Water, water, everywhere

created Monday 21st July 2025

So at long last we have rain and rain oh and thunder and lightning accompanied by, yes, more rain.

We needed it. Apart from the minimal amount for the last four months or so there really hasn’t been any rain here in North Yorkshire and as the reservoirs are lower than usual we have recently encountered a hosepipe ban.

So over the weekend and today.. “Rain..Rain..Rain”…”Bring it on” I say. But, it’s just so much, far too much in one go. I was looking out over my garden during the daily deluges, which soon flooded over the lawn and onto the adjoining paving with roof guttering unable also to cope with the volumes. I’m really not complaining…. We need a heck of a lot more but it’s a start.

And visiting my customer’s gardens today, the soil was basically dry to touch, yes, puddles in dips along pathways yet lawns and soil borders in a condition that you really wouldn’t have thought such a weekend deluge had taken place!

So usual gardening continued as required without even getting muddy wet! YaY!

now for a cup-of-T