Anyone else drowning?

[smartie]

We've had over 3 inches of rain in the last 24 hours - might be as much as 4 inches. I can't tell exactly as the home made rain gauge overflowed in the night Given that our average yearly rainfall in this area is 24 inches it's probably not suprising that the pond too has overflowed and part of the patio is underwater.

This morning I saw the wettest, most bedraggled and miserable magpie I've ever seen. He looked as if he'd been swimming and didn't enjoy it. The blue tits and squirrels aren't in much better shape, poor things.

Anyone got any sandbags?

[mrs fish]

Yes it is flooding here

At least this is real bank holiday weather not like may day when we had freak sunshine

I don't know how I found this thread but I did

[jennyb]

Awful here, too. The (big) baby blackbirds have been sheltering underneath my car.

Jenny

[JeffH]

Same here - my pond levels have risen by at least 2 inches since yesterday and I've been watching some very bedraggled looking adult Robins and Blue Tits feeding their equally bedgraggled looking youngsters.

A couple of the fledgling Blue Tits have cleverly found themselves some shelter in some ivy covered trellis immediately above our patio doors with Mum and Dad flying in food supplies from one of our nearby feeding stations.

I do hope these youngsters manage to survive this period of cold wet weather

Jeff

[Stewy]

Was hoping for a BBQ today but somehow I doubt that will go ahead

[C C]

We had it bad yesterday, high winds with rain. Today, it nice and sunny
Unable to get out and enjoy the day.... refitting and painting the kitchen

Christian

[Ann2]

Barbecue eh? Guess you didn't hear the forecast.

It's been raining non stop here since I got up yesterday morning.

Ann

[galanthus]

Same here :-( really bad weather yesterday, full sunshine today and we are dismantling our kitchen ready to have roof removed tomoz. Was very excited as saw my first tadpole with four legs, bloke sulking tho as I wasn't helping so i reluctantly came in :-(

[thwick in 'ead]

Rain, hail, sun and cloud today, feels really autumnal. What happened to this global warming?!!!

[Pete W]

Well it has been raining for 48hrs now here in Sawbridgeworth and we have had 5 inches of rain (according to my bucket). Still raining now as I type... BH weekend has been a washout... It will be nice tommoz as I am back at work .....

[smartie]

Yip, the best I can say here is that it isn't raining quite so hard now as it was earlier. Still no letup, so the garden planting and tending (which we enjoy) has been replaced with paper sorting, filing and shredding - nobody's favourite job and we're only just speaking....

[jennyb]

Spare a thought for those unfortunate creatures who had to brave the elements this weekend



Perhaps we should change the saying "drowned rat" to "drowned pheasant"?

Jenny

[Pete W]

Originally Posted by jennyb

Spare a thought for those unfortunate creatures who had to brave the elements this weekend



Perhaps we should change the saying "drowned rat" to "drowned pheasant"?

Jenny

Poor Thing

Should look like this

[kaz]

I don't want to be lynched but we have had a wonderful day today - blue sky and breezy - dried 3 loads of washing on the line and went for a walk to a place called Uwcmynydd in North Wales - it was so clear that we could see Ireland
(It did rain on Saturday but not much)

[Garden Carpet]

It hasnt stopped raining here since the day after I came back from Spain. I have four dogs who are tracking wet muddy furry bodies around the house (two are lodgers for the week) Please Sir, can I go back to Spain, I promise I will try to learn the language
jaki

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

It hasnt stopped raining here since the day after I came back from Spain. I have four dogs who are tracking wet muddy furry bodies around the house (two are lodgers for the week) Please Sir, can I go back to Spain, I promise I will try to learn the language
jaki

You may return on condition you come straight back and you bring some of that sunshine back with you !!!!

[buzfuz8149]

We had a cold day yesterday but very little rain, today it was an overcoat warmer and the sun has been out all morning, the clouds keep drifting over but there is still plenty of blue sky up here in Lancashire.

Carol.