Where's Noah?

Heavy rain all last night. And we have been having rain on and off since it snowed about 3 weeks ago. So the ground has been accumulating more and more water. We think that, because the ground is quite stoney on the side of the hills, the water runs off readily, and this was very evident today! The little valley of the river Ceou collects all of the run-off from our hills and we were amazed to see how quickly this water drains off into the river.

Sue and I went out to take the photos just as a mass of cloud moved off and we had a 'sunny interlude'! The 'lake' you can see is our neighbour Nadine's field. The downward run of water has been blocked by the road and there are a number of these collections of rain run-off to be seen around us. Fortunately, being just on the start of the hill side we are not in any danger of flooding, but we are told that the valley bottom has flooded in the past, quite seriously.

Needless to say this has made the ground very soggy, and we think that it will take a week or so before we can resume with the landscaping. Just going to have to make sure that the wine in the winecellar is still OK!