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 was reading that in the 1950s Britain experienced a run of particularly bad summers, broken in 1959. I asked my aunt about it and she remembered that they didn’t bother buying any summer clothes for several years and one year she wore her wellingtons all summer holidays. On coronation Day (June 1953) they had to light the fire it was so cold.

Anyone remember 2012? It was appalling (Royal barge ride in freezing temps) and everyone was afraid the Olympics would be a wash-out.

@OverTheRubicon

I agree, and think that people saying they're fine, appreciate the greenness etc aren't also appreciating the impact that the past year of lockdowns and covid has also had on some of us.

In the past I quite liked a reason to spend a week indoors catching up on books and snuggles with DCs. After the last year, I feel we've spent so much time cooped in, I work all day in the house, spend the weekends in the house, try to keep 3 young DCs entertained with the same toys and books they've been playing with endlessly, and with friends not allowed for playdates or anyone going out... It's pretty grim.

Bring on the dry weather and the reopening.

I think the people saying they’re fine with the weather are just saying they’re fine with the weather. Covid and the pandemic has been very hard on me as a new parent, with health issues. But the wet rainy weather really boosts my mood, I love it. We’re all different and it’s not universal to love the heat, and that’s okay :)

It’s been a horrible May, but I’m please it was not like this last year!! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a blazing hot June.

It’s crap. I’ve been off this week and only had one day with no rain. It’s so cold too, got pics of us at work last year, we were either just in shirts or shirts and cardies this time last year. This year, we’ve still got scarves on and still in our winter coats.

It’s relentless and depressing. Last year wasn’t hugely amazing here either (GM). Warm in May but then a couple of warm days and the rest was very patchy, no ‘heatwaves’. I’ve begged DH to let us look at living elsewhere as I really can’t take the next 30+ years of this.

Where is the spring? I don’t think it’s sprung yet

FFS it’s miserable!!! There’s no enjoyment to be had in this shite weather. Kids have got stinking colds from being in gale force 9 winds/heavy rain, garden is absolutely sodden. Literally trapped indoors, feels like bloody March

I'm sure it'll cheer up soon.
We always need rain and nobody can control it so we'll have to just get on with it and my family can all have a laugh at my miserable face when it does get hot.
( my dh and son like the hotter weather)
I admit that for May it is unusual to have so much windy weather.

I'm fed up with all this rain as well. Plus chilly wind. And hail!

Yanbu I hate it it really getting me down

Feel like we’ve been in February for 7 months .
It’s beyond depressing

I remember terrible British summers as a child, then 1976 came and it was three months almost of unbroken sunshine and the threat of droughts! It was a shock for us Brits!

We have horses. Winter has been ongoing for about five years by this point.

The energy companies must love this weather!

I've just fished my sun lamp out and used it. Feel a lot better from it too!

@sunshinepunch

Ok.....I think a little positivity would go a long way

.... wins the dumbest remark on MN today.

5 degrees here today. Had my hat on and winter jacket. Unbelievable🥶🥶🥶

I have every sympathy with retirees who bugger off to Spain

We don't even have that option now.

I think it's going to get warmer and drier next week.

‘The last 3 or 4 years we have had very warm summers’

Not round me we haven’t. Although a hot summer in the U.K. means the SE have had one and the rest of the country has been cold and wet.

I met a lady while out walking my charge today.

It was pelters. My trouser hems sucked up that much water (despite being covered with waterproofs) they were about a foot longer.

She told me her dogs don’t go out in the rain. They point blank refuse. In all my years of owning/dog-sitting/fostering dogs, I’ve never had one of those. They have all been desperate to get out whatever the weather.

Where do you buy these mythical hounds?

Absolutely hate it. We dont even have the promise of Christmas round the corner with this shit November weather

I’m a single mum of 2 little ones and I need to get them out everyday but this weather is making it so difficult

It might be my fault because I slashed out on outdoor furniture assuming most socialising would be in gardens this ‘summer’.

I lived abroad for years in many different places. Different weather conditions etc. Nowhere is as fucking unrelenting miserable as here. And it impacts good weather days too because I feel guilty if I don’t make best use of each and every one of them, given there are so bloody few of them.

I hate, despise, loathe, despair of British weather the the ferocity of a million burning suns.

I *splashed out on outdoor furniture. But, tbf, no one would notice if I slashed on it in this rain 🤷🏻‍♀️

@MangosteenSoda

I *splashed out on outdoor furniture. But, tbf, no one would notice if I slashed on it in this rain 🤷🏻‍♀️

@OverTheRubicon

I agree, and think that people saying they're fine, appreciate the greenness etc aren't also appreciating the impact that the past year of lockdowns and covid has also had on some of us.

In the past I quite liked a reason to spend a week indoors catching up on books and snuggles with DCs. After the last year, I feel we've spent so much time cooped in, I work all day in the house, spend the weekends in the house, try to keep 3 young DCs entertained with the same toys and books they've been playing with endlessly, and with friends not allowed for playdates or anyone going out... It's pretty grim.

Bring on the dry weather and the reopening.

I've wondered if spending so much time indoors is unhealthy. Think about our history as a species - we spent almost all of the time outside. Now, it can be 23.5 hours out of 24 inside per day. The light (that is going into our eyes) is completely different. When light goes through glass it is effectively filtered with parts of it let through and parts not. I do wonder if it can contribute to certain problems.

If posters aren't bothered by it I don't know why they come on here because it's obviously a thread for people who are struggling with it. And like I said, people find different things difficult. I've not batted an eye at relationship break-ups or things other people might find distressing situations. But being stuck inside all day every day gets to me.

I would love to spend a weekend outside in the sun, in a hot park. Sit eating outside. sit on the grass. Be in the blazing heat. I think it would do me the world of good. My circulation is bad and right now my hands are purple.

Getting webbed feet now. I was worried last month about the lack of rain for my garden, but this is ridiculous