Hello there, and welcome back to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week, posts which are older will be removed from the linky. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked, comment and share some of that love. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here this week we’re pleased you’ve joined us.
I’ve another weather-related post this week, this time relating to Storm Babet which hit us last Friday. It was raining from very early on, and continued to rain the whole day depositing, as we later found out, a month’s worth of rain in a day. The River Trent had flood alerts and the next village along to us, which appears to be relatively used to flooding, flooded. The Riverside pub became very much its name, and its car park became river - but they appeared to be open again the next day. Following the weather, and the various updates became addictive, with it happening so close by, although we weren’t in the flood alert zone. The river peaked at around 2 metres 48, way above the top of its 1 metre 70 normal zone. Thankfully for everyone affected it’s back to 85 centimetres and normal, and the water has receded, though I expect it’s never quite that simple for those directly affected.
For us it meant a change in travel plans; we were due to travel south last Friday but didn’t. Seeing pictures of the A1 flooded made that decision for us and we delayed our journey until the following morning. When we drove alongside the fields just up the road from us, it was quite sobering to see the river flooded the fields and almost up to the road.
My picture this week is of our small Rowan tree, which is looking distinctly autumnal now.
