Wednesday 28 November 2018

Wet and Miserable.

Since my last post, going on about the damp and gloomy weather, we are currently enduring our fifth day since then, of wet and gloomy weather. It has rained for part of every day and night, sometimes heavily but often light and drizzly and it has been cold. Everywhere and everything seems damp, even indoors when the heating isn't on.
Now I know that I've spent most of the last year or so praying for rain, just as the Librarian is in Germany at the moment, but with any type of weather there comes a time after enduring it endlessly, that you scream enough is enough. One day of blue skies and sunshine would be so uplifting after all this depressing damp but it seems like a dream at the moment.
And the reserve, is it now getting wetter?, well on the surface it is. Walking round is fast becoming hard work in the mud and the splashes of water, especially if one is getting soaked through by the constant rain at the same time. It doesn't bother Ellie my dog though and there she shows her perversity. At home, when it's wet or rainy, she has to be almost shoved out of the door for a pee. She will then go to absurd lengths to avoid walking on the wet lawn and when she finally does, it is by gingerly lifting one foot at a time as though she is walking on hot coals. Take her to a wet and muddy marsh and she'd gambol about on there all day if you let her.
But incredibly, so far, water levels in the ditches and fleets have barely risen, although they look much refreshed. It takes a surprising amount of constantly heavy rain to water-log the marsh after a prolonged dry spell and earlier this year it was only a heavy snow fall, slowly melting, that cured last year's drought.
So, as I sit here looking out at wet roads, wet gardens, a pond that is lapping over on to the lawn and heavy grey skies, I find myself looking very much forward to the Spring.

8 comments:

  1. Pretty much the same over this side of the country, but then it is November. As much as I want to get out and about it's a good time to for reading and some indoor projects.

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  2. We are over 12 inches of rain so far in November, but at least there have been some glorious sunny days interspersed amongst the rainfall. Unfortunately, at least 2 nests of sea turtle eggs were drowned in the long-standing water. Two other nests did have successful hatchings, though, and we await the hatching date for the last 2 nests. Here's to plenty of sunshine with more rain for you.

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  3. That's really bad news about the turtles Wilma, we would like a few glorious sunny days amid the rainy ones.

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  4. 'Fleets' is a word I am unfamiliar with Derek. What are they?

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  5. Basically they are long and very wide ditches Pat, often 50-60 yards wide. Sometimes they are tidal and running inland. Ours on Sheppey used to be tidal but were turned freshwater when new seawalls were built across them several hundred years ago.

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  6. My little bitch behaves in exactly the same way as yours. Derek, when it comes to wet weather. Why, I wonder?

    When it comes to dogs, my black one slinks into view at this time of the year and often does not go away until spring arrives.

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  7. Thanks for your answer Derek - I can add a new word to my vocabulary of water words.

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  8. It is true, after a few wet and grey days in a row we all long for sunlight, even though we know the land needs more water. Just a break would be nice, wouldn't it, or (for me) it could rain all night and then have a few hours of sunshine during the day.

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