With 3 boys under 5, there’s never a dull moment. Certainly never a quiet one… Buggy Blogger mum to J (4), B (2) and S (1) has had enough of the wet look.

It's raining, it's pouring. Waterproofs are boring. Why is it that while you can buy twenty types of accessory for your pushchair there's a dearth of decent togs about for the poor weather-beaten mummy pushing it?

Flick through the baby catalogues and you'll find enough buggy gadgets to sink a nappy-laden cargo ship – cosy toes, rain-guards, buggy boards, drinks holders, buggy connectors, anti-tip devices, insect and cat (!) guards, dangly toys… But is there anything vaguely hip around to kit out mummy against the rain? Not that I've found.

I'm not talking umbrellas – unless anyone can divulge the secret of one-handed double-buggy pushing? What I need is something vaguely stylish that'll keep me dry in a deluge whilst leaving my hands free to push around my jammily rain-guarded offspring.

I used to have a rather fetching spotted plastic hat that'd do the job OK teamed up with a 'normal' coat. But one careless day a fortnight or so ago we parted company. And ever since I lost it, so has the weather. From tree-uprooting wind to lashing rain and then snow, we've seen it all of late – and I've felt more or less permanently wet and bedraggled ever since.

The boys by contrast have been in seventh heaven. The chance to go outside in wellington boots is, after all, the nearest thing to bliss. And what could beat the promise of … raptures … hot Ribena at the end of a rainy walk home? Or the opportunity to bring out the beloved Thomas umbrella and watch a gale-force wind turn it inside out? Or, better still, lobbing a few snowballs at mummy on the walk to school? What larks!

And while they've been on – and enjoying – cloud nine and his many friends, I’ve been traipsing around rather ungraciously in my emergency back-up rainwear; a green kagool circa 1970. You'll know the type; a scratchy body-clinging polyester number topped with a face-framing drawstring hood. Mmm. Forget yummy mummy. Think overgrown Girl Guide. A wet one at that.

So, in effort to shrug off the drippy look, I've been desperately trawling both the high street and Internet in search of wet-wear salvation. Stuff saving for a … ahem … rainy day, I'm ready and willing to shell out here and now! But all I can find are hats that are OK to look at with the impermeability of a sponge, or those that'd keep a monsoon at bay but wouldn't seem out of place at an octogenarian tea party (either atop the old dears or the teapot itself).

Therefore, unless I decide to go all trendy and embrace Ugly Betty chic in my tongue-in-cheek kagool (which I won't – who do these fashion pundits think they're kidding?) then I'm still on the look-out for some cool wet weather gear. And if anyone can prove such a thing exists, then would they be a love and post their suggestions on this Discussion Forum please?

Failing that, and actually in any case, roll on Spring …

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