20 November 2009

Graham and I are OK and I brought both the ponies back from an outlying field during a lull yesterday(Ruby wanted to do it backwards so she didn't have to face the rain).

Daughter Jen, Rob and 4 yr old Naomi (who's in the middle of a course of chemo for her recently removed kidney tumour) have had to evacuate and move in with us, as they live in the centre of Cockermouth and the house is flooded. They left just as the water started creeping up to the front door - probably 4ft of water in there now.

Seathwaite in the Borrowdale valley has had more than a foot of rain in the last day or so. Scary. I'm so glad I live on a hilltop.

21 November 2009

Rob and Jen's house is at the junction of the rivers Derwent and Cocker (hence Cocker-mouth) though I don't recall ever having mentioned it on here. Where we live at Greenholme, some 50 miles from Cockermouth, we are on a nice little hill above the Birk Beck which meets the Lune about a mile downstream. We get lots of wind and rain, hence very soggy land, but haven't yet been flooded out of the house. At 600 ft above sea level it would need quite a flood to cause us to take to the boats :)

Mr T decided that being stabled was not fun this morning and when I was mucking out he made a run for it (well, a mild amble for it). It has not been a bad day here - very mild and with some sunshine! - so I shut him and Ruby out of the stables and the hay, and let them wander round the tarmac yard; and by afternoon they were hungry and very happy to go back in.