Sick of this fucking weather. No wonder we are all ill and fat.

[Wayofliving]

The heating has been on at home at some point every day for the past 7 months. I’ve no inclination to get out and walk or do anything at all after work. I come home and cook comfort food as there’s sod all else to do. Drying washing everywhere, house always looks untidy.

It’s always cold, dark, rainy, depressing. If we’re lucky we’ll get 2-3 months of a bit of warmth and sunshine before it all starts waning towards winter again.

No wonder there’s lots of bugs and colds around, we’re all indoors all the time! Couple the shitty weather with high costs of living, crap public services and it makes me wonder why I didn't feck off to Australia when I was younger.

No point to this post, just a moan!

There’s a saying if your cold indoors do something warm outdoors.

The weather shouldn’t put you of walking.

Washing is a pain, but you can reward things and won’t come to any harm!

I just go out anyway, but I don't really care about getting wet. It's not particularly cold where I am (Cotswolds). Just got back in from a 7 mile walk and it rained a tiny bit but was fine really. Heating is off in the house.
I'd say just shove on a coat and go out. The flowers and blossom are out, the spring lambs are in the fields. I can't wait for summer so I do get you there though!

Totally agree op. Just walked through city centre in the rain. Its cold and damp.

Yuck!!!

Try having a horse. It’s torture and most horsey people I know are really depressed and exhausted.
My friend has a family of ducks who have moved into her fields and it is suiting them far better than the poor horses.

I like a good walk in all weathers but even I’m sick of the endless mud and rain and wind.

I'm so fed up of it 😔 I haven't been out of the house since February. The only (very rare) dry days we've had, I've been working.

I agree with you OP.

You are going to get loads of people come on here now say "there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing". But we all know we can wear a mac for walking from the car to the door in the rain. It's all the other stuff we can't do that makes it depressing.

Global warming I think is to blame. We are having more "monsoon" like seasons, where we have a hot summer and a rainy rest of the year.

Yes, I hate it. Hoping we might have had our years quota of rain though.

I've got dogs. There is a saying "no such thing as bad weather just inappropriate clothing". No idea where you live, but here in the SE UK,it was 18c today, shorts and t shirt. Yesterday cloudless sky,warm out of the wind. Took dogs and DGS to Forest about 8 miles away,he was climbing trees, playing with the dogs. Easter weather was nice, just a few showers one afternoon. When my DKS were small, I couldn't afford the electric fire, I bunged them in a pram, pushchair, because it always felt warmer when I went back indoors.

I don’t love the rain but I’m not ill or fat. If I was ill (and maybe if I was fat?) I’d probably dislike the rain more but I have to walk to work and walk the dogs every day so I have no choice but to go out in it.

I am feeling rather pasty looking though.

i don’t agree with you @Wayofliving

OP you will get lots of lectures here about the ‘right’ clothing, the joy of muddy puddles, how you clearly have nothing else going wrong in your life right now and best of all, ‘what rain? I didn’t notice’.

But yes I agree that it’s been shit and rainy and affects the national mood.

Lol speak for yourself, I’m not ill or fat thanks.

Anyway we’ve had some lovely sunshine recently where I am, where are you based?

Oh and Australia has a higher obesity rate than the uk.

It's a wonder everyone in Iceland isn't obese.

MN be like:

Just wait for the hot weather, the moaners will be out saying can't wait until Autumn.

Where I live in the south west it's windy (WINDY!!!!) more than anything, rain never sticks for long, we always get bits of blue sky and sunshine throughout the day. But this year so far never long enough to get the washing out, that's true. Maybe it has to do with El Niño/La Niña cycles.

I’m totally sick of this rain!! No free park or nice walks so having to pay loads for indoor activities.

Yes I could walk in the pouring rain however then I have to dry all my clothes, all my DD’s, wash the dog & the clean up takes longer than the miserable walk🤣

Cat cant/won’t go out so she’s scratching the carpet.

Mostly though, my hair only has to smell moisture & I can scare kids from 30m. Looks like 20 backcombed brillo pads😩

God yeah this has been the wettest longest winter since forever, it feels like.

If you'd have gone to Australia you'd have been kicked to death by a kangaroo or eaten by a spider so that's no solution. I suppose at least it would have been quicker than soggy disintegration.

Oh god, I agree OP but we're going to get loads of people who live on the south coast going 'well it's not like that here!!!'. I have waterproofs, I also have a spaniel, so I'm out long walks in all weathers. In the past two months I think we've had three walks where I've taken my winter jacket off. The rest it's been raining or cold and windy. Last summer we had three weeks of nice weather in May/June, two days of sun in September, and I'm not exaggerating when I say the whole rest of the year was cold and wet. It gets you down.

Have you seen the price of food there? Those fuckers can't afford to eat. It's nothing like the fucking shop!

Life is what you make of it and you make your own choices.

The weather may have been shite but we have still had loads of fun!

You only get one shot at life... it's short and precious.

Couldn't agree more OP

@Blackcats7 I got chickens last summer and we have a running “joke” that ducks would be a better choice with the weather we have had.

My joy was complete this morning when my Pomeranian decided to roll in the mud round the chicken run and so I had to bath him as well as wading in the quagmire to see to the chickens. I can’t imagine how people with horses haven’t given up keeping them en masse.

My allotment has been underwater for large stretches of the past seven months.

Should have planted rice.