Water, Water, Everywhere . . .

Got up today to more rain (after a pretty wet day yesterday), not for too long though as the blue skies pushed their way through. I don't think one breezy sunny afternoon is going to do much to dry us out though - with more rain on the way next week.

The university playing fields in town were a veritable lake when we drove past them earlier - and then we discovered that we had a lake of our own (well relatively speaking!).

A small pond had formed at the bottom of the garden, where water drains in from the field behind us, and hopefully drains out through a pipe into the field next door. Martin got the drain rods out and we soon heard the water gushing away, so we're back to a soggy puddle now.

The garden itself isn't too far off achieving lake status of its own though - a good half of it is so waterlogged that it's actually pooling at the bottom of the path leading up to the wood 'shed'.

Drainage strategies are already under consideration . . .