Year: 2020

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Love Island…

Don’t get too excited – I know it’s not PC, but it’s the first thing that sprang to mind.  Subject = Island.  Newer readers may well not get the reference to the vanishing island.  This is the aforementioned when we […]

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River update

This morning at 5.30, the river was three feet above normal.  When we emerge, the first thing, almost sub-consciously, is to listen to the river. One can almost guess the level.  Yesterday it was about eighteen inches, and I took […]

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Happy birthday…

Yes, folks, it’s that time of year again, and I’m taking one for the team as it’s Sandie’s birthday.  It’s the law, I have to be nice to her all day, and boy it’s long. This year it started on […]

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Dennis more

As of dusk last night, both groundwater and river levels had fallen. The river was down to four feet above normal, and still no sign of the island in the middle, and at five feet it should be an enormous […]

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Dennis 3

There’s no traffic on the A470, so it is probably closed northbound, and it is closed southbound at Builth Wells.  Large HGVs are using roads from which they are normally banned.  Here, the groundwater has risen but is static, and […]

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Dennis 2

Dawn broke to reveal a river about eight feet above normal. this is the top step of the seven or eight down to the river. Our marker post which records the water level. Difficult to see, but it’s in the […]

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Dennis 1

A gentle start to Saturday (15th), light winds, light drizzle, light spirits. 24 hours later, after a nine hours or so power cut, cooking by candlelight, both fires roaring away, no major damage by torchlight as of a quick recce […]

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Ciara

She came, she blew, and she drenched, but that was all.  The worst part was the length of the rain element.  Very long, almost 24 hours. And look what turned up at the back gate.  Maybe fifty feet long, two […]

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Found on the dresser

A little reminder of our last daily gather. The scone team on the case!

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A sparkle amid the gloom.

The roadside verge at the top of the track.