Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

It is the First of May and the blossom is out. But on this 1st May, the international distress signal is appropriate - we have been having torrential rain for a month, rather than the regular showers we can expect in April.

I have started building an ark.

I bet you didn't know that Mayday! comes from the French, venez m'aider - come to help me...