Thanks @AuntyRach but my OH made apple cake earlier so I have had my sweet treat for today. I was going to offer @punkdoc some homemade chicken soup earlier but it sounds as though he is sorted. We are in the Affinity water area (used to be 3 valleys) they have said the aquifers are so low we need biblical amounts of rain for there not to be shortages next year. Trouble seems to be that they are sending it to the wrong places.
Morning everyone. The fires are getting worse. 100 homes lost, 7 people unaccounted for, can’t use the water bombing planes because of the high winds and today is expected to be worse. The main focus is around Glen Innes. But at least 5 fires still out of control. 🥺🥺
Morning all/afties Pat. I heard yesterday that they think a huge percentage of the koala population has been lost in NSW. The fires have devastated large area of their habitat. Good to see you @GGardengirl.. Minus 2 here, but a very pink sky across the south. I'll take that in preference to the weather in @punkdoc's area. A chap on the radio yesterday was saying the problem is that they stopped dredging. He lives in the area and said the actual water depth wasn't that great, but they used to dredge several times a year, so the problem is what's under the water. Isn't that what happened elsewhere [Somerset?] a couple of years ago? Why don't they listen and act appropriately?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning - hope @punkdoc is safe and dry. Scary situation.
Had a great time volunteering the other day - hard work though. Really friendly bunch ......think I’m going to like it there 😀👍🏻😀
Met up with someone from my garden club yesterday- I’m going to start getting more involved in the running of it. Just been elected on to the Committee and now have a bunch of phone calls to make before the next meeting.
Went to a talk in the village hall last night about life round here in Ww2. Learned that a German Bomber plane was shot down and crashed in our valley - and that if an invasion had happened we were just south of the defence line, and would have been sacrificed to the enemy, in order to protect London and the Midlands. Explains why there are so many pill boxes in the countryside where we walk. Fascinating stuff.
And today (.....sublime to the ridiculous.....) I am off on a C@&£#as shopping expedition. Two sisters, Two nieces and Chicklet. We’ll miss littlest Chicklet, but its getting close enough now for me to start counting the sleeps (38 😉) til she’s home for a bit 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Re floods and dredging ... as I understand it, dredging may lessen flooding upstream, but it speeds up the river flow towards what were the flood plains, but we’ve built homes on the flood plains 😨 ...... so strategy changed and it became good practice to try to slow the river flow by less dredging creating boggy planted areas upstream that would act like sponges holding water and slowing its flow, thus preventing flooding downstream.
The problem is the torrential downpours we’re experiencing more often nowadays ... there’s just too much water for the system to cope.
A return to more frequent dredging might stop some of the flooding upstream but the flooding downstream in the more residential areas would be even worse. 🙄
Wonder whether Moira made it home last night?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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We are in the Affinity water area (used to be 3 valleys) they have said the aquifers are so low we need biblical amounts of rain for there not to be shortages next year. Trouble seems to be that they are sending it to the wrong places.
Now I’ve been sent to bed ... apparently I was nodding off ... 🥱
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good to see you @GGardengirl..
Minus 2 here, but a very pink sky across the south. I'll take that in preference to the weather in @punkdoc's area. A chap on the radio yesterday was saying the problem is that they stopped dredging. He lives in the area and said the actual water depth wasn't that great, but they used to dredge several times a year, so the problem is what's under the water. Isn't that what happened elsewhere [Somerset?] a couple of years ago? Why don't they listen and act appropriately?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Had a great time volunteering the other day - hard work though. Really friendly bunch ......think I’m going to like it there 😀👍🏻😀
Met up with someone from my garden club yesterday- I’m going to start getting more involved in the running of it. Just been elected on to the Committee and now have a bunch of phone calls to make before the next meeting.
Went to a talk in the village hall last night about life round here in Ww2. Learned that a German Bomber plane was shot down and crashed in our valley - and that if an invasion had happened we were just south of the defence line, and would have been sacrificed to the enemy, in order to protect London and the Midlands. Explains why there are so many pill boxes in the countryside where we walk. Fascinating stuff.
And today (.....sublime to the ridiculous.....) I am off on a C@&£#as shopping expedition. Two sisters, Two nieces and Chicklet. We’ll miss littlest Chicklet, but its getting close enough now for me to start counting the sleeps (38 😉) til she’s home for a bit 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I gave up last night and ended up in bed at 7.30 last night.
Not surprising if you were a bit kn@ckered @Hostafan1 ((hugs)).
Sounds grim in NSW @Pat E 😢
Re floods and dredging ... as I understand it, dredging may lessen flooding upstream, but it speeds up the river flow towards what were the flood plains, but we’ve built homes on the flood plains 😨 ...... so strategy changed and it became good practice to try to slow the river flow by less dredging creating boggy planted areas upstream that would act like sponges holding water and slowing its flow, thus preventing flooding downstream.
The problem is the torrential downpours we’re experiencing more often nowadays ... there’s just too much water for the system to cope.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.