What we need here is any reasonable amount of rain at all. Run-off doesn't seem to be an issue on our soil but it needs more than the odd millimetre or two to do any good. At the moment there's a low-ish probability in the forecast for some at the weekend but it doesn't look like it'll be much.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Our soil is normally very free draining and easy to dig. Prior to the most recent rain it would have needed a pneumatic drill to get through it. As it does have a bit of a slope water just ran off.
Severn Trent haven't imposed a hosepipe ban in our area yet.
@B3 in veg gardening the old books talk about hoeing regularly to keep a 'dust mulch " a dry fine layer on top that weeds won't grow in but also will protect soil lower down, and let water in either when you irrigate or when it rains.
Some time ago I sent a video clip to my favourite Youtube channel, Ashley Neal's Driving Education. It shows a ridiculous number of bad drivers merging at a Motorway slip road, so I submitted it for use in one of his Driving Fails compilations, but yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to see it in one of his Nice Driving videos instead!
I wish I had dashcam when I was following a car down the on-slip, fortunately keeping well back as I always do. Instead of building up speed, the driver stopped at the bottom of the ramp to look for traffic coming!
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Sitting down raise your right leg off the floor and move your foot in clockwise circles.
Now, with your right hand draw the number 6 in the air. As you do so your foot will make anti-clockwise circles.
Left foot, left hand produces the same results but right foot, left hand and left foot, right hand doesn’t.