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. 🍷

Obviously I know plants need rain but this excessive rain is clearly doing more harm than good in some cases. All that churned up mud on what was once a grassy area looks awful and will have to be re turfed or something for summer.

You can walk in the rain….you can go to the park in the rain….just dress appropriately for rain? You can get some pretty good kids waterproofs and wellies?

Yes it’s annoying, the amount of rain we have had is slightly depressing but we need to adapt and wearing the correct clothing and getting out there is how we do it.

Wowzers I had no idea this thread would invoke such passion from my fellow rain haters and those who seem incredibly triggered by my not liking waterproof trousers!

Anyway - rain again today. On goes the plastic poncho and a manic smile for the school run.

I'm in East Anglia - it has rained a lot even here! We have some roads which have been flooded for weeks and now are undrivable on as the road surface has washed away.

I am out every day walking the dogs, but I also wish it would stop raining for a bit as all the footpaths are very muddy and slippery.

(It's been quite nice this weekend though apart from the hail!)

This thread split between those who grit their teeth soldiering on even tho it's cold and windy and pissing down because refusing to accept that it's a significantly less enjoyable experience is defeatist and the rest of us who just tell the honest truth that it's shit and stay home looking miserably out through wind battered windows.

I don't know which is worse tbh.

I do know I'm not paying £100 to go to the zoo in the rain to spend the day in the indoor sections. You know who you won't see standing about in the rain? Animals.

Completely agree. It’s been non-stop. Definitely not been anywhere near as cold as it used to be over winter, barely needed to de-ice the car this winter, but the rain just hasn’t stopped.
I was so hoping for a lovely spring like last year following all the rain, but the beginning of April certainly isn’t looking promising.
we do try to make the most of it and put wellies and Puddlesuits on the kid, but it is miserable when it’s all the time.

Song of the seasons -Flanders and Swann 1950s.
January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow
February's ice and sleet
Freeze the toes right off your feet
Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wert not so unkind
April brings the sweet Spring showers
On and on for hours and hours
Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day
June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops
In July the sun is hot
Is it shining? No, it's not
August cold and dank and wet
Brings more rain than any yet
Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood
Then October adds a gale
Wind and slush and rain and hail
Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog
Freezing wet December then
Bloody January again
January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow

It has been a very wet winter, but it was winter. You can’t expect picnic weather! Spring only started 4 days ago.

Well, you can’t change the weather but you can change how you think about it…

Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.

(With thanks to Langston Hughes - love this poem).

This time last year the horses were living out! The ground is nowhere near dry enough yet.

And we have more ..rain! Another wet dog walk sigh…..

Couldn’t agree more OP, and the older the kids get the worse it gets - try telling a teenager to get off their phone to…. Go for a walk in the rain? Oddly doesn’t seem to work well.

And for this reason… we are moving to the med in September - am SO excited this won’t be our lives next winter!!! It’s been a bit of an epic undertaking but we’re all really excited to be able to be outside the vast majority of the year (not in anoraks, doing woodwork?!)

I do get fed up of the rain, but it doesn't stop us doing a lot of things. It's raining here today, we're going for an hour's walk with a friend in an hour of so, then breakfast. Just so happens we're travelling to meet family near a canal for a late lunch as well - unless it's pelting down, there's no way I'm not going for a potter along the canal to see the canal boats, ducks and swans.

I still go out in the rain. Its always rained
for most of Feb/March. Do things that aren't affected by the rain e.g. going swimming, shopping, ice skating etc. I still walk the dogging the rain, wearing wellies and waterproof coat, love it.

I've just looked at those maps and felt every single one of them...especially the cloud cover one.

OP, I'm with you - I don't mind wet, cold or windy, but I'm done 😆 the lack of sun/clear skies (I remember bitter winter temperatures with the reassurance that the sun is still there 😉) is starting to get to me. About a week ago, the temperature got to 17 and I never expected to be so happy (I also dislike when too hot haha no, I'm rarely happy but hold in my grumbles usually) and genuinely really lifted my mood. The next day it rained so hard and was whump miserable. I just try to gold on to the fact that xome summer, we'll be crying for rain as temperatures seem to be more and more intense. Global warming is real 😕 hang in there OP, have a rant with fellow wet-weather-witherers 😉

You wouldn't be able to soak up vitamin D even on sunny days in winter as the sun isn't strong enough.

This is one of the most insufferable things I have ever read on mumsnet.

Let the rain kiss you 🙄

Try having your livelihood rely on the weather…it’s been grim since spring 2023 really. Crap summer last year, and then rain, rain, rain…minute we retire i’m off to Spain!
February had the highest rainfall ever recorded.

It sucks and it especially sucks with small children. I’m in the same boat. This country sucks the weather sucks it all sucks. I can’t even go out and garden because the ground is sodden. The parks are soaking. I don’t have enough waterproof dungaree sets for my toddler to be outside all day. I hear you and you’re not alone. And when the sun does come out it’s so fecking windy. I’ve got a three year old who’s up at 5.30am and by 8.30am he’s climbing the walls desperate to go outside but we can’t because it’s raining again. It doesn’t stop

Totally agree. Thats why I’ve moved to Australia.

Move abroad then.

I know what you mean, I’ve owned and walked dogs for 25 years and have never known such wet weather and it’s not just winter the last few years. Many of my usual dog walks have become horrendous with the wet weather and I try and avoid now till spring/summer, sick of washing and wiping mud off my dog every single walk now …

February was one of the wettest on record I do believe, and wasn't January (or was it February) one of the least sunniest too.

I get it, my trainers are caked in mud, the cats are getting cabin fever and my bike needs a good clean.

I'm of the "never bad weather, just bad clothes" brigade and even I'm fed up now. I want to hang my washing outside, I want to go for a walk and not have to walk through puddles, I want more than a couple of days of sun.

It must have rained every Saturday for about 9 months.

I know i'm probably being daft, but today's rain feels worse than ever, simply because we had a small taste of lovely weather yesterday.

Yesterday was amazing, so many families out and about enjoying the sunshine, and not a coat or umbrella in sight.

Have to agree. In Suffolk it has pretty much rained constantly since November. We have had so much flooding in a way I've never seen before for my area. It has started to improve finally so hopefully spring has arrived now.