How do you stay resilient with this weather?

Absolutely no judgement from me.  Rant away.  Do you mind if I do as well?

I get strep pretty easily and every year for the first few years I got it more than once.  The GPs don't want to prescribe antibiotics (if you can even get a GP appt with less than 3 weeks notice), and I missed so much work I ended up getting written up to HR.

Then (insert heroic music here) I went to walk in clinic (no GP appointments for weeks) and had a Canadian doctor.  I love that woman.  My husband thought I was a wee bit loopy that I was always so sick, cold and down.  He looks at the weather and just goes by the temp, which is much milder here than in GA in the winters.  That wonderful Canadian doctor explained that winters here are wet and it's get in your bones, never get warm type of cold and she thought that's why I was getting ill with what I already seemed prone to get ill with.  It was the first time I really felt heard.  Like you said, it was affecting my mental health.

It's May and it's still like that this year.  The cold is damp and seeping and I'm done with it.  We better have both a hot and long summer to make up for it.  If I'm not sitting outside in a t-shirt at 8pm in mid-October I will complain to management.

LOL I have  a chronic sinus problem and it seem to get worse in UK. The symptoms are better when I am in a dry climate so I can relate to your strep issue. I use 2 boxes of Kleenex a week since I moved here.

I always look at British people with short sleeves when it is like 10 C out there ,wow, they must have a robust system.

I was invited to a dinner to French/ English couple last weekend and the husband doesn't seem to understand why I have difficulty adjusting to this weather. He was like " Isn't it colder in NY ? "
NY is cold for 2 months but May to October is totally plesant. There is hot summer and cold winter.
Not the same as perpetual chilly and 2 weeks summer
I do realize that Paris is one of few cities that has even worse climate than London. It rains way more than London ! Haha.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I checked next week temperature and yes there are days with 8 C and it will be June.
Thank god my husband is treating me nicely or I would have already left here for good

I have been here for 30+ years, and I *used to be* one of those annoying people who would say things like 'there is no such thing as bad weather; only inappropriate clothes'.  Seriously, it never bothered me because I was either in my car, at work, in a pub or in a taxi... so always sheltered from the elements.  I thought people who complained about the weather were moany and tiresome.

Until I adopted a retired racing greyhound.
In a top floor flat with no garden.
And now I am one of those moany and tiresome people, at least 4 times a day. 
I live in a pretty seaside town in the west of Scotland and yesterday was the first time this year I have been out without a jacket... and today it's back to pishing it down again.
I really hope we get a decent summer so my hound can feel the sun on his back occasionally.

Hi, your first sentence made me laugh so much;) Funny.
I mean how many layers of clothes one is supposed to wear in May to stay warm?
3 ? 4?  lol 
Our neighbor has an elegant looking greyhound dog and he is always stuck in his small apartment beause the owner is always out.... I feel bad for him because I am sure he wants to roam more often.
I also feel bad for people with young kids during the long winter .

I have a suntrap in my garden. I'm really going to complain right now that I'm roasting.

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T Shirt weather today (SHOCK!).  We walked one of our favorite walks, a 7 mile round trip between 2 coastal villages very close to where we live along the top of very high coastal cliffs.  Lovely day, blue sky, 17C, not a breath of wind.

Half way along, at a point where we are close to the cliff edge on one side and a railway line on the other my wife's phone rang.  When she answered it it was someone from the FBU at the US Embassy in London calling about her application to start her Social Security. Just as she started talking a long freight train came rumbling by so she had to shout out what was happening.  When the train had passed she apologized and explained where we were and why she couldn't step away from the train line. She had the phone on speaker so I could hear and also answer some of his questions directed to me. He sounded like a nice young man working from home because we could hear small children in the background.  He asked if she could be available for a telephone appointment on June 14th but my wife said that we would be on holiday so could it be later, and we settled on July 1st. He asked what the view was like from the cliff top and what the weather was like and said that it sounded to him like we were already on holiday.