If you're missing friends and family I can't really comment but if you're coming back because you miss the scenery or just the country in general ...

It's been piddling down all day!!! I mean ALL day. Hasn't stopped at all. Was hoping to get to the shops but it's too miserable to drag little people out. They're bored silly, we've spent virtually the whole week in the house due to forementioned s0dding weather. Outdoors is out of bounds unless I want to save myself the job of bathing them tonight... Indoors stuff costs loads. Why? Well places that offer indoor activities have the monopoly don't they? It's always miserable in this country so you HAVE TO go to these places.
At 2pm this afternoon cars were starting to drive around with their headlights on due to it being so grey outside.

Why oh why would anyone want to live here?!?!!?

What I would give to have the freedom to just pack a picnic and take them off outdoors for the afternoon/evening.

Excuse the miserable tone. I'm just having a miserable day and a miserable rant to go with it.
Food for thought for anyone wanting to come back to this.

But do you have any idea of how many people in Aus dream of hearing it rain?
I have the radar map on the pc at present, lovely big blur of rain heading for us just now, but its broken up over the sea. No rain again. .......

Yes it's raining here too, but you'll get the same anywhere everywhere's miserable in the rain...except possibly at the moment Australia, which is praying for it

Don't forget too that we've had an exceptional spring so far - we were well overdue for this rain

yep, we've had weeks without rain, my garden needs it

Its chucking it down here in Edinburgh it will probably do so all weekend We just have to dream of the sun in Oz and hope that it will be us soon.

A month ago we booked this Sunday for a really big family day out at Blair Drummond Safari park. We though, being mid May we'd be sure to get a decent day. No!!! Day out cancelled, forecast for Sunday is heavy rain all day

My back garden looks like a swamp after yesterday's rain, and the dining room is full of laundry which won't dry as the heating's not on cause it's not actually cold, just grim.

I know Australia is crying out for rain. But when it's all that you ever get, it wears you down.

Don't knock the rain mate, I love it - and I'm an Aussie born & bred!

Dark, overcast, rainy days don't depress me at all. I find them quite refreshing after the unforgiving glare of the Australian sun.

Nutter

You should have posted this on the moving back forum..... I can see loads of people coming to there senses and staying put because it,s be raining in the UK this week and you couldnt take your little-uns out

well I used to put my kids in old clothes and wellies and we used to go out jumping in the biggest puddles we could find

the object was to get soaked my kids called it splish splash splosh

they thought i was crazy mummy cos their friends got told off for splashing

But it was great fun and they loved it

I may be a nutter, but I know one thing for sure: rain doesn't burn your skin or give you cancer...

I was just joking pet

Exactly Took my son football training yesterday evening and it was lashing down,but ive never seen so many happy 7 yr olds sliding around in a mud bath in my life.

yeah but if you had nothing but rain... all year, would you still feel the same?

Granted, we did have a good sunny spell for a couple of weeks, but it's as if the weather gods just do it to tease us. Woohoo time to buy summer clothes and book days out and plan BBQ's yay! Aha - they're all ready for summer, let's give them a couple more months of rain

Grr

Apologies if I offend any Oz residents with this post - I know you're having it tough right now and I'm not trying to be insensitive. Wouldn't mind a bit of a summer glow though