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!

Just got back from Lidl which is full of barbecue stuff… Good luck with that…
I live in the semi -tidal stretch of a mountain triver and it has never been so fast flowing for so long.

Surely your complaining about our complaining is wasting your energy and headspace?

@peakygold

why? You must have quite a limited life if that has made your day

i want a heat wave

manifesting this for happy horses and horse owners

@DivergentTris · Today 11:16

The only thing I hate about this weather is the whining about it. I mean it's not ideal weather, but for Pete's sake get over it and get on with it.
My husband constantly whines about the poxy weather and I ignore him until he changes the subject.

There's enough stuff that bothers me in life that I can work towards changing for the better without whining about something like the weather that I can't do anything about. Its such a waste of energy and headspace..

Why even click on the thread then, if people WHINING so much about the shitty weather grinds your gears so much? I bet you think you're so quirky and yoooneek coming onto a thread like this and telling us how ridiculous we all are for moaning about the weather. The weather has been shit for a large portion of the last 6 months, we are entitled to complain, and you have no obligation to click on the thread.

Clicking on it just to post what you have posted is pretty farcical. Do you think people are going to stop complaining about the shitty weather because of YOUR post? What on earth did you think you were going to achieve by coming on here, talking down to people, and acting like you are somehow superior because you just 'get on with it?' I have to say also, I feel sorry for your poor husband. I bet he feels like he is constantly walking on eggshells around you.

Can I be the first to whine about the people whining about the people whining about the weather?

Wow, what a nasty comment. Did it make you feel all warm and toasty inside? Did it give you a little dopamine hit? Wow. I think you need to find some new hobbies and some friends, see if you can make yourself - and your life - a bit happier yeah? (And a bit less bitter and jealous of people who have things you don't have.)

😂

Tedious aren't they?!

Northern Scotland here - if rain stopped us living our lives we’d never go outside. We put the kids in puddle suits and the dog in a coat and go! The worst bit is getting out the door. And once you’ve been outside you feel better!

The toxic positivity types are worse than the weather. As are the "be grateful you don't have more to worry about, X person is DYING".

Without wanting to be callous, someone's always dying. Someone ALWAYS has it worse than you do. It doesn't mean you can't ever complain or you're not aware of that.

@UnderappreciatedTeacher have you considered taking a sabbatical - from this thread?

Read the room poster....

I don't disagree with better out than in....I live in the North West, it rains a lot.

But it is so much nicer when it hasn't been raining since what seems like last July and that there are not huge puddles to navigate when I am walking to work, and all the dog towels aren't wet or in the washing machine, and the garden isn't sodden.

You know it's OK to have a moan about the fact these past few months have been some of the wettest on record and it's been remorseless.

This! ^

We’re in the Midlands and had our garden landscaped in early March and I don’t think there has been more than one dry day at a time to dig the beds over.

i know it’s the UK and we have rainy weather but March/April usually have a few nice days. I think we probably only had one crisp, bright winter day.

Exactly. It's daft! Just because people are pissed off with the weather (and I genuinely believe everyone is, and don't believe anyone who says they're not,) that doesn't mean they don't care about sick, or dying people, and the wars going on around the world.

People spouting this kind of shit is so pathetic and tedious. I have never known it actually come out of anyone's mouth in real life. If someone said something like this to me (in person,) they would get a bloody short shrift from me, and a few not-so-nice 4 letter words. I have got ZERO tolerance for nonsense like this.

These are the same people who say stuff like 'at least you have GOT a mother' when a poster says they are having big problems with a toxic mother.

@peakygold can I ask why you posted such a nasty comment? You can't 'abide horsey types' you say, you do actually realise people who have horses or work with horses all have very differing personality types don't you? I just can't fathom why you'd post such a sweeping statement about them tbh.

I think part of the rain/mud/misery mood is also to do with the housing you are in - sizes, facilities, heating, insulation and how easy it is to deal with
I'm in a scandi country and its been crappy weather, walking is a mud fest and you come in splattered and wet, even with the right clothes (and here its entirely socially acceptable for adults to wear a toddler style waterproof or padded onesie for rain or snow 🙂) The difference is that my fairly average house here is warm, spacious and well insulated, and after being properly out in the rain can walk DCs into a suitably large room where we can get rid of the wet clothes/muddy boots and hang them to air and dry. I dont usually need to turn the heating up because the house is generally warm and better insulated than any UK place I have lived in - but if I did I also know I could afford it

My experience in UK housing, especially new build has not been great- lots of shitty afternoons trying to get into the poky hall with pram and toddler, wrangle everyone out of wet gear, try and stop mud being tracked around out of the entrance hall, find a place to hang wet jackets, turn up the heating to dry stuff, sharply worrying how many hours of that are reasonable with the price so high, be aware of the damp smell in the hall, wait an hour until DP comes back from work also soaked, and trips over the boots and maiden and adds to the wet jacket structure that you spend the rest of the evening sidling round when you want to use the stairs - then horrible feeling of slightly damp boots and sleeves the next day, and always fighting to air the house because of the condensation and mould on the window frames. The only 2 UK rentals I haven't had this problem in were a cottage which had a utility/boot room entrance and a Victorian tenement flat which had a huge generous hall, high ceilings, a pulley above the bath where you could hang damp stuff and an airing cupboard - both traditionally designed practically with more generous cupboard and living space
Better houses, space and heating make bad weather much easier to live with.

You are so right.

The people who haven’t seemed to notice this prolonged period of wetness obviously don’t have any animals - I’ve got sheep and horses - the fields are a mess, I’ve had to bring all my sheep and lambs back in again as the fields are flooding and the lambs are cold, I’m dunno my out of hay and straw too! Most outdoor events that should have been on in March and April have been cancelled due to the ground conditions.
My husband hasn’t drilled 1/3 of our farm and this is the same for most farmers so food will be in short supply next year - livestock farmers are going to struggle as they’ll be no straw for winter housing at this rate.

Although I wouldnt move to Australia
No wonder they have high obesity levels when pretty much every native species can kill you! I would only be leaving the house in some sort of spider repellant hamster ball....

I just don’t know who moaning about it helps? If it genuinely makes you feel better then that’s fine. But personally I always feel more negative and worse if I’m complaining.

@adviceneeded1990 So you are just walking along pavements and paths? If not how do you cope with the mud? Do you not get fed up of constantly washing the dog before it comes inside again?
Everything is water logged here. Today is typical. Grey skies, wind, and intermittent rain.

Not to mention the actual sky is raining death rays on you all day long. Not many people getting skin cancer in the UK this winter.

Yep, this! ^