[plumseverywhere]

How's the rainfall affecting everyone? We've had it quite solidly for a few days now and prior to that some heavy showers so the land is well saturated and each day as I drive the girls to school, I can see the Avon moving faster (and higher!)
Not a good time to live on a steep hill, having to milk goats on the very same hill and sliding about!
How are you all getting on? do you have any localised flooding yet?

[TheCaptain]

I'm a big old softy; everything was kicked out of their repsective stables/barn in March. Everything is now back in because they just looked miserable!!! No flooding as yet but the ground is saturated. Enough already!!!

 

[MAK]

We really needed rain.
After the freeze and snow we had a slow melt followed by dry and hot days. I started planting and had to water seeds and plants and worked in a T shirt.
For about 3 weeks we have had rain or hail every day - we live on top of a hill so no flooding but standing water on the areas we drive or walk over.
For 3 weeks :
I have done no gardening..
I have stopped cutting logs in the woods.
We light a fire every morning and are using lots of logs.
the ducks won't hatch.
chicken are laying less eggs.

On the plus side I have done lots of overdue indoor jobs.

[plumseverywhere]

Definitely did need it! perhaps getting a bit more than we really wanted now though    Am thinking of making use of it today and getting some patio cleaner on the paths that I slip on (algae, yuk) and giving it a good scrub while the rain rinses? Having said that we are already about 3 inches deep on our yard so maybe not 

[MAK]

Rain again.
Ah - just thought of an indoor job ! We get 2 more pigs on Sunday so I can use some of the water from overflowing water stores to wash the stone floor in the pig house. ah - then I can drag the last bail of straw across the barn floor ( it's a raised floor that I need a ladder to get on to). The floor is earth on wood and has a few holes in it and rotten timbers so it should be a fun job.
Will I ever move away from the fire though?

[Fowlman]

Although we have had a lot of rain recently we still need lots more, our local river kennet is still bone dry. Seen sheep sleeping in the river bed last week.

[chairmanphil]

standing water everywhere, apple and plum trees look very happy and the hugelkultur is as happy as larry! river Thames is starting to move quickly though!

[deepinthewoods]

very wet here too, altho yesterday was ok, ive laid a load of grass seed and thats loving it as are my seedlings i put out on monday, i do like planting seedlings in the rain, cos you know theyll settle in well. the rain is definitely affecting my wallet tho, cos i havent been able to lime render which is a bummer.

[bloomer]

in warwickshire currently and the rain has driven us off our site we're working on so am not happy as in the long run every day i can't work here is another day i will have to be away from home :-(

[Mel]

Here too,our little piece is:

[Rosemary]

Goodness - that doesn't look nice 

It's been OK in our little corner of Angus - sunny showers most days. Dry enough to harrow at the weekend and on Monday, but our soil is very freedraining (a mix of loamy sand and sandy loam  ) It was lovely yesterday and I spent it at my desk - today I'm having an outside day, and it's grey overcast and drizzly.

[Small Farmer]

I smiled for the first two weeks of rain, now with all the tanks full and the animals churning up the ground again it's becoming a bit of grind.

But it's the low temperatures that bother me.  Round here a lot of bee colonies are starving because although the rape's out it's too cold for flying.  And the grass isn't growing enough.

[plumseverywhere]

Milking the goats is the hardest part for me as I'm juggling buckets full of (precious!) milk on a slope which is churned up and boggy, I also have to lead my maiden milker through a diddy gate past the nanny and her kid onto the stand, she's stronger than me LOL. I wear a Tesco bag on my bum (cut 2 holes for my legs) to protect myself each time I fall over 

[deepinthewoods]

I wear a Tesco bag on my bum (cut 2 holes for my legs) to protect myself each time I fall over 

PHOTO PLEASE!!!!!

[plumseverywhere]

I wear a Tesco bag on my bum (cut 2 holes for my legs) to protect myself each time I fall over 

PHOTO PLEASE!!!!!

Ah well, you know I would but...I don't seem to have a camera handy    haha - I'm actually thinking of patenting it and selling them