Raining here. Stuff actually looks wet. I brought some garden chairs and cushions etc back into the shed yesterday evening - felt like it marked the official end of the hot Summer.
Proper rain yesterday, pretty much all day, and today is a perfect summer's day. About 20C, fluffy white clouds in a lovely blue sky and gentle breeze. I know where I'll be today!
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
We had our first proper rain yesterday. All day, soaking, deluging rain and then more today. Such a relief and so much cooler.
I am realising that there is a socially vital, unsung job that it is critical to working road networks. Drain unblockers. I have never seen anyone systematically going around clearing out leaf debris and rubbish from street drains, but without that person roads flood. I bet the Victorians had an army of these important people. I've been looking for the past few months at our local drains and they are entirely solid with leaf mulch. So yesterday, naturally, roads were a foot deep in rain water. What else do they imagine is going to happen if nobody attends to it regularly?
Came in for a cup of tea as it started to drizzle - full blown rainstorm now, wind, water, everything. What next I wonder? This is more like it, uncertainty, that's what our weather should be like.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
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apparently we can expect more rain this afternoon.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.