For a lot of, a few years this village had a giant November fifth firework show however usually since I moved right here it has been cancelled and will not be occurring ever once more based on the person planning this years occasion. (For readers from abroad – we have a good time the failure to explode the homes of Parliament within the C16 by have fireworks, bonfires and an effigy of Man Fawkes!)
The sector the place they’re held it’s a college and village enjoying/soccer area and completely waterlogged this 12 months even earlier than the village was flooded and lower off aside from vehicles and tractors once more final Thursday – the second time in two weeks.
So F for Floods. I am grateful that I’ve by no means lived wherever that is flooded though I received a bit nervous in our first October on the smallholding after we had an enormous quantity of rain that sat on the land throughout the home and into our new polytunnel. Colin later dug a trench via the backyard and put in land drains which took the water away and right into a ditch and we by no means had an issue once more. Our 5 acres had ditches all spherical however we had been on the ‘excessive’ level and on the watershed and water ran a method on the entrance of the home down into the Hundred river at Knodishall and by way of a sluice into the ocean at Thorpeness and on the finish of the sphere it ran the opposite method all the way down to Friston and into the Alde.
Ordnance Survey maps are good for following the river course and it is typically odd to search out precisely which method rivers run typically – trying just like the ‘fallacious’ method -and the place they be a part of different rivers.
Floods right here had been passed by Friday morning and other than the mud on the highway and the grass flattened on every verge you would not know there had been a foot of water in two locations alongside the highway.
Backside of my highway when clear
The water is again within the little river correctly
Though issues can be higher if the ditch/river was cleared of grass, nettles and many others additional alongside!
It is beneath there someplace.
Mud reveals the place this different little bit of highway across the nook was additionally a foot deep
Additional alongside this highway above, the river runs beneath one other highway and is sweet and away from particles and working effectively
This “Water Meadow” is normally a area with horses
After I spoke to eldest daughter a few weeks in the past after the primary flood she mentioned ” am I imagining it or after I was little did Dad, me and M – her brother – get caught in some floods between Finningham and Wickham Skeith?” (That was only a few miles from the place we lived then and the place I’m now) “Sure, you probably did” I mentioned, however the place was I that day and the way did they get dwelling? Neither of us had the vaguest thought.
The highway the place they received marooned within the automobile nonetheless will get flooded and was very dangerous once more this time.
Again Tomorrow
Sue
