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

My kids are 20+ and left home. I still don’t want to snuggle for 4-5 months. I want to get out in the fresh air, sunshine and do stuff. Without having to factor in driving rain, gale force winds and ice. Thanks very much.

Dont get me wrong. I like the occasional snuggle as much as the next woman but I’m over it now.

only upside is can think of is that my Tuesday night yoga class is quiet because nobody can face going out in it.

Agree, it’s miserable. Although where I am, the rain hasn’t been too bad this month, there’s been some beautiful sunshine at times. It’s awful today! I have a dog too, and I love taking her to the woods, but due to the mud it’ll be a boring soggy street walk for us.

We have a coarse haired spaniel cross, she’s utterly bonkers and loves to jump into and roll on everything she sees.

We have to shampoo her after every walk at the moment, which takes half an hour. An hour fucking washing the dog every day!

Yes I ‘don’t have to do it’ and I’m far from house proud, but even I can’t allow smears of mud all over the inside of the house.

It’s finally stopped raining after over 24 continuous hours but new clouds are gathering and in any event the kids are poorly with a hideous cold and were up coughing all night. I want to scream!

I highly recommend a mud daddy for post walk mud rinsing.

I'm with you! We are SW Scotland, coastal and it's torrential here today! I am sick of the mud. With 3 dogs its a fucking nightmare drying them off and washing and drying dog towels and throws. Wish it would fuck right off...

Just heard the wheelie bins falling over 🙄

It will be a windy and wet beach walk again today! Our garden is flooded and we also have a bloody mole. The wee shit is making it more muddy with it's flipping mounds! Urgh..

Thanks for this thread @Playingvideogames solidarity against rain and mud. Xx

Sick of it too. Plus it is making my joints hurt.

My hairdresser just cancelled today's appointment. I was relieved.

I left my freeloading cats at home this morning on their blanket in front of the radiator while I tried to get past the floods around my Somerset town without floating away. Someone else was being towed out of the flood waters by a tractor.
I was an hour late for work. What fun.

To add insult to injury I'm doing home visits on the Somerset levels this afternoon which will be a nightmare and I've got a student with me. There could be some walking through floodwater to get to them so I have my thigh high wellies in the car, they are medical visits so they have to be seen.

It's really getting me down too. We actually had a clear, bright day here on Saturday and I felt so much better. It felt as though spring was on the way. Then on Sunday it was back to wet and gloomy and it's now pissing down for the 3rd consecutive day.

I'm trying to console myself with the knowledge that it doesn't get properly dark until 4.30 or thereabouts now, but when it's so gloomy that's small comfort.

In fairness we did have a drought in most of the UK last summer

But yes, it's relentless. The pond overflowed 3 weeks ago and it's just got worse and worse. The whole garden and drive are under water, the roof is leaking and we've a yellow warning for rain again today.

It feels so long since we had any sunshine.

Just ventured out, the field at the bottom of the road is under 2 feet of water and about to overwhelm the bank separating it from some bungalows, who are now pleading for sandbags. The main roads into the village are mostly impassable and the last upright bush on our road has been toppled. Nursery have been forced to close as the staff can’t make it in.

Puddlesuits indeed.

Thank you, ordered

Good luck, hope it helps! It's useful for taking out in the car as well. Ours is used several times a day, don't tend to need shampoo unless she's rolled in something disgusting 🙈

We've done our mud walk for day, a nice bit of hail to the face as well for added enjoyment!

For the first time in the 4 years that I’ve worked in this office, I drove rather than walked. After walking to and from gym I just couldn’t face it. The park was flooded and it was absolutely throwing it down.

i’m fed up of it too, was horrible at work this morning in the strong wind and sideways rain. I had to hang on to my lollipop for dear life!

Yes, it’s grim. I’m in the west near the coast, so it’s been relentlessly soggy.
However, back in the summer one of the local reservoirs became 50% dry mud, another became so depleted it developed islands and the local sailing club couldn’t use it, it was too shallow even for their little boats. The tap water in late summer became noticeably chlorinated. We do need this rain, and we need to get a lot better at managing our water.
Not that that makes getting the dog out any easier.

You have my huge respect for being a Lollipop Person.

Back just a few years ago there'd be freezing weather in winter because I'd be scraping my car windscreen every morning and buying de icer. It's never freezing now and I can't even remember where my scraper is. This is NE England. It never snows either, despite weather warnings. I guess we get rain now instead. At least snow is dryish and brightens things up.

Will no one think of the reservoirs? 😈

We had about an hour of sun here this morning in Wales, I was happily doing my spring baskets and it all changed, high winds and about to tip down . Had to laugh as my dogs pushed open the house door and went back in from the garden 😂

And we’re stuck with it as some bright sparks took away our right to move somewhere sunny should we want to!

My DW's carers from India are with you @ThisIsAGlobalPlayerOriginalPodcast .

Call this rain! You should see the monsoon.

Don't check the weather app and look at the next two weeks...
I am a teacher and have the added fun of endless wet plays!