[Rosemary]

I feel so sorry for all the folk badly affected by the heavy rain and floods.

It's still raining here and it's driving me mad. I can't sleep at all - hence the 2.26am post.

At least 1/3 of our grazing is under water; one hen house must be close to flooding (no idea what I'm going to do with the chooks  and it's just BLOODY MISERABLE.

[mojocafa]

Couldn't agree with you more, I too can't sleep because of the noise on velux windows. However I am up high so squelchy ground rather that flooding

[Bionic]

It must be devasting for those flooded out and so near christmas too.
We have been mopping out the garage but the rest of the place is ok. We live on a fairly steep slope, for which I often complain, but now I am grateful as the rain just runs on down. But its sooo b*&^%y miserable out there.
Is it ever going to stop?
Sally

[Mammyshaz]

It's awful, absolutely torrential again with added gales today. Bought gravel yesterday to try and help with chook run drainage. Even the covered area is wet 

Really feel for you folk who have livestock. I imagine the grazing areas must be a nightmare. Then the worry with outbuildings in these gales.   

 Hope that people's  homes are not flooded   


Bionic, cross posted  sorry to hear about your garage   

[Ina]

It's wild here - never seen it like this. Mud all over the car park bit behind the house - no idea where it came from (water is gone now). And now muddy paw prints all over my desk and keyboard - thanks to cat having been outside this morning! This is getting a bit too close for my liking...

[SallyintNorth]

We've wet in places we've never seen it sit before, but thankfully live in an area that can cope with a lot of wet.  There are fields where you worry about livestock getting stranded though, and I'm nearly out of dryish ground to put hay out for the ponies - who are needing it as all their grass is either under water or sodden, yellow and unnutritious.

I know how lucky we are to just have wet sodden fields and quite a few lakes on the roads, and feel for those who are far worse off 


Today the forecast for us is not more rain but quite a bit of wind, which is great, as the wind will help to dry the ground. 

Gales started around 5am, by 7:20am the porkers were squealing like it was the end of the world.  (If they'd done that yesterday I'd have been proper spooked!  )  Not used to having a draught playing across them, let alone buckets flying around inside the byre, they said, crossly.     Then thought they may as well carry on screaming, even though I'd battened the hatches, in case I was going to give them their breakfast. 

[Ina]

I know how lucky we are to just have wet sodden fields and quite a few lakes on the roads, and feel for those who are far worse off 


Today the forecast for us is not more rain but quite a bit of wind, which is great, as the wind will help to dry the ground. 

You are so right...

I can hear the sea roaring from the house - never had that before, either! Might take a walk down there when there's a bit more light.

[tizaala]

Torrential rain, sodden fields, driveway is just a river of slurry, wind trying to rip us off the hill, just seen a chicken blown off it's feet , all the other animals are inside now . Total missery, so sorry for the folk with flooded houses for Christmas.

[Ina]

Just come back from some "recon"...

Neighbours are all out cleaning the street - covered in red mud. (This soil has come from an area behind our street, which used to be a gentle hill, and has been flattened on top to build more houses - which of course leaves a steep rise, just waiting for erosion... When will planners learn?) I've shovelled soil off my end of the street; but the others have got hoses out and are washing it all down the drains - Argh! I didn't want to say anything - after all, I'm still the new girl on the block - but I really, really don't think it's a good idea to clog up the drains with even more soil than has gone down there already, with more rain forecast... Ah well. Maybe they'll do more street washing tomorrow. 

Fire engine has gone out - Stonehaven (just up the road from here) is on the national news again, houses evacuated etc. River (normally a little burn) is deep red with soil. Lots of people out with cameras to take photos of flooded industrial area; they say last time it was flooded 11 years ago. And I've never seen the sea so angry here.

But personally I've got nothing to complain about. I consider myself lucky.

[deepinthewoods]

serious flooding down here, shelterbox are helping out in st austell. must be bad.

[Ina]

Isn't it unusual that it's so wide spread this time? The entire UK seems to be hit!

[Rosemary]

It's windy here but the sun's peeping through. The fields are awash and the ditches are full almost to the top so there's nowhere for it to run to. Not much rain forecast for the next five days though, 

Real sympathy for those getting it bad;  for a quick improvement.

[jaykay]

It has been horrid    I was awake part of the night too from the noise of the wind wuthering round the corner of the house where my bedroom is.

I really feel for the folk who have been flooded - and got to be thankful, for all my whinging about mud, that that's all I'm having to deal with.

Today is just mizzling and less windy, so that's better.

[sabrina]

paddocks under water, its hard getting the ponies out even for a short time. Feel so much for all those poor people who have their houses flooded.
 

[Mrs Snoodles]

I can't imagine how you guys in the badly hit areas are coping. Big  to you.  We've had our share of rain here in East Anglia but nothing compared to elsewhere.   It is windy but bright and sunny today and I have taken the opportunity to extend the paddocks to let the pigs have some new grazing and give the weaners the option of a non mud/puddle zone.
I am truly thanking my lucky stars that we have the opportunity to do so.
Watching Countryfile the other day and seeing how one farmer was coping the floods was a real eye opener, absolutely desperate.