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05/4/2024 at 12:42pm
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Stop raining! Don't be ridiculous! I've heard rumour they are going to rename the UK to UKALANTIS!
I've got a dog, she gets a decent walk of a mile or two at least, twice a day in the local park (which recently has fields frequently resembling paddy fields, and the river is also overflowing its banks and flooding paths!), plus a few 'wee breaks' in the garden. There are days on end I never seem to get entirely dried out, and the dog is permanently soggy!
I find that a great disincentive to go away, being cooped up in the caravan only seems to make it more miserable, and there doesn't seem to be any parts of the country that are reliably dry any more, the East Coast was always traditionally dryer than elsewhere, but not these days it seems! I've got friends who've recently moved to Lincs by the coast, and they got flooded, first time it's ever happened there!
I'm not really just a fair-weather camper, I love Yorkshire and Cumbria, hardly noted for their perpetual dry climate, but trading my home patch daily drowning for one elsewhere is just not motivating me at the moment!
All this talk of rain, reminds me of an ex-girlfriend who was renowned for saying "it's only a bit of rain, it won't kill you"! As I frequently pointed out to her, she was rarely actually out in it, she left her dry home, to get into her dry car, to go to her dry office! Whilst I spent hours walking my dog and getting totally saturated day in and day out, which she would just poo-poo, UNTIL, we had a week in a cottage in the Lake District, and the rain was Biblical and relentless, the locals said they'd never seen it so bad, and I'd never experienced anything so bad in decades of holidaying in the Lakes. Two days in to this holiday deluge, this 'hardy, bring it on' woman was whimpering at me to please can we pack up and go home! We stuck it out, but it was bloody awful, if that had been my first experience of the Lake District, it'd also have been my last! I know the region well enough to know that's not the norm, and it can and has been glorious weather on most of my visits.
The urge to get away is definitely there, but the weather really is putting me off. I can cope with a shower, I can cope with a 'wet day', but the perpetual, every day rain is too much!
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Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 05/4/2024
All this talk of rain, reminds me of an ex-girlfriend who was renowned for saying "it's only a bit of rain, it won't kill you"! As I frequently pointed out to her, she was rarely actually out in it, she left her dry home, to get into her dry car, to go to her dry office! Whilst I spent hours walking my dog and getting totally saturated day in and day out, which she would just poo-poo, UNTIL, we had a week in a cottage in the Lake District, and the rain was Biblical and relentless, the locals said they'd never seen it so bad, and I'd never experienced anything so bad in decades of holidaying in the Lakes. Two days in to this holiday deluge, this 'hardy, bring it on' woman was whimpering at me to please can we pack up and go home! We stuck it out, but it was bloody awful, if that had been my first experience of the Lake District, it'd also have been my last! I know the region well enough to know that's not the norm, and it can and has been glorious weather on most of my visits.
Maybe because we live in Cumbria (South Lakes) we're not as bothered by swapping daily deluges at home for away!
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