Rural Life

 There hasn't been much rural life on this blog for a long time.

 It looks lovely . . .

 . . .a duck pond or a fishing loch?

 No, it's a big puddle at the bottom of the field and it's leaked on to the road in front of our houses. The rain stopped some time after 4 am today and the level in these pix is much lower than it was during the night and early morning. 

This is a load of road crush to contain the water nearer the field and away from the houses.

You can see the road today,

which you couldn't have done yesterday afternoon or at 4am today,

 so we are pumping some of the water down past my garden on the gable end. 

I hope it goes past and doesn't run back to the conservatory, as it was doing when the rain was at its heaviest.

 Fingers crossed and thanks to Stuart and Sandy Breckenridge for road crush and 'irrigation services', Carl and Leah for labouring and Angus Council Roads dept for delivering sandbags on Friday and late Saturday night - in the rain!