Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head!

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed how much it’s been raining this month? I got a VERY expensive pair of wellies for Christmas which my husband said I’d never wear and I’m proving him wrong by donning them every single day!

I don’t mind the rain. From indoors. Sitting in my living room with an almighty downpour going on outside is often quite atmospheric and I even quite like it. The thing is, when the almighty down pour comes I am inevitably NOT cosied up in my living room staring out over the woodland outside my big bay window. Instead, of course, I am IN the woodland having just taken Florence to nursery with Jimmy in the buggy while I’ve left the rain cover at home. People walk past us tutting and looking pityingly at my baby wondering what kind of mother wouldn’t cover him in such rain! (That kind of mother is, if you’re wondering, the kind who doesn’t get much sleep, doesn’t have time to watch the weather forecast and is so late getting to school that she doesn’t even look around at the grey clouds looming when she’s running out of the door shoving last minute breakfast toast in her children’s mouths!)

The ‘after rain’ I don’t mind on the face of it either! I can totally see the fun in jumping in puddles while wearing appropriate clothing of puddle suits and wellies! Of course I can and I wholeheartedly encourage it WHEN dressed in all the gear. But… As I mentioned, I can be a bit dozy and a trip to the park once I’ve noticed the sunshine has come out often ticks all the boxes and because of my doziness I forget about the deluge of earlier in the day! We skip off to the park in trainers and jeans just as we did the other day without a second thought to how wet everything will be.

My Mum would take a tea towel with her to dry the swings and the slide but not me. I end up having to do it with my own sleeve! Jimmy, a typical boy, spots a puddle a mile off and at 20 months I don’t suppose it’s fair to expect him not to run head on into the muddiest one in the park! It IS a little galling when he jumps so hard he slips right over in it and covered in mud, soaking wet through, runs right back to me shouting ‘CUDDLE’!

As more rain descends upon the UK the bookies have been forced to cut the odds of January being the wettest ever on record to just 6/4! Perhaps I should just assume rain then and go out prepared every day! It’s also odds-on at 4/5 that 2014 sets a new record as the year with the most rainfall! Jessica Bridge, a PR and Communications Executive for Ladbrokes recently commented: “The odds are falling as quick as the rain and it looks like January’s downpours will enter the record books.”

Now… I like the rain but perhaps being in the middle of the wettest month on record (probably) isn’t the time to ask me about it and instead focus on the snow that’s bound to be coming! The beautiful white, fluffy snow which means we can all run around outside like a picture on a Christmas biscuit tin making snow men and giggling when a light snow ball skims past us!

Of course the very next day after the one happy snow day we like and we’re moaning about black sludge, lack of gritters and public transport not being able to cope; so perhaps instead it’s best we roll on into some spring sunshine and be done with it!

So It’s odds-on that this is the year with the most rainfall… But I’m more inclined to bet on a fab summer, I’m ever the optimist! Sunshine here we come, please?!