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!

Total sympathy from me OP. It's been constantly raining, gloomy and cold here since the autumn. If we ever see the sun it's just an hour and then the cloud is back. And now we're well into April with no sign of relief. Everyone I know where we are (west country) is fed up and the farmers are in real trouble with all the fields sodden.

I am over this weather and what has felt like a never ending winter. Back garden been bogged since Jan no signs of drying out yet.

We had one day (Easter Saturday) where it felt appropriate to sit outside and have some food and drink in a bar on the beach (was lovely). Since then I think we’re now on storm number 3?? So it’s actually not safe to go for a walk a lot of days recently! Depressingly we have a treadmill in our cold dark garage that I make myself go on for an hour a day if can’t get outside. Dream is to have a nice garden gym one day!

Won’t be going abroad this year and not really sure how I’m going to cope mentally. I need my regular fix of sun!!!

It’s not great but I’m still outside walking every day and cooking home cooked meals. Also heating not been on for a month or two now, base temperature is still quite humid. I don’t really agree with your post.

If you don’t want to walk after work why not inside exercise like the gym?

I agree op. The weather has been foul and it’s no fun going out in it! When it’s extremely bad, I get my steps
in on a treadmill. Not the most exciting, but I usually watch something whilst I walk and it gets the job done. Would much rather be out in the sunshine though!

I would be thoroughly fed up by now if I had time to notice the weather. But I am flat out working, studying and looking after dc and a sick dog. I am exhausted.

It’s warmed up a lot and I have washed and put away my winter coats. Preparing the house and garden for summer and feeling optimistic. I do wish it would hurry up!

My Australian friend loves it here, she said it’s too hot to even go out for most of the daylight hours, and can’t even swim outside. Everywhere has searing heat and she sits inside constantly working in the air conditioning and blinds down to keep the sunlight out.

According to the forecast tomorrow will be the last day of rain for 10 days! If that offers hope?!

I'm pretty much solar powered, so really struggling now. I'm out every day with my dog, happy to walk rain or shine but goodness, the grey skies are a killer and the MUD. Half of our walks are verging on impassable and I'm so fed up of having to wash the dog, my boots, the long line etc down every time we come home, especially as it means decanting (and waking) my baby who has kindly dropped off in the sling whilst walking.
We're in Northern France ATM, and whilst we knew it wasn't going to be tropical and was always a bit of a risk at this time of year, it's been wetter and gustier than even we'd expected. The crossing over was unpleasant...
But it's not just the UK afflicted if that helps in any way....

Which weather app is this? I like it!

Lucky you.

We still have 7 out of the next 14 days forecast as rainy. One day as mostly sunny, the rest still cloudy. But at the moment the pattern appears to be that most days forecast as dry turn out to be wet anyway. The slugs in my garden are having a great time, though.

That's not remotely true where I am in Australia.

Just the one bundled with Windows 🙂 It's better than the weather!

I'm keeping positive by building an Ark

It’s grey around 7 degrees and windy here, and guess what it rained over night again…which has made it feel damp again.

I am frozen this morning 🥶

I can count the number of dog walks I’ve done in the dry since last year on one hand.

Every day the my view from my home office is the same, grey and miserable, even Sunday when it was warmer it was still grey and cloudy.

I actually found it way easier to walk in London. Loads of tarmac paths and pavements. In my rural area there’s no pavements, a sudden increase in traffic and within 5 minutes you hit knee deep mud. To walk the kids to school is a nightmare as you have to either use a road where cars tend to speed (nearly got hit pushing a buggy) or through a farmers field where they’re supposed to maintain the public footpath but have recently churned it up.

It's blowing a gale here this morning. Rain is hurling itself at the window. All I can see on bbc weather for the next 2 weeks is a mixture of 1 and 2 rain drop clouds. Think there are 2 days with sunny showers.

Couple of things

1. It's rained all night here, it's still raining and is not due to stop raining until 11am ish
2. it has rained so much, and so frequently for so long now that the grass verges I could use to walk outside of my village are impassible.

Spring has most definitely not sprung in thE North East!

Gale force winds today and I'm back in my thick woolen dress and boots. 😒

Go out for a run! We have a saying in this house, ‘if you don’t do something because of the weather, you’ll never do it!’
We run, cycle, walk, hike in the rain. We visit national trust properties, take packed lunches or go to cafes, go swimming. The list is endless!
the longer days make me so happy, the washing indoors is a pain but a dehumidifier works wonders and keeps the house a bit warmer.
cone on, OP, you can do this 😄

I don’t think it’s actually been that bad. Yeh it’s wet some days but today was fine, it rained for a short amount of time and then it brightened up.

It has been that bad where I live in South Yorkshire, and for most of the posters on this thread.

I live in reservoir country, and they are all brimming over. It would take freakishly hot weather over a very long spell before we got a hosepipe ban.

Could cheerfully strangle people who go on about no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes. Because top of everyone's idea of a fun summer holiday is a fortnight in the rain.

I agree. The places where we can walk are much busier because all the off road footpaths are just too muddy.

It's hilly where I live and the bottom end of all the fields are just small lakes. I really feel for the farmers because they can't do any planting.

Woke up to pouring rain in Glasgow again. Sheesh.

The rain is annoying, but the wind is driving me insane! Keeps me awake at night....

Definitely Ark-building weather here in Devon. The Easter B&B crop went home early- crops in the fields not so lucky though. I'm keeping positive setting up extra water-butts in the orchard, ready for the inevitable hose pipe ban that will follow our first dry day.

I'm in Devon too. The roads are so pot-holed from all the surface water every trip risks blowing out the tyres. A boat could be the solution!

The people who say it hasn’t been that bad - why can’t they accept that the UK has very different weather in different parts!
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We had a really cold and very wet summer last year, and apart from a couple of nice (not wonderful, just nice) days in September it has been cold, biting winds and rain ever since. 2022 was also mostly grim. This is not an exaggeration!

I have a DD with mobility & joint issues who finds it very hard, very painful, to be outside in it. Yes, I have to take dog out but it’s in my good quality winter coat and many layers, and I still spend the rest of the day huddled by the fire.

The cost of heating has been miserable, and not once in a year has all the house been warm.

I’m glad some people aren’t experiencing all this - but please don’t insinuate we are being dramatic and lazy.

@Wayofliving I hear you.

Gosh your comments are irritating. What can’t you understand? Many people in the UK have had unrelentingly rubbish weather for nigh on 18 months. Most of us have had our fill of bleak, grey skies and mud. We need to feel some sun on our backs, be able to enjoy our walks and parks and gardens without them being quagmires.