No Swimming...Yet!

 

hi!

 

finally today

the roads north and south have opened

and mr w has just left for work.

 

he works up north, about four hours drive,

until this afternoon the road has been closed in several places
all week 

due to major flooding.

 

thank you so much for all your enquiries about our safety.

we are fine

and apart from a shortage of some food in the local shops,

pretty much unaffected,

though our hearts ache for people having to clean up

for the second time in two years.

 

this was our local swimming pool in the floods two years ago...

 

 

this year the flood was higher
&
the muddy brown water came up to the flags!
{see them stretched across the pool.}

today
i took a drive
&
the main pool was empty and being scrubbed out
but
the toddler's pool was still dirty...

the sun is out again
&

boy!
i miss swimming!

as the flooding waters subside
the land and plants that have been under water
are a dull brown
and technocolour reigns above the floodline!

an army of volunteers, council workers and emergency service personnel
are frantically hosing off roads, buildings and anything else
they can to get the silt and debris cleaned off.

floods stink from rotting vegetation and pollution.

after the last one in 2011...almost exactly two years ago,
there was a smell from the river
kind of like rotting compost...for about a week!

i have been making a collection of pompoms
to bomb my white {christmas} tree.
i've purposefully left it up
in the corner of the lounge room
to twinkle it's way through winter
and make the room cosier.
i think a bombing of pompoms
will make cosy happen beautifully.

i'll show you as soon as i have them up!

take care for now...

naturally Carol xox