As anyone who watches the news will know, it’s been unusually stormy here in the westcountry
I was in Devon last week and the rain was indeed biblical, and my plans for several invigorating walks were more or less cancelled.
A friend reported that his garden in the village of Topsham had standing water in it for the first time in the 15 years or so he’s lived there.
I had a train ticket for the return home on Tuesday but the line near Exeter was flooded. Fortunately I was allowed to use it for travel on Wednesday. The Somerset Levels were a near-continuous lake; all very picturesque from a train window, revelling in other people’s misery