Raining!

 What do you do when it rains and rains and rains?  We are always sorry when we see news reports, that people's homes are flooded, it must be awful.  Perhaps I should be more grateful that we have those steps to get into our lounge at the back and there's a step up into our front door. So not easy for water to leak into our home, although a couple of nights ago we were up at 3:00am checking outside, because the rain was torrential and our gutters were over flowing.  We'd had them cleaned a short while ago, so no problems with them, but it was frightening to see the water overflowing out of them like a waterfall, the rain was so heavy.

We were the only people looking out of our front door, just checking we were alright. Perhaps everybody else was sleeping through it, although it was so loud we were woken by it. Dh closed our fanlight window just to make sure no water came in.

Then we had tea and toast and read for a while sitting in our arm chairs.. we didn't go back to bed till 5 when the rain had lessened and I slept till 9.. so didn't feel too bad the next day.

And it did stop late morning for a short while and we had some sunshine. I walked around the garden checking the plants, a chrysanthemum needed a stake, but everything else was fine.  Although our lawn was covered with  leaves and the keys from the Sycamore trees that grow along the drive way of St Clares, the private school about 70 yds from our property. They sprout and grow every where and Mountain Ash trees, even in the middle of our hedges. We had a warming lamb broth for lunch and then the rain came back and so we read our books.. Dh has read more books than he usually does this year and I have just finished my 58th..But mid afternoon we decided to drive to the sea front and have an ice cream and we did and it was lovely.

Booths is one of the pavement kiosks and the ice cream is from Marsh Farms, Welsh and its lush! 

Friday, yesterday, it was a gloriously sunshiny day and in the afternoon, Dh planted some Brussel Sprout plants. They will be grown by Christmas 2025! So nicely covered with an environmesh to protect against the Cabbage White butterfly and surrounded by bio slug pellets. Garlic will go in tomorrow.... All our other veg is now finished, just some carrots and we do have grapes still ripening.  We've had another bumper crop of tomatoes, which have been delicious. 

There's always something to do in a garden and the heavy rain has watered in the new plants!! Well actually practically washed them away!

So what do you do when it rains and rains and rains?

Chrisxx