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. 🍷

Yanbu. I have a 13 year old and a 10 year old and there is literally nowhere here (in a small town, sadly not near a beach or anything) that they want to go in the rain, that’s free anyway. Our holidays are camping for cost reasons which normally we love but last year’s were grim (sitting in a boggy field in August wearing jumpers and waterproofs, cooking in the rain… I love a bit of adventure/being out in all weathers but every single one of our holidays/breaks last year was cold, wet and hard work, we’ve all had a hard year and a week of sunshine would have done us all so much good). I’m finding myself checking the weather forecast all the time at the moment, in eternal hope… not looking great for the Easter holidays really.

@MajorConsequences

The idea that you could push a pram and hold an umbrella in coastal Scotland is hilarious. No one owns umbrellas in my town. Most days you're lucky your car door doesn't get ripped off the hinges when you're getting in it.

We're a hardy bunch but we're still fed up with the rain.

I'm looking forward to reading all the posts about the "unbearable" heat in summer and how so many of you just can't cope - and I bet a lot will be the same posters berating OP on this thread.

I get irrationally pissed off at the weather too tbf. I remember the summer my DD was born it largely pissed down in my final weeks/months of my child-free life when I had imagined waddling about in floral maxi dresses 😂. naturally I was holed up in labour then on a sweltering ward the few days we had the solitary heat wave. Oh the irony.

As someone who now lives somewhere with decent weather, I understand completely. Now I have crisp winters with real snow, springs with occasional rain but also lots of sunny days, and hot summers where we swim in the pool and play tennis each afternoon. Add in beautiful autumn leaf colors and I don't miss the constant rain and gloom of Manchester one little bit.

I agree. There’s rain and warmth then rain with a cold, biting wind. There’s being able to afford drying clothes and struggling to. There’s houses with a porch and utility room and houses with doors that open directly onto the street, many of them from living rooms. All of which needs to be considered. And of course, there’s being able to afford to emigrate and not being able to.

BlueBadgeHolder

@notacooldad who is hiding inside?
I didn't say anyone was.
The op is getting fed up of being indoor though.

Oh I do hope you keep a spreadsheet or notes to come back and check who said what. Don’t let them away with it. All that berating

The weather has been vile for the last nine months. North West here. People in the South East don't have a clue how relentless the rain can be in other parts of the country.

@IloveAslan people who moan about warm weather just need to remember there's no such thing as "bad" weather just unsuitable clothes and a nice drink will cure it all!

I know!
The pre covid heatwave, I was down South and the temp briefly hit 35⁰C, it was glorious. So many threads about how people were melting!
I always have less sympathy for people complaining about the heat, as we have such a short period of it, yet the cold and wet seasons go on for months.

This is so true 😂

Brilliant apart from the hide & seek. 🤦‍♀️

The issue with UK summer (on the rare occasion that it actually manages to get hot) is that houses here are built to keep heat in for our cold winters. It’s glorious to be able to get out into but it’s the miserable, sticky nights where the bedroom temp is reading 30 degrees which are the killer

A big problem here in the UK is that our houses are not built to keep the heat in. That’s why there are so many problems with mould and damp.

I can't say our bedroom has ever reached the giddy heights of 30⁰C. But I love the hot nights where you can be naked with just a thin sheet and have the bedroom windows open.

Unfortunately I have evidence of it or I wouldn’t have believed it either! We have a Dyson fan which continually reads the room temp

Where do you live OP?
I am in the SE and it didn’t rain today- blue sky. Yesterday sun mixed with showers. Wednesday was 17 degrees and tshirt weather- absolutely beautiful with pink blossom on every other tree and daffodils everywhere

@MajorConsequences 31 degrees during the big 2021 heatwave, meanwhile outdoors it was a lovely balmy 20 degrees that night! Just shows how much heat our homes are made to hold in

Where I live people massively exaggerate how much and how often it rains.

We could have dry weather or decent weather or even good weather but then as soon as it starts to rain they go on about how it's "always raining....never stops raining" etc. but I know that that's not true because I live right next to them 😂

In the UK councils are spending a huge amount of money treating single brick housing (which are leaking heat) with another layer to encapsulate the single brick. It’s a good investment to solve the problem of inadequate housing for uk winters.

Rain hasn’t been continuous or constant. The definition of constant, is continuous,uninterrupted.
perhaps some parts have increased rain. Increased,yes. Constant , no

Living in a country where it does get to 35+ degrees on at least a few days each summer so would I.

I would rather it be 35+ for days on end than put up with endless rain.

Our house has solid stone walls with no cavity, it is difficult to heat up and the outside walls are frequently damp. We are south facing with bay windows, so there is a possibility of it getting warm if the sun would actually shine. Not 31⁰C of warm though! But I'd still take that over the damp and cold.

Where do you live Glow22? It’s ok if you’d rather not answer specifically due to ‘outing’, just whether it’s north, east, south or west.