Glad you have now got a proper diagnosis @Hostafan1. Not much fun for you but you can see a way out.
Hope this morning has brought better weather for you and Moira @punkdoc. But your post read like the beginning of a horror novel!
Hopefully @Dovefromabove and Rob are on their way home now.
I was stood down from the shift I was supposed to do at a local exhibition, for which I was mightily relieved as I was convinced no-one would be going out in what we had here yesterday. Framlingham - not too far from where I live on the A12 - was completely cut off, with an acquaintance of mine stuck overnight in another town, fairly near, after her meeting there. Our local FB pages were full of pictures/videos of people driving slowly through deep water and pleas for the best way to get back home from wherever they were.
Having failed to stand the wheelbarrow up (one of those things - oh I must to that...) it is now completely full of water.
Good afternoon, it seems to be drying up here again I won't moan tho as we have had nothing like the issues some have endured. Hopefully things will improve for @punkdoc, and any others suffering. Well at least you know what you're dealing with now @Hostafan1, did you try my regime to starve it out? might still help with the crypto too.
We're home. A14 and A11 were clear but still lots of water on side roads, banks eroded and a lorry or two tipped sideways into ditches cos of soft verges. Lots of abandoned cars with tow trucks and farm tractors working 24/7. There was a young policewoman using her own private car because all the police cars were out already, and standing in the middle of oncoming traffic on A11to warn folk of a broken down car ... she had no blue lights or cones or anything! Fire engines pumping out homes. Have a look at Framlingham on the news websites. I've lived close by there (between Framlingham and Debenham) a lot of my life and went to school there. I've never seen floods like those! https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2023-10-21/big-clean-up-begins-after-storm-babet-hits-suffolk
I’ll tell you all about the kindness of strangers in a bit …
Take care everyone… thinking of @punkdoc and Moira 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A lot of damage here: summerhouse flooded, a lot of soil and plants ripped out of some beds and some of the stone bank of the stream washed away. The house didn’t flood, so I suppose that is the main thing.
Feel a bit despondent, mainly because I am not up to putting things right, but it could be a lot worse.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Crikey, Suffolk had it bad. At least one good thing, @punkdoc's house is OK. I hope someone can help put his garden back after all this. Any local gardeners?
I didn't make a curtain as planned. This morning I sorted photos in the loft, back breaking as you can't stand up in most of it. I brought down 3 bags full . They are now on the dining room table ready to choose which ones we'll hang up in the stairwell.
This afternoon we went to the big plant nursery and bought a silver birch Jaquemontii to replace the one that CB strimmed around and killed.
Sad that Monty's dog Nell has died of cancer.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Awful news from those of you dealing with floods. Hope that when the waters recede you can see a way forward.
Very sad about Nelly (and shocked - she was still so young).
Another October birthday here. Had a lovely day with a gourmet breakfast, followed by a trip to London with Mr C and the Chicklets. Mooched round the V&A ( some stunning embroidery, Beyoncé’s ring and Tina Turner’s shoes were highlights) then mooched around Harrods - equally entertaining (many squeals of “hooooow muuuuch???”). Rounded off by a visit to the Ealing curry house which was our favourite 29 years ago. Still delicious and still going strong.
Won’t be around for a while - although may pop in with postcards of Japanese gardens every now and then 🍁🪷⛩️🚄⛲️🪭💱🇯🇵
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Hope this morning has brought better weather for you and Moira @punkdoc. But your post read like the beginning of a horror novel!
Hopefully @Dovefromabove and Rob are on their way home now.
I was stood down from the shift I was supposed to do at a local exhibition, for which I was mightily relieved as I was convinced no-one would be going out in what we had here yesterday. Framlingham - not too far from where I live on the A12 - was completely cut off, with an acquaintance of mine stuck overnight in another town, fairly near, after her meeting there. Our local FB pages were full of pictures/videos of people driving slowly through deep water and pleas for the best way to get back home from wherever they were.
Having failed to stand the wheelbarrow up (one of those things - oh I must to that...) it is now completely full of water.
Well at least you know what you're dealing with now @Hostafan1, did you try my regime to starve it out? might still help with the crypto too.
Take care everyone… thinking of @punkdoc and Moira 🤞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A lot of damage here: summerhouse flooded, a lot of soil and plants ripped out of some beds and some of the stone bank of the stream washed away. The house didn’t flood, so I suppose that is the main thing.
Feel a bit despondent, mainly because I am not up to putting things right, but it could be a lot worse.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I didn't make a curtain as planned. This morning I sorted photos in the loft, back breaking as you can't stand up in most of it. I brought down 3 bags full . They are now on the dining room table ready to choose which ones we'll hang up in the stairwell.
This afternoon we went to the big plant nursery and bought a silver birch Jaquemontii to replace the one that CB strimmed around and killed.
Sad that Monty's dog Nell has died of cancer.
Take it easy @punkdoc. Hugs to you both.
Day 21 with the trots, but I've not " been " since 11am. Fingers crossed I might be on the mend.
Take care
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Very sad about Nelly (and shocked - she was still so young).
Another October birthday here. Had a lovely day with a gourmet breakfast, followed by a trip to London with Mr C and the Chicklets. Mooched round the V&A ( some stunning embroidery, Beyoncé’s ring and Tina Turner’s shoes were highlights) then mooched around Harrods - equally entertaining (many squeals of “hooooow muuuuch???”). Rounded off by a visit to the Ealing curry house which was our favourite 29 years ago. Still delicious and still going strong.
Won’t be around for a while - although may pop in with postcards of Japanese gardens every now and then 🍁🪷⛩️🚄⛲️🪭💱🇯🇵