As the waters recede…

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environment agency, flood, floodwater, rain, Water

… so the clean-up begins. Thankfully not for us. We have stayed dry throughout this period of flooding. The roads around here have been quite bad although generally passable with care. I’ve been taking the truck to work to guarantee arrival and after Thursday night when I returned home having driven through lashing rain and high winds that scattered branches all over the road and the car, I’ve really begun to bond with the old thing.

The lake has encroached over the bottom part of the lawn a little; I fear the drain at the end (which feeds another lake further along) may be partly restricted, so that will need clearing out. If the weather holds and I’m home in the light for once (so that’ll be about Christmas, then…) I might take a look.

Wartime France through Modern Eyes

This is a tremendously thought-provoking project; France is much as she was during the 40′s and it is quite easy to imagine the Allied Forces et al marching through sleepy market towns.

Addendum

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Ash, Ash Die Back, Chalara Fraxinea, Countryfile, daily mail, diseases, dutch elm disease, trees

Just found out that Ash Die Back does indeed have a scarier, more scientific name.

Chalara Fraxinea. [Source: Mail Online, of all places..].

Actually, it doesn’t sound all that scary now I come to think of it. Compared with the recent fashion for giving children peculiar names, I think it’s quite tame. Chalara will probably turn up on a few school registers in five years time or so. Not sure what Fraxinea would do for a child’s popularity. Chalara, however…  I can see that one.

Not my circus, not my monkey

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not my circus, not my monkney

Oh no, it’s Ash, Dai-bach…*

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Ash, Ash Die Back, Countryfile, disease, dutch elm diseas, Morgan, Morgan Motorcars

Glad to hear that the Ash Die Back disease (which I’m sure deserves a more chilling name) ought not affect the production of Morgan Motorcars which have had ash within their bodywork structure since 1909 and are still made in the traditional way not too far from THBTL.

I’m watching the big old Ash near the lakeside with interest. Hope it’s okay. Perhaps it’s feeling a little unloved (the leaves are dropping now) so I shoudl go and keep it company. Do you think it would like a couple of verses of The Ash Grove? The only  sheet music I have for it is in Welsh though, hence the title.

* With apoligies to my Welsh reader.

Shelfsave Deals

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garage, order, organisation, racking, shelving, tidiness

These look just the thing to reorganise The Garage and get all the junk off the floor. They do a galvanised version too, which I’m sure will help bearing in mind that although we had the roof re-felted, rainwater manages to find its way under the walls…