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AnyFucker · 2021-05-17T09:03:54+00:00

The weather is crap We are being primed for a screeching halt to the roadmap Lovely sunny foreign holidays off the agenda for the foreseeable We got through a long, hard winter for this ? So fed up.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 17/05/2021 12:36

@MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously

And I've gone vegetarian, which has fucked up my diet and my mood!

All credit to you, but frankly I'd bin it off and have a nice cheeseburger if I were you! Now is not the time to be taking additional steps to put ourselves in a bad mood 🍔

SunglassesSeventy · 17/05/2021 12:41

The weather is definitely a downer!

The only positive about the terrible weather is that I don't feel I'm missing out while I'm at work all week.

Yesterday it was my son's 18th, we bought a gazebo last minute so he could sit underneath it with his 5 friends in the pouring rain! Somehow the fire bowl (not under the gazebo) managed to keep going through the downpours and they were able to dash out in non-rainy patches to grill burgers.

Setting it up in the rain felt so depressing, but amazingly they had a really great evening and were quite cosy under the gazebo with the fire burning nearby.

In my part of the UK the weather looks set to get better on the 25th May, I think things will all seem much more positive when it stops raining.

SpindleWhorl · 17/05/2021 12:56

It's absolutely hammering it down here. More to follow.

onemouseplace · 17/05/2021 13:05

I feel so flat as well. We've got plans for stuff after 21st June and I just want to know whether or not it can go ahead!

Honestly, I'm so over all this. 14 months of low level anxiety, ups and downs has really affected my resilience - normally I'm quite a can-do person, but I'm really struggling at the moment.

Axlcat · 17/05/2021 13:22

I completely understand. What I would give for just one day laying in the garden in the sunshine. I feel depleted.

Kyph · 17/05/2021 13:33

I do so agree.
This time last year we seemed to have weeks of endless sunshine.
I booked a short UK coastal break for this week back in January. I have been looking forward to it ridiculously, almost succeeding in putting out of my head the med / beach holiday I would have had. The forecast is for gale force winds and even colder. I will be packing as if for a January UK holiday.

The good news is that it's now 3 weeks past my second dose and I have hugged my unvaccinated teacher DS for the first time in ages.

The news is grim and I am going to do as much of the things we are allowed before it all goes bad again.

Ostara212 · 17/05/2021 13:33

@Axlcat

I completely understand. What I would give for just one day laying in the garden in the sunshine. I feel depleted.

I'd love a garden but at least I'm used to being indoors and just assume indoors. The weather is not helping but it doesn't make a big difference on a practical level for me.

Unicornish · 17/05/2021 13:42

As much as anything, for me, it's the unending uncertainty about whether we will be back in lockdown again which is getting me down. I'm just absolutely exhausted from all of the restrictions and just craving some proper boring normality. I don't want to do anything extravagant, I just want to live my life without having to plan everything to the nth degree, book months in advance, do lfts, check in on the app, sanitise, wear my mask etc etc etc.

I just want my normal, boring life back.

Ostara212 · 17/05/2021 13:51

@Unicornish

As much as anything, for me, it's the unending uncertainty about whether we will be back in lockdown again which is getting me down. I'm just absolutely exhausted from all of the restrictions and just craving some proper boring normality. I don't want to do anything extravagant, I just want to live my life without having to plan everything to the nth degree, book months in advance, do lfts, check in on the app, sanitise, wear my mask etc etc etc.

I just want my normal, boring life back.

Being unable to plan even a small treat is harder than i thought.

I don't use the app but guessing you mean for hospitality?

I think one poster mentioned the crime scene ambience 😂 I'm not going to the pub unless that changes.

Last year, the poor waiter nearly dropped my friend's pint, he did spill most of it. The pub makes them wear plastic gloves. Not sure if that's all pubs.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 17/05/2021 13:51

I just want my normal, boring life back. sad

It's a strange one, isn't it. We're all bored, but it's the wrong type of bored. I've definitely had enough of living in an interesting historical period.

Ostara212 · 17/05/2021 13:53

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

I just want my normal, boring life back. sad

It's a strange one, isn't it. We're all bored, but it's the wrong type of bored. I've definitely had enough of living in an interesting historical period.

Yes!

Unicornish · 17/05/2021 14:03

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

I just want my normal, boring life back. sad

It's a strange one, isn't it. We're all bored, but it's the wrong type of bored. I've definitely had enough of living in an interesting historical period.

I couldn't agree more!

user68901 · 17/05/2021 14:07

am sick of this fucking weather

ElizabethTudor · 17/05/2021 14:09

Yes I agree. I’ve got stuff planned / booked for after 21 June.
I don’t want to know days before 21 June if it’s going to be cancelled. I’d rather know now, before I’m at the ‘getting excited’ stage.

randomlyLostInWales · 17/05/2021 14:10

I had this all weekend partly the weather but feeling down as all family celebrations last year were in lockdown or really restricted and we've started getting to them again this year with little open or avaliable to do this year as well.

We've been picking up new and old hobbies and keeping occupied but we've reached limites there as well.

I was hoping we'd start seeing family soon at half term but that's looking less likely as well. It all feels so drippy and slow - it feels more wearing than joyful.

ElizabethTudor · 17/05/2021 14:10

@onemouseplace

I feel so flat as well. We've got plans for stuff after 21st June and I just want to know whether or not it can go ahead!

Honestly, I'm so over all this. 14 months of low level anxiety, ups and downs has really affected my resilience - normally I'm quite a can-do person, but I'm really struggling at the moment.

I did try to quote you @onemouseplace re my message above. But I must’ve cocked it up. So I’m now shit at Mumsnet too!

Oblomov21 · 17/05/2021 14:11

"I am sick of myself. "
Same.

Titsywoo · 17/05/2021 14:21

Yeah I'm feeling pretty blah today. We are out for dinner tonight which will be lovely and have a few more dinners booked. In all honesty if it were just me and DH I could cope with the prospect of another lockdown but DD is just finishing her GCSE exams after a shitty stressful year with barely any socialising and is so looking forward to freedom and fun in what is supposed to be one of the greatest summers for young people - between GCSE and ALevel, no responsibility and 3.5 months to kill. If we end up home all summer it will break her I think and if she doesn't get to start sixth form college in person rather than remotely I worry for the long term effects on her. Secondary was really tough and she was bullied for 2 years then struggled with friendships - this was supposed to be a fresh chance for her and an opportunity to make a good group of friends finally.

Fuck covid.

EssentialHummus · 17/05/2021 14:57

Yup. It feels like another instalment of Kick the football, Charlie Brown! and we'll be told tomorrow that thanks to our 24 hours of rain-soaked freedom the entire population of Bolton has passed away and we'll now be in lockdown until 2022.

Ostara212 · 17/05/2021 15:00

I'll be interested to hear how people find pubs and restaurants.

There's a local family owned Italian restaurant who I can't imagine doing order by app. If it stops raining, I will walk by and see. If they have fallen, I will feel,like everyone has!

MyFloorIsLava · 17/05/2021 15:01

I hear you all

The weather is shit
The variant is shit
My job is currently shit
My marriage, frankly, is a bit shit at the moment
I would really like to know if I can have a good party for my child's birthday in early July but we'll probably find out about a week beforehand that we can't
I haven't seen my sister in almost a year

Everything feels so fucking gloomy.

hamstersarse · 17/05/2021 15:03

I am just trying really hard not to get infected with the other virus - the mass collective panic and anxiety. It is very contagious and I feel it rising again.

It's hard to keep away from it though and it is getting even harder to find things that stabilize you in the mass panic - mainly because the weather is shit.

There was a thread on here just last week where people were recounting all the hysterical things they had done last year like quarantining post etc. and posters were saying "god that was batshit" about themselves....yet I feel it is taking over again. There seems no sense of proportion and rationality in the world anymore.

Loubellbell · 17/05/2021 15:05

Honestly ? I don't think people will lock down I think all business will defy it ..they don't have enough man power to do it there are demonstrations going on everywhere so try not to feel blue I do too it is this fking weather

Unicornish · 17/05/2021 15:08

It really is a massive fucking struggle trying to contend with a combination of a global pandemic and British weather!

AbsolutelyPatsy · 17/05/2021 15:11

i cant afford to book a holiday
so, but there are clouds above, must bring washing in