To be despairing at the rain

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It’s just so miserable. We never ever seem to just get a few days of rain, once it starts it goes on for weeks or even months at a time. We are on day 14 of rain with very little let up, high winds and this shit is forecast to go on for another 3 solid weeks if the Met Office is right.

I have small children and a dog and my life seems to be cleaning pram wheels, washing the dog’s feet, trying to wrangle my kids into/out of wet weather gear, and running between places trying not to get completely soaked. The mud is awful and gets everywhere. It’s making my house smell.

I just find it so depressing

Oh god me too! We’re in Devon and have yet another weather warning.. I feel like I can’t actually remember the last time it wasn’t raining.

the roof is leaking but can’t get a roofer, all the drains are blocked. It’s grey and cold and miserable. I am just so grateful I booked two weeks away at Easter!

Dry here today in the south east, as a relief not to need an umbrella for the school run! And no puddles yay!

i can hear it’s started again outside though 😩

I mentioned to someone today at work, that I cant remember the last time I seen the sun. And this is genuinely true.

I live in Ireland and its been cold, windy and rainy all month.

It doesnt help that I have a dog that needs about 2 hours of walks per day - an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening.

To be honest, I have just learned now to go out, if I get soaked, I get soaked, I'll just dry off or jump in the shower at home.

@Playingvideogames I really really feel your pain. We have 4 kids age 7 and under and I’m so so sick of them being indoors or making a mad dash to scramble everyone into the car with alll their gear to try and grab an hour between the rain.

today I got the 2 year old and 10 month old out for about 50 minutes when it wasn’t raining to a park. The baby was bored and really cold by the end of it and I was pushing him and carrying the crying two year old wondering why I bothered (was more for my sanity)

but the guilt is so real when the kids come in from school and we are confined to the house. All I seem to be doing is managing arguments, trying to cook and clean, make snacks, battle homework and pray for bedtime. It feels sad and I’m back to work next month and it just feels like the last three months haven’t been anywhere near as enjoyable as it would have been to have the kids.off over summer (last summer I had a three month old and was running on fumes

so yeah, you are not alone. Taking the kids out in blinding rain in fridge cold temperatures is never ever fun all round

I'm not cut out for it either. Wish I could emigrate and live in a country with a guaranteed summer, not one that the only guarantee is wet, windy, grey shit from October to April. We might just get the odd day between Oct - March that's bright, dry and mild or bright and frosty (I like a hard frost) but usually it's just wet, windy and grim. And we get plenty of that shite in spring, summer and autumn too. That's what pisses me off! Winter grey, wet crap is GUARANTEED, warm and sunny never is!

I know it's not always so shite and we've had worse winters than this but I am just fed up of muddy floors, and a shitty miserable garden, and endless grey.

definitely fewer dogs, Chaos.

I feel guilty if mine doesn’t get a decent walk, we are usually out for around 2 hours. Today he hoodwinked me into a puppaccino and a sausage at the local outdoor cafe. It was so bitterly cold that I just wanted to get through my coffee and go home.

did I mention how much I dislike having a dog in winter?!

I'm in Dublin and around 5pm yesterday there was a glimpse of clear sky and the most spectacular orange glow on the clouds. I got on the bus at 5.20pm and by the time I got off at 5.50pm, the rain had started up again🙁. It's the grey cloud and mist that are the worst. It's so depressing. And it's lashing rain and howling wind yet again now. And it's cold as well! Why can't we have a bit of snow for a while? At least it would seem cleaner and brighter!

Imagine forming your whole personality around what goes on externally, outside of your house, that you cannot control.

Honestly, 90% of you on this thread should do yourselves a favour and emigrate. Then you can complain instead about how "oppressive" the heat is.

I don't mind the rain. It's the mud that's getting me down.

In Kent, they still have a hosepipe ban due to lack of rain!

YADNBU. It's relentless here too and once again I've woken up to the sound of rain hammering on the windows.

We booked to go to Chester Zoo today but yet another storm is here. I'm not fancying the M62. So thinking of story time at the library instead and maybe indoors play area - AGAIN!
But we had a lot of good sunny days out last year and a drought and the hosepipe ban has only just been lifted!
But it's definitely getting wetter and windier year on year.

Sadly this is global warming in action. Too late to change it , we need to learn to live with extreme weather now.

Climate change. Warmer air holds more moisture = more rain.

I am very much of the puddlesuit and get on with it brigade, but my son draws the line at wet and very cold and windy too.

However why in the world are you cleaning pram wheels? Life's too short!

I'm in Australia it's 48° I'd love some of your rain! 🥵

If it makes you feel at all better it has been an almost unbroken spell of heavy rain here in Spain for about two weeks too! We're definitely struggling here as we're not used to it either. Dh's classic utterance is "It's raining, we can't do anything!"

I’m preferring the rain to the snow we had a couple of weeks ago - that was 4 days of travel disruption! It can rain solidly until half term and then the dry weather better arrive (although I’m holidaying in Wales … ha!).

It's not any part of my personality. What a strange thing to say. I don't think I've mentioned it to a soil on real life, I'm just really looking forward to better weather.

The children at school will be inside for breakfast club, playtime and most likely lunch today. That has a big impact on my working day. I also hate strapping two children into the car as water trickles down my back soaking my trousers 😂 Nothing to do with making this my personality, I just much prefer warm weather.

I don’t have children but find it miserable. Even if rant rain it’s been very dull.

Trying to count my blessings of this being a minor problem. I’m not in any of the stormy weather areas. Also prefer to 42 in Australia or -27 in Minneapolis. Rain seems sideways though.

Days are getting a bit lighter -,Spring will come so even if it is wet there will be flowers.

I totally agree with this. Not just play areas, everything. For a country short on space why are supermarkets built with the car park next to them and not underneath like Ikea? Why are houses not better insulated through building regs? Why aren't they designed with boot / drying rooms like outdoors centres awlays have. Why don't they start building schools with more inside spaces - wet lunchtime in a secondary school is awful and there isn't enough communal indoor space for students unless you let them into classrooms but in most schools unsupervised they will trash them. And most schools have done away with cloakroom and lockers so kids are just dragging wet coats around all day.

Yet even in the east where you get barely any rain it is raining constantly!

I don't think I've seen the sun since new year. The other day it was so dark I had the lamps on all day. Torrential rain today to add to the gloom.

Just relieved my DC are both in school now and I no longer have to drag the little one to school on my days off or eldest to do the nursery drop off before school.

I am in area where you can not get rain for weeks and weeks and yet it is raining so much more right now. Plus we have a leak after very heavy rain!

Hence why bought a heated dryer rack as nothing was drying. 🙄

Yep. We have horses and run a yard. It’s not fun at the moment!