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. 🍷

Urgh. Grimly trudging around the same few cul-de-sacs with bewildered under-stimulated kids is not a glorious parenting memory, for sure.

What a crackers thread. It's like all the Insta Gingerbread Latte crew have risen up and gone rogue. "Snuggle up and curl one out on the sofa with your kids, you twat"; "Splash your pram in that fucking puddle, thicko", for 33 pages.

"Curl one out" means "have a shit" where I'm from.

The problem is a lot of places need a good stretch of sunny days to let the ground dry out. A couple of hours of sun between rainy days doesn't cut it

That's true, but it shouldn't stop people getting out when the rain isn't on. I live in one of the most flooded areas of the country, we are well known for it, and often make the news. Fields and areas of town round here have been flooded for months on end. But that doesn't mean we can't go out at all! We just need to pick a bit more carefully where we walk.

Same.

My elder cat is like this. She'll go up to the door of the conservatory and poke her nose out very delicately. Having ascertained that it is, indeed, raining STILL, she will deal me a look of the utmost reproachfulness (after all, it's all my fault) and sit with her back to me, gazing out of the window.

I know just how she feels.

Hahah same @Littlechefblello

It sounds like you would thrive in a different climate.

Its rained since October. I have bought a treadmill so that I can get enough exercise without getting soaked. I am 70 and have never seen weather as bad - fucking climate change.

Invest in better wet weather gear. Coats with hoods, water proof pants, and gumboots.
Find nice child friendly cafes that have fires, jigsaws and are ahout a half hours walk away. Walk, cup of tea and play then walk again home.

Search for rain tolerant adventures...
Swimming at heated pool
Cinema
Cooking
Knitting
Walks through the forest
Train rides
Indoor playgrounds
Indoor pony riding
Museums and Art Galleries (many have kids activities)
Libraries (many have kids' activities)
Dance
Visiting Granny
Holidays in Greece.

Someone on here the other week, with very small children, posted that she had been told she had less than a year to live. That's what I was thinking of when I posted the above. It certainly put any worries or feelings I had in perspective.

I don't post much, but that really got me thinking, hence my post today.

Well yeah it sucks, but there isn't actually any point dwelling on it. Go out when and if you can and have plenty of things to do inside when you can't. Thinking of it as wasting your life is ridiculous.

I used to refer to going out in the garden as our yard time.

Visiting Granny
Holidays in Greece.

Two "activities" suggested in the same breath 😂

Mumsnet is fucking outrageous

This is rather immature thinking. At this time of year there are fewer sunny, warm days. It’s also obviously limiting you.

No need whatsoever to be sitting inside miserable for weeks. Also, don’t you have any hobbies or other interests not dependent upon the weather. That’s what sounds especially bleak to me.

Also dress appropriately for the weather, as has been said many times, it can make a huge difference. A flask of hot drink rather than a summer picnic.

@MyLadyTheKingsMother can I come and live with you please? 😊

check the weather app. If there is a dry spell for a couple of hours just go for a walk wearing wellies.

Lol yeah. It was all a bit Shawshank.

Same here too. I'm trying to figure out what was actually meant in that post from the context but have no idea. Maybe did mean having a shit!

I agree and I hate people who say "No such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing!" If I'm wearing so many layers I can barely move my arms, and there's water dripping off the hood of my raincoat onto my nose, and you can't eat anything because it will get soaking wet, and I can't take my gloves off to take a photo, then that is bad weather and I don't want to be out in it!

The 1000 days outdoor thing has annoyed me too, especially the graphic showing how to do it in a cold climate. All very well spending 1 day outside in January (which will be in the dark once they get home from school) but then you have to make up for it by spending 5 hours a day outdoors in July- which effectively means you can't do ANYTHING indoors on a school day, including cooking and eating. And it will probably still be raining.

Haha 😆😆 It was a pretty desperate list even before the glitch-point but that really tipped it into Middle Class Viz Top Tips. Parents!! Are you sick of the rain?! Find a cafe with a fire you can burn jigsaws on and then leave your kids there and BUY A FUCKING HOLIDAY TO GREECE.

Do you have SAD? The winter months can take a toll and lots of people experience this. Try and take some vitamin d and find the happy spots in the rainy weather, you’ll be in the sunshine before you know it.

I personally love it wet, windy and a bit wild but I hate the summer!

I was taking the piss. It was a play on words, a joke.

Find nice child friendly cafes that have fires, jigsaws and are ahout a half hours walk away.

Yeah, OP - find these mythical places. Go on!

I'm fed up with the rain here - South East England. March has been shocking! And the weather forecast is saying it's raining for every day for the next two weeks. I'm very over it now. It's absolutely NOT fun to drag small children out in a pissing downpour, whatever expensive Swedish clobber you may be clad in. They hate it and grumble, everyone ends up with cloggy-mud feet and no-where to fucking sit down because............oh yeah, everything's sodden to the core. Everyone gets cold. Within five minutes, no matter WHAT's on their feet they have soaking freezing wet socks. I'm tired from carrying the toddler because I can't push a buggy through the bastard mud. We get home within half an hour and the kids start sneezing that evening. What follows is another 5 days of horrendous cold/flu like symptoms that make us tempted to mark our front door with a massive red X to warn everyone else off.

I've just booked 10 nights in Majorca for the Easter holidays. Fuck this shit

I live in one of the supposedly driest parts of the country, an area which is officially "water stressed".

We've just had the wettest February on record and the rainfall levels over the winter are a lot higher than average. Winter crops have rotted in the fields and the fields which should be getting drilled now for spring planting are still under water. Parts of the long distance trails around us which are normally filled with families at the weekend - even when it's raining - are impassable at the moment because of mud.

The provisional rainfall total for the UK as a whole this winter is 129% of the average measured across the previous 30 years. Not the wettest ever but not that great.

And the worst of this anomaly is not in some of the places we normally associate with more wet weather like SW England, the Lake District, western Scotland. It's mostly further south and east (although parts of eastern Scotland have had it bad too). https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/weather/learn-about/uk-past-events/summaries/uk_climate_summary_winter_2024.pdf

I live rurally and am outdoors every day whatever the weather so am used to spending a lot of time in wellies or outdoor gear. You suck it up and get on with it. But it is quantifiable and verifiable that this has been a crap, wet winter (a record-breaking one in some places) and there's been considerably less sunshine this winter than is normal too.

There's not a lot we can do OP apart from try and make the best of it but I don't blame you at all for being fed up.