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We had a lot of rain in December. We really needed it. The rain brought the drought level down from exceptional to extreme. Keep in mind that we need to get all our annual rainfall during December through March. Summer rains are negligible here ( Read more... )

We drove to Eastleach in Oxfordshire and walked along the river Leach. It was a very foggy day, as you can see in the photos below.

We started by crossing the river on a clapper bridge, called the Keble bridge. Clapper bridge construction is very simple: you simply place uprights in the river and plop down your flag stones on them. Technically ( Read more... )

Walking from the station to the office in the rain, I came to wonder about this.
Poll BrollyHand

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I'm sitting on Kieron's couch, LJ:ing on his PC. My laptop decided to sulk on Friday. Unfortunately that meant I couldn't work, so I'll have to leave at 2 to go home and put in the 3 hours I was supposed to do on Friday. I felt rather guilty about that, not the least because my PM called me on Friday and said that the client had been frantically ( Read more... )

This has been a rather productive and domestic day. My plan for this weekend was to garden but it's been raining way too much for that. The jungle in my bay window will have to stay there for another week and get even junglier ( Read more... )

Maybe I didn't need that much sun screen after all.

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