When Olive met Olive

This entry was irresistible! So, this is the moment when Olive met Olive! And not just any Olive, this is the first Olive we have ever met in Olive's nearly 5 years and guess what... she lives in East Molesey and goes to Olive's school! And what's more...they both like Olive's!!!!!

...can't leave out my little Baxter, he wanted a picture too!

Wettest winter for England and Wales since 1766

"...from mid-December 2013 to mid-February 2014 saw at least 12 major winter storms, and, when considered overall, this was the stormiest period of weather the UK has experienced for at least 20 years." MetOffice

I this period the UK saw 517.6 mm of rain breaking the last record of 485.1 mm in 1995. OK so, it always rains allot in England but I have never before experienced such unprecedented rainfall and storms to hit the South/West of the country and I have never seen the Thames so high in my life. The worst hit was the Somerset Levels which devastated villages and rendered agricultural land completely unusable. The coast particularly Cornwall took a severe battering. Even as I write the flood waters on the Somerset Levels have not completely dispersed and not due to do so until April. The damage has been massive. 

Somerset Levels

Porthleven, Cornwall

Hampton Court Bridge

Usually the river is approx. 6ft lower like in this picture taken after the water level dropped: 

Wolsey Road after Storm

East Molesey cricket pitch

Thames banks burst / Hurst Park