OK… so crossing fingers didn’t work!…
The water came up too high behind the galleries that it had to come out somewhere, so it decided to spring out of the drain, bringing with it a rather large quantity of…. human waste! So, despite the photograph above looking quite picturesque, it doesn’t really show the full picture!
The water did rise to within in inches of coming into the galleries, but stopped just short, thank goodness…. clearing up the garden was bad enough!
Here are a couple more photographs of the high water in town and behind us in the Country Park. The sign at the Swan Hotel amused us, saying book now for Christmas while the waters around rose higher and higher. Things are now back to normal (as normal as it gets down here anyway!) and we’re all ready for the Christmas rush…