons this afternoon have been cancelled.

Woke up this morning to thr patio furniture blown over, so many leaves ans seeds and shit blown over thr patio making it filthy, driving rain and not helped by the squirrels having tried to bury stuff in thr patio pots, leaving mud everywhere.

And the grass is getting really long and no chance of cutting it as it’s so wet, everything is getting full of weeds, as the hard rain and intermittent sun is making everything grow like crazy,

We had a new gazebo put in a couple of weeks ago and all we habe been able to do is sit under it briefly in thr pissing rain. First world problem,,

It’s supposed to be like this for another week till bank holiday weekend,