Horrendous weather and location

PurBee said:
Just a tad damp where you are then justafestivetrollinadungeon!
Crikey!:eek:

Midgets ears say it all...”er...we’re surely not, are we?” :D
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He's not bothered. He likes running water, he's used to being in up to his neck... He's a bit puzzled as to why we're standing around while I take photos mostly!
 
Well here in W.Yorks, after a wet, misty, drizzly start, we had a fine day with some sunshine. We are on a hill but the fields are still wet:(.

As someone else said, rather this than being in Australia, though. That must be horrendously frightening and if you've been told to stay where you are in a solid building and wait for the worst of the fire to pass, before you go out and try to put out the flames, where the heck do you put your animals, unless you can fit them all in your house?
 
Bright here this morning in Somerset, fields wet but as I have less than normal they are holding up fairly well with just 3 in at night now and 4 still out, I did bring one in for a night of respite which I may regret as he looked at me hopefully yesterday expecting to come in, he is happy enough this morning in the sunshine with more grass than he knows what to do with.
 
Cumbria here, our big problem is that it started raining in July, we had numerous instances of flash flooding in August and September so we went into winter waterlogged. We've had steady rain ever since, our field is doing it's best and the ponies are still out overnight as usual. The farmers have struggled to get on their fields which will have a knock on effect. It's not the wettest winter we've had considering the horrendous flooding we had in 2005, 2009 and 2015 (Carlisle) but it's bad enough. I knew we'd pay for the lovely dry winter we had last year.
 
Looks awful LG, it's like that here too sadly and I still can't drive my normal route to the farm due to the rivers being over the road. I'm hoping by tomorrow morning they will have gone down a bit as it was dry today and is supposed to be dry tonight, I'm fed up of taking lengthy detours!
On the plus side, we finally had a lovely day here and tomorrow looks good too! I've left my two out after four consecutive nights in, so no mucking out tomorrow!!
 
I'm in South Wales & its been horrific, the actual yard itself hasn't been toooooo bad thanks to the sandy soil, yes its bad & very muddy in parts but the amount we've had I'd have expected worse! My main issue is having to drive through floods & avoiding road closures to get in there in the dark after work which is a bit hairy. My youngster in Wiltshire is on clay & if I'd have continued to try putting my foot down off the edge of the concrete hardstand it would have gone over the top of my welly its that deep!!!
 
I'm Dorset - the back of Poole harbour. We are on sandy soil so ground holding up ok just muddy around gateways. But I know a lot of local people are really suffering.
I did offer 1 lady my resting paddock as some rest bite for her ponies a few days ago as she is really struggling.

We've had a relatively dry day today with a bit of wind so hopefully people's land will have dried a little.
 
lol, which bit of cycle path is that :o I know some of the guided bus one is currently damp :p

I actually thought I'm not sure I'd take pics like yours JFTD, I'd be guaranteed to drop my phone!
 
ester said:
lol, which bit of cycle path is that :eek: I know some of the guided bus one is currently damp :p

I actually thought I'm not sure I'd take pics like yours JFTD, I'd be guaranteed to drop my phone!
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Well it is waterproof ;) Might as well test it out a bit!
 
ester said:
lol, which bit of cycle path is that :o I know some of the guided bus one is currently damp :p

I actually thought I'm not sure I'd take pics like yours JFTD, I'd be guaranteed to drop my phone!
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That's the path from Houghton Lock to the Hemmingfords - the alternative route to get across the Ouse is either via St Ives or through Huntingdon and Godmanchester, neither of which were appealing with all the panic shopping traffic on the roads!
 
dorsetladette said:
I'm Dorset - the back of Poole harbour. We are on sandy soil so ground holding up ok just muddy around gateways. But I know a lot of local people are really suffering.
I did offer 1 lady my resting paddock as some rest bite for her ponies a few days ago as she is really struggling.

We've had a relatively dry day today with a bit of wind so hopefully people's land will have dried a little.
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I hope the lady took up your kind offer?
 
Bruce the Spruce said:
That's the path from Houghton Lock to the Hemmingfords - the alternative route to get across the Ouse is either via St Ives or through Huntingdon and Godmanchester, neither of which were appealing with all the panic shopping traffic on the roads!
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Thank you, I did know bits of st ives were struggling but haven't ventured that way, I know the path you mean, I won't make plans to go that way (last time I did I nearly got taken out by a scottie on a flexi lead!)
 
I'm in Shropshire on the the Welsh border and the fields are pretty water logged in places. The weird thing is that it doesn't really feel like we have had masses more rain than usual but the ground is definitely wetter ???
 
Been putting hay out the last few days.

Once the other fence posts are in we'll be letting the 3 neds have 10-ish acres. The foggage is going down very quick whenever whenever we open the paddock up, and the rains are back this week :(
 
I feel like it’s unseasonably warm too- it was 11 today at the yard. 11 and mushy ?

We have buds on some of the more hopeful (naive) trees, and I’ve taken rugs off everyone, including the thin-skinned ancient ISH.
 
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