RAIN!

RAIN!!!!!

It has poured down and disappeared into the dry ground, the stream is still just a trickle.

Actually it is not a stream but a meeting of field drains which then farmer carefully guided into the top of our plot.

When we came it just soaked into a bog at the far end and then into a ditch alongside the bottom hedge. I dug out a new course for the water and drained it into a pond at the bottom corner - which I also dug out. It has no liner or clay but seems to hold water fairly well. There is a drain around the house which soaks away into the ditch and this also feeds the pond. Then the final backup is the soakaway from the septic tank!!

We have had a heron and mallards in then garden - no doubt looking for our frogs and tadpoles - so they must find something worth visiting.

Tried to mow the lawn today as rain forecast for next few days but the grass was too wet for mulching. I mow a small amount which is more conventional but most is cut with the mower set on mulch. When the grass is wet it just clogs up with clarty green mush. As I do not use selective weedkiller on the lawn it is not a bowling green, more a bit of cut field - all right except for the thistles - not good for bare feet!

There are a few garden images in a set at my Flickr site at www.flickr.com/photos/8662878@N02/