Gales.

The weather closed in this morning before we could stir ourselves and get out for a walk. I've just pottered around the house, doing a little tidying up. In between rain showers I went and did some work outside. Mainly digging gravel from the stream and dumping it up on the drive at the spot where groundwater is making a bit of a channel. My wood and mud dams are working well up on the road but there is nothing we can do about the water that seeps out of the ground lower down. While I was a digging in the stream I had a chat with my neighbour, mostly about eating too many chocolates and needing to loose some weight. So it's been another quiet day down here in our valley.