It’s been raining now almost every day since the beginning of this year. I just looked through the bedroom window and, once again a big lake is forming on the other side of the main road where there should be a field. The village about a mile from us has been flooded several times this winter. Fortunately our village doesn’t flood but unfortunately the lady who runs the shop and post office lives in a village that does so sometimes our village shop is closed because she can’t get here.
Hubby only just managed to drive here from Cardiff this week. The day before yesterday we risked a short drive to see the snowdrops in a local churchyard and the grounds of a local manor house. We didn’t meet any floods but we did meet a big excavator digging a ditch beside the hedge, presumably to allow all of the rain water to run away. It’s a narrow road and we had to wait a while for him to reverse back into a field so that we could go by.
The snowdrops were beautiful. I love them. They are the first sign of spring. It was too wet to walk around the churchyard but worth going just to see them from the car. We drove home a different way to avoid meeting the digger again, up a steep hill from the top of which there is usually a beautiful view of the mountains but all we could see was mist and rain.
On Wednesday Hubby and I went to see Chris and Andrea. It was Andrea’s birthday on Tuesday and some of her family are over on a visit from Argentina and New Zealand. Andrea has 7 siblings, 6 sisters and a brother. Two of her sisters are here from Argentina and a third has come with her husband from New Zealand. We spent the afternoon with them. She has a beautiful family.
Unfortunately the weather has been wet for almost all of their visit but they have still done some sightseeing. They drove to Conway Castle through Snowdonia National Park which is a favourite place of Chris and Andrea’s, and have visited Raglan Castle, Symonds Yat and the Wye Valley and, of course, Hereford cathedral and the Mappa Mundi. I hope the weather clears for them soon.
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