thwarted by floods

...my image today gives rather a false impression of the weather that we have continued to experience. It is true that, after a sleepless night caused by the rain and storm force winds, we did wake to showers instead of yesterday's continuous downpour. Consequently, we stuck to Plan A and took R for a walk on Rempstone Heath. This is a walk that we do often - in fact the crossbills were photographed in these very Corsican Pines - but each time we have done it in the last couple of weeks, it has been getting wetter and wetter. Last Friday, we had still been able to complete the circular route, albeit by wading through one of the streams. No such luck today. The marsh had flooded and was flowing as a river across the track that serves the farms and oil wells. I had intended to blip an image of some nodding donkeys today but photography isn't officially allowed and there was a large group of oil company personnel surveying the floods, so I was forced to behave myself. Our walk was completed by retracing our steps.

Today's image is of a typical Purbeck forest track, which, because it is on sand and gravel beds, is about the only place where it is possible to walk without sinking into mud and bogs at the moment!

Tomorrow, we will be over in Weymouth...