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!

Still fucking raining. Kids are going spare in the lounge, but it’s torrential out there. It’s utterly miserable and I can’t believe it’s kept it up for so long.

Not when it’s blowing a fucking hoolie it ain’t.

Didn't rain until 8am this morning. I got out for a run early.
Currently sitting in my livingroom with a pot noodle to warm my hands up and my feet in my heated foot warmer.
This is my easter holiday. I planned to do the garden. Even if it's dry tomorrow, the soil will be heavy as fuck and I so won't be able to cut the grass

Or raining, and it's very hilly.

However, for those saying they haven't been able to go out for weeks, or can't move north because of the weather, give me a break! Most of the rain is torrential and there are breaks in it, if you actually want to go out. Timing is all, though I appreciate not so easy to work around for those with FT jobs, wheelchairs and/or caring responsibilities.

The weather is simply one of many reasons I don’t want to move to the NE of England. People (if they can and/or have the choice) will move to places they know they are more likely to thrive in. It isn’t preposterous not to want to move or live somewhere because you don’t like the weather.

SAME!
We lived in aus and returned because of covid and missing family- i just miss being warm.. I feel so down all the time because it’s gloomy I dont want to work out, because it’s cold I dread getting a shower cos getting out in the freezing cold - I do these things obviously but I just hate being so cold 24/7.
Also I look at making plans for summer.. maybe a little bottomless brunch or a festival or an outdoor cinema date … then I think hmm that’s like £50/£60 and it’ll probably PISS DOWN so I don’t bother booking anything and I sit in my misery and be angry about it 🤣
Oh it’s fun being british!

Most of the rain is torrential and there are breaks in it

I live on the edge of the Pennines. We have had weeks and weeks of no breaks in the rain. We have dodged out for walks in between rainy spells in the very few muddy areas we can access, but it is not a joy to do so.

Raining again and 7c in Glasgow. All the toxic positivity people wanging on about how it's not that bad, and how you just need a nice jacket and a positive attitude are deluded. They like dark and wet and cold and windy because it means they feel justified at hiding away in their "cosy" houses under their "blankets" with their "hot chocs".

Never in my 50 odd years have I asked someone where they're off to on holiday and they've answered "oooh dunno, somewhere that's cold and windy, and guaranteed to piss it down for a fortnight. Lovely".

8 degrees and a cold wind here today, with rain forecast.

My exercise bike is arriving today.

@Misthios yep I personally find all this hiding under blankets very odd. When we lived in Copenhagen the Danes love their hygge! But it usually involved a lot of staying in plus steaming warm cafes and great lighting for a few months- not most of the year

After another day of rain. I agree. It is just miserable.
I love waking up and seeing the sun shine through the kitchen but no just wet and cold. I am sick of being cold.

I think they just want the weather to reflect their dysthymia and enjoy everyone else being down as well

I agree the rain is incessant for poor DP. For me, however, 200 miles south of his address is nearly always pleasant.🤔
Really putting me off moving ooop there.

Nope I'm in SE. Bus to village a couple of times a day in weekdays. Nearest train service has replacement buses and engineering works at least 40 weekends a year it seems and every bank holiday.

London is very different. Have to laugh at Londoners who whinge about a 10 min wait for a bus

We now have pouring sideways rain, and I have to go out in it in half an hour.

The rain is miserable and seemingly relentless.

Not sure it is making me fat though. It is hard to make it to the shop full of snacks when you have to wade through a river and get soaking wet.

Absolutely agree with you, it's pissing me off no end. Sick of looking out of the window at grey gloomy skies, our grass is a foot long, hubby hasn't been able to mow it because it's been piss wet through since last September 😆

It's official, not just a matter of opinion (let alone weatherproof clothes, hot bloody chocolate or relentlessly positive attitudes)
Just seen this in the Guardian.
From the article:
The NFU vice-president, Rachel Hallos, said: “People should be in no doubt about the immense pressure UK farm businesses are under thanks to this unprecedented and constant rain."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/10/uk-food-production-down-record-rainfall-farmers

Out of interest where is it that you are in the UK that it is "nearly always" pleasant?

My definition of pleasant in this instance is sunshine, no rain and minimal wind.

Not with young children whilst heavily pregnant. Not in the pissing rain and howling wind. Not when bike theft is rampant. Not when most roads don't have cycle lanes.

Same - I am really fed up. It was supposed to be dry here until about 11. I had to collect a prescription so took DS out just after 8 - 2 minutes after we left the heavens opened and we got soaked.
Again .

I agree. Mind you I remember in 2011 there was snow on the Campsies and it was the warmest day of the year a few days later. It’s so changeable out that way. I used to live right at the broom of the Campsies (could see them from our window so wearing shorts but seeing snow on higher ground was odd).

We had such glorious weather in 2020 (when no fucker could actually enjoy it). Bring that back!

On the border of Buckinghamshire-Northamptonshire. It's not always sunny but DP lives on the Pennines situated near half a dozen dams. It's always wet or at least 4-8c cooler than where I live.
TBF he hates it as well.