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Anyone got a blueprint for an Ark? My back garden is full of puddles and it is well draining sandy soil but with the rain unrelenting for nearly 2 weeks it's only a wee while until the puddles join up and I have a lake!

Won't mention the state of my kitchen floor with all the muddy paws and shoes coming in.

Westi

Hi Westi, sadly more forecast I believe. My raised beds are OK, but the rest is pretty squelchy, and the duck pen is a mudslide, LOL !

Been to Hatfield Forest this afternoon, the stream is cooing hard into the lake and the siphon/overflow device which maintains the depth at a preset level was roaring as the water spills into it over the lip. Everywhere we went, apart from the bits covered in leaf litter were dotted with puddles of standing water.

All you Southern folk praying for rain and getting it is shaking my lack of faith! Looking at the Countryfile forecast for the week ahead was quite encouraging, parochially speaking.

Seems to have been a fair bit of rain here, but, then, it's normal for it to be wet a lot of the time. In fact, looking at my "rain gauge" - Afon Wen, the river running alongside our field, it hardly rose at all yesterday. Normally it's up and down like the proverbial b*******'* k*******.
An unusual feature yesterday: at 7.30am the thermometer showed 42F, at 8.30pm it showed 42F and the max/min markers had not moved at all during the intervening 13 hours.
Looking like a good breezy, fine washing day today, and a fair forecast for the rest of the week.

Trust the weather's link to s*ds law.

Weekend miserable, back in the office now and having to use the blinds to avoid getting the sun in my eyes, clear sky to the horizon and 18c forecast.

The rain has been noticed

Parts of England no longer in drought after heavy rain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18032552

It's the Prince of Wales doing the weather forecast up in Scotland that is really going to screw the weather up now

alan refail wrote:The rain has been noticed

Well they must be blind up here!!!!

We are still in drought, apparently! Anglian Water drought assessors (if that's what they are ) must be the only people NOT to have noticed the monsoon like conditions we have been enduring since April 4th (eve of the hosepipe ban in case the significance of the date had escaped you).

We have had rivers of water running down the side of the house and lakes by the front door and we're half way up a hill!!! Got to pity the poor so and so's in the houses, across the road at the bottom of the hill - they have fairly impressive water features in their gardens now .

VPM
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if anyone is needing water ive got plenty going spare
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