Sick of wasting my life because of the rain

[GoodnightAdeline]

I don’t care how many people say ‘it was always like this..’ yes it rained a lot when I was a kid but now it does nothing BUT rain.

I swear to God out of the last 30 days we have had 1 or maybe 2 where it wasn’t fucking raining. And they’re always midweek.

I feel like all we do is sit inside going stir crazy waiting for the rain to stop. I have 2 small children and while they’re desperate to go to the park/beach, even they’re not keen in a torrential downpour with everything covered in mud.

I’m sick of all my plans being cancelled, staring out of the window at depressing grey skies and trying to figure out how to pass the weekend without spending a ton of cash on expensive (and brief) indoor activities.

It’s driving me fucking crazy and not an exaggeration to say it’s sending me into some kind of low level depression. 🍷

I think your attitude is making things seem worse. Its winter in England. If you want a picnic in March youre going to have to move far away.

Make winter in England plans. They might have to be inside somewhere but dont have to be in your house.

You’d have a bit more of a point if you posted this in July. But it’s March, and spring has only just begun. Who expects to have picnics and soak up the sun in winter, in England?

It's March!

Yes climate change has brought increased volatility and warmer/wetter winters, but we were never regularly out on picnics in Jan/Feb/Mar as children. Next we have April showers.

In colder months we went/go to big museums, cathedrals, galleries, city centres which were all free.

Also buy good wet weather clothes, makes such a difference.

No, the east midlands 😂

The man does strange things to me 😁

Where do you live? I grew up in Wales where it always rains and now live in north west where it also always rains, but I used to live in South of England and I noticed a huge difference, felt like it hardly ever rained there. So maybe move further south if you can’t stand the rain - according to google East Anglia is the driest part of the UK.

I guess it depends where you are but the weather here today was glorious - blue skies, sunshine, I dried two loads of washing on the line, the kids played on the trampoline (and begged me to get the paddling pool out) we walked to the park and the kids had ice cream.

yesterday it rained all day so we put on rain suits and wellies went for a 'puddle stomp', (as I had to convince youngest to collect the eldest and we didn't have a car).

We do campfire cooking

In this rain? How?????? :)

I feel this OP
A backroad I use has been flooded since last October meaning g I can't use as a shortcut. Its flooded in places that I've never seen it flood in my lifetime and a village I travel through frequently hasn't been dry enough not to drive in the centre of the road due to flooding since before Christmas.
I'm in Pembrokeshire

We spend a lot of time outside but no one is keen when it’s pissing it down even with decent waterproof and wellies, and we wear wellies most of the time.
There’s been days I’ve had two coats from each child to wash and reproof and umpteen pairs of wellies that have been overtopped and need drying out. It might be easier if it’s just rain rather than rain and mud.
When it’s raining sometimes have a car picnic, we eat our sandwiches in the car, in a car park overlooking the railway lines and in an hour we hope to see three trains. Go to the supermarket cafe, mid afternoon when it’s quiet. Local museums are good, ours are all pay once and get in for the year. Go to grandmas for the afternoon for a change of scenery. But really we just look forward to it being a bit drier and warmer.

@MyLadyTheKingsMother I live the idea of a blanket filled tent in the rain with a book, might set that up just for me and hide from the kids

Barely any rain where I am in south east, where do you live?! We had about an hour yesterday but nothing big!

I'm Welsh and I love the rain, but even I'm a bit fed up of how wet and muddy and flooded everywhere is at the moment.

It was lovely and sunny today though, there is hope!

So this February at least looks the warmest in record and the wettest since 1836 and also most overcast

www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2024/february-2024-warm-and-wet-for-the-uk

I can't say March is looking any better.

I agree OP sick to death of the cold and rain. I just want to see and feel the warmth of the sun. I want to be out in my garden but it’s cold and wet.
days out cost more because you can’t take picnics and end up having to buy food. we’ve done all the local free museums so many times. And I’m sick of wearing coats. Just want to walk out of the house and not worry about being cold and wet. It’s miserable

But it's only just become Spring?! Of course the winter is cold and grey and wet.

It really is always like this, OP. If we didn't have as much rain it wouldn't be "England's Green & Pleasant Land"

I’m not imagining things then…

Same here, I swear it's rained nearly every day so far this year where I live. I'm utterly fed up with it.
I know it's winter but looking at Facebook memories we definitely had better weather in previous years

It has been I believe, the wettest winter on record, the wettest March on record. So yes it’s shit right now, but this isn’t the norm. It won’t be like this forever, we’re just having a abnormally wet year. It will stop soon and we’ll have a hosepipe ban I’m sure

It's the mud that gets me. The grassy parts of one of our parks has turned into an ugly mud pit. There's a lovely walk we are dying to do but the kids would be knee deep in mud after all the rain. I don't expect picnics at this time of the year but I'd like to sit with a sandwich on a bench and let the kids run around at least.

so go live somewhere where it's blazing hot, there are water shortages and forest fires
problem solved

When our children were little, we lived in a very hot and humid climate for several years. We learnt to have fun in the AC indoors.

Doing arty stuff, playing board games, puzzles, reading, various construction projects, indoor picnics, cooking/baking, movie afternoon with popcorn, learning about outer space/the weather/maths/skeletons.........

You might as well complain that the sky is blue and grass is green. It is out of our control, just like the weather.

I think you’re being a tiny bit unreasonable as in there is life after rain. But you are also completely right in that this may be one of the wettest years I can remember so far. There is a light scum on everything in our local park and my clay soil garden is a permanent quagmire. I totally get wanting to go out not in mud for once!

Haha I knew it would be full of ‘just put on a puddle suit.’

YANBU. It isn’t enjoyable in the slightest squelching through mud, trying to jolly children into wellies and convince them the park is safe when it’s drenched (it isn’t.)

i walked so much with baby no1. Now on mat leave with no2 and I want to walk in the sunshine and enjoy the beautiful spring flowers again.