It's Shattering Down?

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There are loads and loads of different phrases that people use around the world for describing heavy rain. I did a whole episode of the podcast about it, my listeners can find that one in the archive. Well, we do as well sometimes, we'll say, oh, it's cats and dogs here? No, we would miss out raining. You know, it uses a shortened form. But yeah, I guess people do say it's pissing it down. Which is odd. Or it's raining buckets or it's bucketing. As my mother used to say, and I don't know whether it was just her, her made-up thing, but she used to say it's

A conversation with my (lovely) mum in which we generally witter on about a number of different things including some British history, ways of describing rain, different expressions for talking (like rambling and wittering), my mum's accent, what she thinks of this podcast and some of her podcast recommendations. Vocabulary is explained after the conversation and there is a vocabulary list available.

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