Zigs, are you there?

The Daily Express says you're getting flooding again next week but getting a mini-ice age first http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/361765/More-flood-chaos-on-way That pic of theirs looks like Somerset to me

 

Looks like it to me too.

They've got everything in that article. I could write things like that, oh, hang on, I do

 

I've just got back from panick buying puff pastry and toilet rolls. Better get some parsnips out the ground before it's frozen solid, flooded, or both.

 

Update : Floods still rising at the back of us, no news on Muchelney, i'm assuming they are still cut off.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-20575152

 

Being as boats are becoming the only mode of transport for so many of us, how long will it be before George Osbourne sees a money making opportunity and taxes us on their use ? And then there is Mot and insurances to consider !

 

Wouldn't suprise me Jiffy.

Not getting any better down here,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20829807

The floods went down a bit but are now nearly as high again as when this thread was started.

The submerged grass will be dead now and i'll be suprised if any of the hedges that aren't willow make it thru.

Then will come the stench as all the vegetation rots.

 

When I first took on my land, a field drain was blocked which caused a stretch of the mostly hawthorn hedge along part of my boundary to end up sitting in sloppy messy totally waterlogged ground. We don't know how long it had been like that but my dad reckons probably a good while.

We sorted the immediate problem, and then gave it a couple of weeks to dry a bit. Then we had a go at the hedge.

A few of the trees were dead. I could literally just lift them out of the ground, leaving their rotten roots behind. Many more of them were looking quite sickly. We removed the dead ones, and gave the surviving ones a severe hair cut and then just hoped for the best. Now, a couple or so years later, its a good healthy hedge. It still needs to thicken up a bit more but the point is its not lost.

I know its a different situation. In my case it was only the roots that were waterlogged, and not the top side too. I just think it might hint that there is some hope for the hedgerows in flooded areas.

 

Thats encouraging The hedge i've been watching from the house has been completely submerged except for one tree (the one with the weasles clinging to it)

Could see the top of it a few days back, now its going under again.

 

Out side it's flooded for the 5th time this year and every year before that, local flooding due to the landowners not digging any ditches 25 years +, even when they have there own diggers , but this may change, as one landowners house was close to being flooded last night