I always write every other day but nothing has happened recently? Well I walked, in the rain this morning to Lidl and bought food - fruit, vegetables and the Halloumi fries which are delicious. More fish, I made fish gougons the other day which worked well.
My walk always takes me along the canal side, all the canal boats seemed to have come home to overwinter and there is a continuous line of them on the far side. The trees are still green, not much orange or red around. The other day I saw flooding from a river somewhere by Keswick (Seatoller Farm) The poor woman who had taken the video was in tears after she had tried to save some lambs being swept off by the river - she failed.
The rain has finally arrived and we are thinking how to fix shelves down in the basement for my stuff in boxes. It has to be high up, as you cannot know when the basement will get flooded. Looks like we shall have to do it ourselves, as so-called builders have not come back to quote on the job. I think garage shelving, we could weigh them down with bricks and just use the top shelving. I see the water board are also fixing rubber electronic gadgets to some peoples drainage to check if there is a sewage outfall when the floods come.
In actual fact the area is surrounded by many trees to stop the water flash flooding down the hills, and there is even volunteer work to open up old streams and slow them downhill.
I read about the lambs drowning in The Times a couple of days ago. Very distressing for the lady they belonged to.
ReplyDeleteThey have started a petition against the Water people Pat, apparently their farm wasn't on the flood warning scheme, sad photo of a dead lamb hanging from the branches of a tree as well. The better news is that they had sheep higher up that escaped the flooding.
DeleteDoes your home have an attic? Maybe creating storage up there would be safer? Does it flood often?
ReplyDeleteYes it does Ellen but already turned into two attic bedrooms, so no space up there. I often wonder if these houses flooded when they were first built, late 19th century. The basement has hooks and things for storage and coal house as well, or whether flooding has occurred because of roads, etc.
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