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!

@Snowflakeslayer

it has been that bad though hun

You could have paddleboarded down our high street today.

Move abroad.

I did. I now live by the beach in beautiful sunny weather for 80% of the year. We do have winters in that other 20% but it's not a patch of British winter.

I honestly couldn't stick the grey, drizzle every day.

Realising you can actually just pack your bags and move to all year round golden sunshine is quite liberating.

I have never looked back.

I’m far up north too it’s drizzle and foggy and torrential rain and wind so far this year!! It’s miserable and grey
the ground is saturated and muddy
so I totally understand! I’m envious of all the people that are saying it’s better down south! I’m wondering if I can move now! But unfortunately probably not (work/school) so feeling a bit fed up and stuck
also feeling very sorry for the horse people
move noticed a very muddy one today in a very muddy field and thought that it can’t be much fun trying to look after them lately

Not sure where YOU live.

We’ve only been able to out the washing out once this year. It’s too bloody rainy for nice walks. Not much paddle boarding when you live 60 miles from the coast. Or wild swimming unless you swim in a reservoir where it’s banned.

Its crap weather and it makes for crap pastimes when it’s constant. Pub crawls are tedious too.

Our wild swimming is a reservoir on top of a hill
It is so choppy it looks like a stormy sea today not to mention the bog leading up to it which is dangerous on a steep slope and the sideways rain and wind you can't stand up in!
I love swimming but I'm not getting in a swimsuit in this

I live in the Midlands, so at least 60
miles from the coast, and go paddle boarding in local river 2 mins away and wild swimming in a lovely lake that have sessions daily, and a nice cafe to warm up afterwards, it’s fab, in all weathers. I haven’t hung washing outside yet, because it’s just April, and would stay damp, as every year.

It’s really not been that bad, had some fab weather weekends.

Maybe some lifestyle changes are needed to combat this climate change

No it hasn’t. Not where I live. Maybe for you, in which case, poor luck.

I live in NZ, and in this part of the country we never, ever, get the amount of rain you do in the UK, whatever the season. We certainly get more dully cloudy days than we used to in winter, but the amount of rain you get in the UK just doesn't happen. We might have a spell or two of heavy rain and flooding, but it only lasts a short time and then it's back to normal weather again. I dry my washing outside all year round, and while it might need to finish off on a clothes horse overnight I don't need to invest in a tumble dryer as it's not necessary.

I simply couldn't live in the UK because of your shit weather.

"it's not been that bad"

Yes it has been that bad. As in the eighth wettest winter since records began more than 150 years ago. As in England and Wales having more than one and a half times the average March rainfall.

Look at the trouble farmers are in right now and us by extension as we will probably be paying more for food as a result.

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Northamptonshire. Apparently the sunny capital of the UK (That’s a joke btw). Although it does tend to be much drier than other counties we’ve noticed, maybe because we are very central and furthest from a coastline?

I’ve dried loads of washing outside in April and March. And it’s been bone dry. Especially in lockdown. So it isn’t always damp in April.

No lovely weekends here over the last 3 months. Maybe one day, which completely gridlocked the Peak District.

I go wild swimming but it is no fun when the water is very choppy. Trying to get changed and dry in lashing rain is shit. The cold water during the swim or " dook" isnt the problem but you need to be able to get dry and warm quickly. Cant do that in current conditions

no such thing as bad weather. I love nothing more than a walk in the rain, and wind! Better that a sunny day as not many people ate outside and I prefer not to see anyone. I live very rurally and can walk on mountain ms and in quarries and see no one.

bliss!

🤣 classic mumsnet

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this thread and hearing how many people have left for bluer and sunnier skies has really helped me. I’m seriously starting to look into my options for relocating again . I was looking into it before covid but then the pandemic kind of threw me off.

I work for the civil service but also do a freelance creative career. If I can earn more in my freelance /contract work it might be possible to live off that but ideally I’d like to find full time work abroad.

But to be fair, it's been Spring and Summer in Australia! And whilst we are pretty much all sick of the rain over here, it's has been mostly Autumn and Winter that we have had it. Your sunny, dry/hardly any rain past 6 months has been Spring and Summer where you are. The two situations are incomparable

You plainly know little about Australia @SabreIsMyFave . First of all it's a continent as well as a country so think of it as climate zones in which weather is experienced. I'll speak of what I know. The summer in Victoria was very meh this year, cloudy skies until noon nearly every day, but cheered up the moment my UK visitors left . Lots of rain. Autumn's beginning was glorious but no rain and the latter is end is settling into a normal Victorian mid-autumn.

Massive rainfall in NSW, high winds, not nice at all.

So it's not dry and sunny all the time.

It’s unbelievable 😭😂 once again I’m so glad I don’t know people like this irl

I should have said we've not had anything like the weather those in the UK are enduring. Yet. Most of my family live there and I can see it grinds them down a bit.

Funnily enough our mountain rescue has been busier than normal this year due to horrendous conditions in the mountains. Sometimes the mountains are not the best place to walk if the weather has been as bad as it has been this year.

”It’s not been so bad”. By me today…

Edited to add that the hideous concrete monstrosity is a sea defence wall, designed to keep the water out.

Just get a dinghy and stop moaning!