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!

Ill and fat? Speak for yourself

I'm out in all weathers every day and I'm fit and healthy and I've never been fat.

Instead of moaning, but wet weather gear and get outside and get moving.

I see some of the summer haters have ventured on this thread. I hope they don't complain when food prices increase due to the farmers not being able to work the fields.

I do live near the south coast and the weather is shite. Sure we have had a couple of pleasant ish days but been working inside, so it sucks.
Today 46mph gusts, rest of the week rain showers!

That poster has blinkers on, I live in Bristol and the weather is relentlessly horrible. Yes you might get the odd patch of dry weather but it rains again half an hour later and it is always windy.

Spend money on ugly waterproof clothes to be active (and therefore sweaty, in that lovely "wearing a plastic bag" waterproofs way) in, amazing. So much better than being comfortable in something beautiful.

Completely agree, have never known persistently windy weather like this (East of England) coupled with endless grey skies. The weather forecast is depressingly repetitive and yet again we are facing windy conditions with gusts up to 47mph. I love being outdoors (have a dog) but am truly fed up with mud, debris, messy (knotty!) hair and crave sun and calmness.

I'm jealous of all those people refusing to go outside in the rain. Your houses must be spotless and so tidy!!

We bought garden furniture in May last year. I think we used it once.

I should imagine all of us go out. We have to. That's not to say we enjoy it.

I'm in NI and it has barely stopped raining for weeks. It's at the stage where nobody bothers to get a bit excited when the clouds part for a few hours because it'll be back to damp drizzle in no time. I live an area that's very high up, so we get the worst of it and sometimes it's just so relentlessly depressing. I'm looking out into the garden right now. It is raining and the trees and bushes are getting an absolute pummelling.

It's ok to have a bit of a moan. We all know where the front door is and how to get out.

I only buy breathable outdoor clothing.

Nobody can chat or interact in this awful weather and our cold homes aren’t inviting or affordable to invite other people over to. It’s very expensive to host or to travel for a lot of us in the UK.
This COL crisis which the government hasn’t solved isn’t going away.. so we need a national programme of building warm free communal local spaces with free activities for the community to meet up in.

It feels like we’re still basically in lockdown social isolation, except this time we’d need to rely on cash-strapped local authorities and architects and builders to rescue us. I know it won’t ever happen because politicians don’t care about mental health or community cohesion but this weather is so isolating I wish the government would do it.

Well I'm in Australia and a couple of days ago we had a month's worth of rain in a single day! Oh and I'm fat too.

Or the opposite! My house gets so messy when I’m in it for too long

Ah but "You have an attitude problem not a weather problem" according to the some of the less imaginative posters on her.

I sympathise. My DH is a wheelchair user and can't just merrily don a few water proofs and go out in the teeming rain.

Agree - I know it’s good for the plants and for topping up the water reservoirs but waking the dogs is a nightmare as they come home muddy and I end up hoovering dirt up all day as they dry off.

My DSis moved back here fro S Africa ten or so years ago and still hasn’t adjusted to it being ‘grey’ from Oct-Mar (she’s an outdoorsy person with a stables/riding business, too). It’s te greyness, rather than the wetness, I think that sucks your soul away…

Gosh. What is it like to be so smug?
My "waterproof" jacket got soaked through in a downpour last July and I ended up nipping into Seasalt to buy a new one.

We have continued our walking group through winter (walk twice a week in winter, 3 times spring onwards) but we are all getting a bit sick of the mud. Last night we got soaked, no rain forecasted but it was so heavy and my coats still wet this morning. I think I’d feel even more depressed if I had stayed in all winter and got fat! I did get fat Nov-Dec and now almost lost it all Jan-March ready for summer

Completely agree!! I am a very outdoorsy person and the rain (but worse the wind) it utterly depressing -can’t remember another winter like this one.
I blame my exbf 😂😂 - we spilt because he selfishly (always all about instant gratification) bought a cute puppy on a whim, imagining himself standing around outside the sunny pub with everyone making a fuss of his cute puppy. He chose a dachshund, despite living three floor up with no lift. Dachshund notoriously hate the cold and wet. So his karma is having to train a reluctant dog through the
most horrible weather, but sadly the rest of us also got stuck with it…

😂And don’t forget the fur babies!

Na it's grim. I live on an arable farm in the North West and the farmers are panicking. We need to try and plant potatoes but it's too wet, and they face rotting in the ground or having such a short growing season that the yield will be awful. Grain crops are awful. The water table is so high that there is v little chance of anything drying up anytime soon.

We have tracks around all our fields for dog walkers and horse riders, the horses haven't been since end of last year and every dog walker looks fed up, the mud is relentless. I run round the fields and am fed up of soaking my muddy run clothes in the bath every day 😂

I am a v outdoorsy person (I hike, camp, wild swim, trail run whatever the weather), but the lack of a break of even a couple of days is really getting me down.

@PollyPeachum frozen pipes were an issue long after the 1940s. It only stopped gradually when people got central heating, so their houses didn't get so cold

I was freezing when I went to bed last night. I thought about getting a hot water bottle but knew it would be even colder downstairs in the kitchen. My heating bills have been hundreds every month and yet I’ve barely had it on so every night I go to bed cold. Next time I go out in the rain, cold and bluster I’m definitely going to be on the look out for all the adults running around, laughing and enjoying the rain! I wonder how many I’ll see 🤔

It’s nearly mid April 😭. I have SAD and I literally have to take medication just to get through 6 months of the year. Half my life of misery! I’m still having to use my SAD lamp every day too.

I do have to get out in it twice a day because I have a Labrador but there’s a huge difference between popping your trainers on, grabbing some poo bags and heading out for a sunny walk through the fields and finding your coat, wellies, hat and gloves, trudging through fields so muddy that you feel like you’re walking up a mountain and then having to wipe the dog, the floor and the walls every time you get home.

DS has also just taken up golf and most days I get an email to say the course is closed, so that’s another day in the Easter holidays that he’s sat at home doing nothing (I’m working).

The wind sounds awful today too 😭😭😭.