FLOOD!!!! (by sarah)
No this time it isn't part of the curse instead it was a bit of bad luck for peeps upstream of us. The dam of their lake broke and a huge surge of water came down the stream that runs through the garden here! This was in the afternoon of the 13th of Jan 2007.
We weren't actually here to witness this but a neighbour took some photos - we were quiet starteled when we saw them!
This is the stone bridge by the water cress pond, there is normally a little statue of a boy called Gilbert residing in here. He was missing after the flood but once the water level went down it turned out he'd just been knocked off his plinth!
Our compost heap is now responsible for phosphate and nitrate contamination of the water courses! Yep thats it half submerged there.
Beleive it or not there is a tunnel that thestream flows through just under the road there - it is completely below the water line meaning water had to have come over the road!
As you can see compared to our little trickle this was something else! Poor Barbara had not long planted out a load of iris and rushes along the stream which all got washed away 🙁
Wed 17th Jan 2007 12:42 am 
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