Liquid sunshine🌦️

As the rain steadily falls and the room feels gloomy, I know it is time to turn the fairy lights on and fill the kettle. I am influenced by light levels and although I don't suffer SAD as painfully as others do, I do feel it and it weighs heavily on me. I find that walking or gardening help however I have had enough of being out in the rain and have chosen to drop my plans for a yomp up and out of the valley and am turning inward.

So, once I've finished tapping away at the laptop, I shall get my SAD light, my water colours and lose myself in colour and mugs of tea. I have just glanced up and the cat is staring at me with such a frown. She is visibly accusing me of either causing the driech wet weather or my lack of ability to fix it. My dear cat, if I could, I would.

All this sounds rather depressing and it's not meant to be. It is what it is (dreadful phrase but it fits here). 

Moments later, the cat has just returned from an attempted foray into the garden. She is drenched, her coat sparkling with raindrops as she leaves foot prints across the floor. I suspect that she will now situate herself behind the wood burner and steam herself gently dry for the rest of the day.

As predicted, she did indeed vanish behind the wood burner, 

this photo is from a day or two ago

I shall just have to embrace the rain, it is January after all and use it as an excuse to give myself the day off. 

And, just for a moment's entertainment I found this ....

104 words for rain here in the UK

1. Ache and pain (Cockney rhyming slang)
2. Bange (East Anglia), a sort of dampness in the air, w/ light rain 🚿
3. Bleeter (Scottish) 💧 ⏳
4. Bluffart (Scottish) ❄️ ⏳ 😲
5. Blunk (Shropshire) 💧 ⏳
6. Cloudburst 💧⚡😲
7. Cow quaker 💧
8. Dag of rain (Scottish) 🚿 ⏳
9. Deluge 💧
10. Dibble (Shropshire) Slow rain
11. Dimpsey (West country) 🚿
12. Downpour 💧
13. Dreich (miserable weather, Scottish)
14. Drencher 💧
15. Dringey (Norflk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire)🚿
16. Drisk (Cornwall) 🚿
17. Driving rain 💨
18. Drizzle 🚿
19. Duke of Spain (Cockney rhyming slang)
20. Flist (Scottish) 🚿
21. Flurry ⏳
22. Fox’s wedding (The West Country) 😲
23. Haar (Cornish, Scotlish, N. English), drizzle from the sea 🚿
24. Harle (Lincolnshire), drizzle from the sea 🚿
25. Haster (England), a violent storm⚡
26. Haud (Scottish) 😲
27. Hemple (West Country) 🚿
28. Hig (England)⚡ ⏳
29. Hurley Burley (England) 💧⚡
30. It’s beating down 💧
31. It’s chucking it down 💧
32. It’s coming down in buckets/bucketloads 💧
33. It’s coming down in sheets 💧
34. It’s coming down it torrents 💧
35. It’s drumming down, heavy rain heard through a roof 💧
36. It’s getting biblical out there 💧⚡
37. It’s hammering (it) down 💧
38. It’s henting (Cornwall) 💧
39. It’s hossin (Cumbrian) 💧
40. It’s hoyin it doon (N. E. England) 💧
41. It’s lashing (it) down 💧
42. It’s lattin (Shropeshire), Enough rain to make outdoor work difficult
43. It’s letty (Somerset), Enough rain to make outdoor work difficult
44. It’s luttering down 💧
45. It’s maumy (N. English/Scottish) 🚿
46. It’s pattering 🚿
47. It’s peeing (it) down 💧
48. It’s pelting (it) down 💧
49. It’s pissing (it) down 💧
50. It’s plothering down (Midlands and N. England) large droplets with no wind 💧
51. It’s pouring/pouring down 💧
52. It’s raining cats and dogs 💧
53. It’s raining chair legs, painfully heavy rain 💧
54. It’s raining like a cow reliving itself 💧
55. It’s raining sideways 💨
56. It’s raining stair rods, painfully heavy rain 💧
57. It’s raining upwards, rain so heavy that it bounces 💧
58. It’s siling/syling down (N. England) 💧
59. It’s spitting 🚿
60. It’s spluttering 🚿
61. It’s sprinkling 🚿
62. It’s stottin (N. England and Scotland) heavy rain that bounces 💧
63. It’s teeming from the heavens (N. Irish) 💧
64. It’s thrashing (it) down 💧
65. It’s throwing it down 💧
66. It’s tipping (it) down 💧
67. It’s tippling (it) down 💧
68. It’s yukken it doon (Cumbrian) 💧
69. It’s trickling 🚿
70. Kelsher, a heavy shower 💧 
71. Liquid sunshine, sudden rain on a sunny day 😲
72. Misla (Irish Traveller)
73. Mizzle (N.Engis), misty drizzle 🚿
74. Mochy weather (Scotish, N. Irish) 🚿
75. Monsoon, heavy summer rain 💧 
76. Mothery (Linconshire) 🚿
77. Nice weather for ducks!
78. Onslaught 💧 
79. Peeggirin (Scottish) a stormy shower 💧 
80. Plash (Northumbrian) 😲
81. Pleasure and pain (Cockney rhyming slang)
82. Plum shower (Scottish) 💧
83. Posh (Shropshire) 💧
84. Precipitation
85. Rain
86. Raining forks’tiyunsdown’ards (Lincolnshire) like it’s raining pitchforks 💧
87. Scotch mist 🚿
88. Sea fret (N. English) mizzle from the sea 🚿
89. Shower ⏳
90. Skew (Cornwall) ⏳
91. Skite (Scottish) 🚿 ⏳
92. Sleet ❄️
93. Smirr (Scottish) 🚿
94. Smizzle (Scottish) 🚿
95. Soaker 💧
96. Soft weather (N. Irish) 🚿
97. Squall  🚿
98. Steaking 🚿
99. The heavens have opened 😲
100. The smoky smirr o rain (Scotland) 🚿
101. The Wet
102. Thunderstorm ⚡
103. Torrent/Torrential 💧
104. Yillen (Scottish) 🚿 💨

Thanks to Starkeycomics.com for the list