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Mother Nature in action

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Good morning everyone, as we have flooding and now snow to deal with as I awoke to find we'd had a dusting of snow, pretty as it is I live in a valley in between the river Severn and river Wye so there is seriously flooding just above me and this won't help.

This is the land I bought at the back of me and here's my den with this lone daffodil standing robustly and defiantly in the snow and it cheered me up. I took this photo around 7 am this morning and the snow has already melted.

I feel for everyone affected by the flooding so stay safe folks and at least Spring is literally just around the corner. Mother Nature never stops amazing me.

Jerry ๐Ÿ˜Š

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Thats right and Worcester is under greater threat later when the water runs down stream with the tide. I hope that your daughter is OK.

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How do you add photos to your post?

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Jerry ๐Ÿ˜Š

Lovely piece of land and you'll be able to enjoy all your organic vegetables that you'll lovingly grow Jerry.๐Ÿ˜‹

Mother nature has been battering the UK, Scotland and Wales a lot since the beginning of the Autumn and more to follow tomorrow and Saturday, can the land take much more.

I was on the train on Monday and looked out of the window on the way back home and could see that the fields were no longer, you could see the hedges but the rest was water.

Where I live I Devon we've been very fortunate but near to us they've been building a huge estate which is taking 15 years to build. Its being built on farmland, why oh why do they keep building on natural floodplains!

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Absolutely. Why when there are town centre properties empty and brown field sites.

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Precisely

Hey thanks Alicia, I've already planted some heritage fruit trees but it's wild boar territiory so I will enjoy the fruit blossom and can imagine who will help pick and eat the fruit so a veg patch is a non stater as they can wipe our a ton of turnips in minutes...And as I inherited smashed gates and fenicng the boars now have their own entrance and they like that.

I used to drive down the M5 to Devon to visit my mum and the flood plains in Somerset would be like lakes and we have had an incredible amount of rain. I live on a hill but the ground is still very very wet. And there's flooding in the forest close to me, I was in my car and had already taken 2 diversions when I met a police van towing a boat and I knew it was bad.

Spring is coming as the daylight hours are growing rapidly which I love so I'm optimistic.

As for why do they build on flood plains...the builder doesnt live there...

Jerry ๐Ÿ˜Š

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Ah now I can see the reason for the fruit trees Jerry, they'd have to be like monkeys to rob the trees๐Ÿคฃ

I'm fortunate as well as I also live on a hill but walked down to the beach today with hubby and the stream was a torrent.

I bet the planners that allow the new builds don't live there either. The planning laws are ridiculous.

Let's hope for drier weather soon, Spring month starts on Monday.๐Ÿ˜Š

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Hi Hidden

That is a lovely photo - glad it cheered you up.

Zest :-)

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It was also bracing which woke me up and I like that. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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We had a little dusting too. It slightly melted before freezing again, so my walk to the train felt like taking my life in my hands :D

We've had 2 days with blue skies - it's so lovely! I swear I hadn't seen sky for at least 3 weeks, I forgot what it looked like!

I hate it when it's icy underfoot so feel for you as gravity always wins...๐Ÿ™ƒ We have wonderful blue skies now but...You take care if it's freezing underfoot.

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We had a bit of snow yesterday, if you were quick you could have just about made a snow man. The gardens are beginning to burst into spring and I hope for all your sakes the weather brings more sunshine xxx

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Hi Callyv I think that we are all fed up with the never ending rain, at least the daylight hours are getting noticably longer and as you say Spring is about to burst upon us and the sooner the better methinks. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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