We had torrential rain - an assault on our ears thanks to our metal roof - for about 3 hours on Tuesday morning. For those three hours it felt as if we were living under a waterfall … and when the rain slackened it looked as if we were living on an island!

It is rare that it rains so hard for so long. On the positive side, we did collect plenty of lovely clean water for washing our clothes (nicer than our orange well water) but on the negative side the ground is taking its time to soak up all that water, and we even have water rising up into our new bedroom floor - eek!