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

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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!

Not so easy when damp/ wet weather causing stiffness in hips/ knees ) ankles.

Feel like walking around like a 109 year old is not good. Fortunately I spent the winter in Asia so didn't hurt so much and mobility much better. But not fun to return to UK to find the weather STILL shit

Go to the gym! Had a lovely swim yesterday followed by a very warm sauna

Not everyone can afford the gym. It's £50 a month minimum for one near me and a lot more for one with a sauna.

@Plumeface I don't pay that much and I live in the south east.
Have a hot bath, cup of tea and a book with a blanket, do yoga at home. Ultimately a lot of it is mindset, I go out in all weathers that's not good everyone, so do something else, or you can sit around and complain but don't expect to be happy

But the " gap" in the weather is most likely when you are at work.

You have obviously never been in a caravan in the rain in Wales. Fun active things' whatever the weather? What on earth are they, without paying squillions for indoor play or dragging cold, fed up kids (yes I know about appropriate clothes, thanks) around in the rain and the mud?

I totally hear you OP. Its utterly vile where I am today and has rained everyday of the school holidays, thank god my kids are older and don't need entertainment.
I've made it very clear to DH that I will not spend my last years staring out a nursing home window as the rain smashes it. I'm off somewhere sunny. The difference in how I feel when I wake up to that warm smell will add at least 10 years on me I think.

I agree, can't fly fish as we never get enough settled weather for the river levels to fall and the wind to drop and temp to rise for a decent fly hatch.
Our rivers seem to be in a perpetual state of flood or else are brimming with sewage

I don't want to do yoga, it bores me to tears.

I'm quite happy to complain, we all need a rant now and then without having our feelings invalidated.

I like to do 10k steps a day and I'm not going to go down the 'wrong clothes not wrong weather route', but life has been transformed by my new Mountain Warehouse coat (I'm not a rep honestly). Two layers, one is a down puffer coat and the outer layer is a long 10000mm rated waterproof raincoat. A complete game changer compared to my previous coats that always sprung a leak. Even after the heavy rain I get home cosy and dry.

It hasn't stopped raining where I am since June last year, and we're on our 13th storm of the season (45-60mph winds).

On a happier note, at least I won't feel obliged to attack the foot-high grass, as it's now swamp land underneath.

@Plumeface miserable people bore me the most

That's fine, I like grumpy people. Relentlessly positive people do my nut in.

Changeable, yes. The problem this year is that it’s not been changeable, it’s just stuck on a wet and windy loop. My DH is a gardener and where we are, the weather has been appalling. We’ve not had more than three or four days without rain since October - and I’m not talking about a shower here or there. DH is running about two months behind with jobs, and now every time the sun comes out for two minutes he gets forty phone calls asking if he’s going to “cut my grass tomorrow” even though everywhere is waterlogged. He’s still got fences to put up, and patios to lay that should have been done months ago. I’m not even sure if he’s finished the hedge cutting yet and the birds are starting to nest.

Everywhere is so muddy, the pot holes are atrocious, lots of the lanes have been flooded repeatedly.

Oh, and I’ve got the right clothes for the weather, but the dog hates the rain and just refuses to go out in it. Thank God, tbh!

Finally, my 88 year old mother, who loves to sit in her garden in the spring, has been stuck indoors.

Omg, a hot bath and reading a book under a blanket is lovely in October when it's a novelty. It's fecking April! Six + months of 'cosy' activities gets boring.

@innerdesign I just go out but that's been robustly shot down on here!

Well I can’t get home because the road is flooded and impassable so I can’t do any of that and I think I have the right to complain!

@Idratherbepaddleboarding haven't got the paddle board with you? 😁

Because people just want to moan, no one is asking for advice. Let people whinge!

I hope it's just the street and your house isn't flooded.

My street was badly flooded back in October and unfortunately lots of families woke up to water in their houses. Everytime we have heavy rain I spend the night worrying the same thing will happen, which has meant a lot of sleepless nights in the last few months.

Sorry really made me laugh 😂😂😂

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/09/storm-kathleen-rescue-operations-river-arun-overflows-west-sussex

I think it's gone well beyond putting on a jolly raincoat and a Pollyanna attitude, even in the SE

Was only thinking back to 2020 - April May June - all blooming marvellous - at least we didn't have this amount of rain in lockdown

@fightingthedogforadonut what nonsense. It has been the wettest 18 months since 1836. Nobody has forgotten what is normal weather this time of year, we know it is not normally this wet.

I'm imagining you standing outside on top of a peat bog, railing at the skies .

Or maybe you are sinking, it's very easy to sink in a peat bog!