We still have main roads closed. Large sections of some of the main roads were washed away. We're lucky that we live on the top of a hill so any surface water just runs down the slope but people are still on flood alert who live in the centre of town. There is a river that runs close to a lot of houses in town and it is threatening to burst its banks.

It's stopped raining at the moment but the forecast is more heavy rain over the next couple of days.

The trouble is now because it is so wet, when the sun comes out usually in the morning it sucks up all the moisture and by mid to late afternoon we either get thunder and lightning or torrential rain. My garden is overgrown with weeds, my hedge is threatening to take over the front gate, the lawn will end up needing strimmed instead of cut with the lawnmower because we can't get out to do it.

We've had wet summers before but I've never seen one as wet as this.

But what's bothering me most:

I - CAN'T - GET - OUT- WITH - MY - BIKE!!!