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re the M5 situation,

my brother,his wife and two kids have been stuck on here all night :o

they are trying to get to Dorset ./ shades x

Glosterwomble, will you be having breakfast at Ceci Paola ?taking in  the Seeds of Italy display!

I wish I had time to have breakfast at Ceci Paolo! But I did buy some seeds from there earlier in the year.

I hope that you get home ok today.  Let us know how you get on..

We were driving back from Sussex. We left our son's (near Eastbourne) at about 9.30ish and within a couple of miles the heavens opened! We've never seen such rain! The roads through Ashdown Forest & the Weald were like rivers, because the drains couldn't cope and flood-water was gushing in from the fields. Luckily, our car is fairly high (NOT a 4x4!) so it coped, but things were very sticky quite a few times. And the noise! We were shouting at each other to make ourselves heard, while the poor dogs cowered in the back.

The M25 was solid from Gatwick to the M4 because of the flooding, but at least we were moving slowly and everyone was disciplined (resigned??). We got home just before 1.30 (in glorious sunshine, of course!) The journey normally takes 2 hours!

And looking at the photos today I realise we were among the lucky ones, although it didn't feel like it at the time!

4" here yesterday. Can't get into our local village.
Friend in our village had her cellar flooded. We lent her our butt pump - bought for drought periods!!

Well I did finally get back to my home in Gloucester yesterday afternoon but today we are told that we are going to be without running water or electricity very soon. Rather ironic that we have all this water lying around and we will have our water supply cut off!!  :'(  All to do with power plants and water pumping stations getting flooded. C'est la vie!

According to Metcheck we're due about an inch of rain today. It's throwing it down again; I just hope we're not in for flood no. 3.

We are without water, but with all this rain today at least the water butts will be filling up!
I think those that are at risk today are already flooded, and that it can't get worse than it aready is (fingers crossed) can it?

its blowing a gale here and raining so i cant get to the plot.

Localy we have so far all escaped the flooding as the rivers have not breached the flood defences.

Fingers crossed we will all see some dryer weather soon :-)

No rain yet in my part of Essex today, but it is forecast.  Blowing  a gale so I am tempted to put my sheets on the line and keep an eye on things.  The garden is begining to look like a tropcial rain forrest, everything is so lush.  I wish the sun would shine.  :'(

Drizzle on and off most of today but now it is chucking it down.

Been basking in glorious sunshine all day here so far.Not a cloud in the sky.

and i tell more lies than Billy  ;D

lorna sounds like you have the same weather here, came out of friends place having got my long hand shears sharpened and the rain was comming from all directions bizzare!!

Feeling a little guilty as i had met people up on the allotment who had been working in the high winds and had promised to head back with a pot of tea but i cant imagine that they stayed up there in this weather. Just hope there not waiting for me!!

This was Bourton last Friday.

http://www.pcplanets.com/videoyoutube-Bourton-under-Water.XewCgo9uBHI.shtml

Paid to fish in a place for trout in Bourton some years ago.

You had to buy anything you caught.

I reckon I caught the biggest trout ever,cost me £28.

My wife has never let me live it down.