This was a comment last Saturday.
Anonymous15 February 2026 at 07:09
So many posts on UK blogs about depressed-sounding pensioners sitting around looking out at the rain. Don’t you ever long for a bit of adventure in foreign lands? With the internet it’s so easy now to organise affordable accommodation for a couple of months. Have you never considered escaping the winter? Helen.
I know why I don't long for adventure or fancy two months somewhere warmer - it would be no fun on my own and I'd be bored stiff!
And anyway, I'm English, moaning about the weather is what we do and always have........
On 26th February 1768, MP Horace Walpole said in his journal "We are drowning again for the second winter, and hear of nothing but floods and desolation"
And weather folklore says.....
"If in Februeer there be no rain,
The hay won't be good, nor the grain.
All other months of the year
Most heartily curse a fine Februeer"
Apparently rainfall records have been broken this winter in many places, so we aren't imagining it!