Wet, Wet, Wet

[niall Y]

No , not the rock group, but the weather. Everything here is completely sodden. The garden path down to the chickens is flooded, as is around the back of my workshop. The end of the field behind this is also under water. The lawn is now a quagmire where I have paddled, to and fro, between the workshop and house.

This is the most waterlogged I have ever known it in the last 15 years. Thankfully my workshop has been a lot safer since I installed a 6 inch drain linking the back field to the drain in the road outside. Previously the workshop was prone to regular flooding. And, there is nothing quite so depressing as standing in a downpour trying to get a pump started to protect ones workshop - other than, of course, failing miserably and having to clean up the mess.

Another side effect of the incessant rain , is that the cabbages leeks and broccoli I transplanted earlier have failed to thrive, They have remained dwarfed as their young roots are failing to cope with being waterlogged,. By contrast some broccoli I planted 4 weeks earlier, is thriving.

 

[Spectric]

Everything here is completely sodden.

But you do live in Wales and like Cumbria we are known for the rain with oonly scotland beating us on many occasions.

 

[Cabinetman]

I really do sympathise re your workshop, I had mine flooded once. It’s soul destroying.
But, heyho it’ll be hosepipe bans soon.
Ian

 

[niall Y]

But you do live in Wales and like Cumbria we are known for the rain with oonly scotland beating us on many occasions.

Ah ... yes, - "What's a little wet to a water rat" A neighbouring village, Eglwyswrw, nearly broke the record for the largest number of rainy days in a row.

 

[flying haggis]

And the most W's in the name as well...

 

[niall Y]

But at least it has a vowel

 

[RogerS]

Is there anywhere in the country at the moment that is NOT a quagmire ?

 

[flying haggis]

NO aand it is raining again here in North Norfolk (one of the driest counties..........)

 

[selectortone]

It's a shame the water companies couldn't devise a way of storing all this bounty from the heavens. Sadly, paying out shareholders' dividends trumps building new reservoirs.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Stithians, the reservoir (274 acres) that serves us last summer was at the lowest level since it was opened in 1967. Did they take the opportunity to excavate it? No, of course not.

 

[selectortone]

Well of course not. They have overseas shareholders to give our money to.

 

[deema]

You live in Wales, I’m in Cheshire, we know what season it is by the temperature of the rain!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Try West Cornwall - it's either spring or autumn.

 

[treeturner123]

It's a shame the water companies couldn't devise a way of storing all this bounty from the heavens. Sadly, paying out shareholders' dividends trumps building new reservoirs.

Yes, but a number of water companies, especially in the South East have put forward plans for new reservoirs only to get trapped in the hell that is Planning with all it rules and NIMBYs!!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

They probably wouldn't need more reservoirs if they fixed the leaks. 3,000,000,000 litres per day.

 

[Spectric]

NO aand it is raining again here in North Norfolk (one of the driest counties..........)

That means the price of potatoes will be going up .

 

[stuart little]

Perhaps it's time to start rice production. More reservoirs, catching this amount of rain, would probably sink the country!

 

[stuart little]

Even worse in mainland Europe.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Andrew Neil, many years ago - I feel embarrassed when telling American friends that I live on a wet island that's short of water.

 

[stuart little]

No , not the rock group, but the weather. Everything here is completely sodden. The garden path down to the chickens is flooded, as is around the back of my workshop. The end of the field behind this is also under water. The lawn is now a quagmire where I have paddled, to and fro, between the workshop and house.

This is the most waterlogged I have ever known it in the last 15 years. Thankfully my workshop has been a lot safer since I installed a 6 inch drain linking the back field to the drain in the road outside. Previously the workshop was prone to regular flooding. And, there is nothing quite so depressing as standing in a downpour trying to get a pump started to protect ones workshop - other than, of course, failing miserably and having to clean up the mess.

Another side effect of the incessant rain , is that the cabbages leeks and broccoli I transplanted earlier have failed to thrive, They have remained dwarfed as their young roots are failing to cope with being waterlogged,. By contrast some broccoli I planted 4 weeks earlier, is thriving.

The easterly gale last Thurs/Friday tore a strip of felt on my workshop roof, free from its nails, & flipped it neatly over the ridge. Unfortunately, I'm no longer fit enough to get up there, & my neibours too busy working, so will have to wait. At the weekend the wind veered, & blew it back, then proceeded to try destroying it! Now I need to get new felt, c'est la vie!