Water on the brain

Flow flood flush gush gurgle bubble trickle dribble drizzle drip seep surge splash splosh squelch squirt spurt...
Puddle pool pond lake mere marsh swamp quagmire  bog bourne burn brook stream spring ditch dyke rill river torrent

With so much liquid language  who can deny that Britain, like the rest of northern Europe is a watery land? Aqueous imagery informs our speech with a surge of anxiety, a gush of emotion, a trickle of information, a pool of ideas, a wave of sympathy, a current of opinion, a torrent of abuse, a flow of thought.

Where I live on high ground there is no risk of flooding but the fields around are ankle-deep in standing water, the land shimmers with reflected light in brimming ditches, wheel tracks and hoof hollows until, like a saturated sponge, the earth abdicates its ability to absorb.
And still it rains.