The path beside the Nailbourne

I took J for a walk around the village, to try to continue the good intentions regarding fresh air, and thought she would be interested to see the floods at the bottom of the valley. We walked down Duck Street to the Nailbourne, which continues to flow fast and high. The road was largely blocked by a tanker pumping water up through a pipe inserted into one of the drain covers. I'm not sure whether this was to avoid flooding in the adjacent close of houses beside Water Farm (the name of which would have deterred me from buying one), or whether it's to limit the impact further downstream. The photo shows the footpath, part of the Elham Valley Way, which runs alongside the Nailbourne, and the bottom of the old brick works field. J was struck by the orange flash of the distant willow trees, and the golden light on the hillside. The water has been lying there for several weeks as the level of the water table has risen, and the stream has now risen to about the same height as the water lying in the field, though there's still a bit of raised bank between them. 

Earlier in the day I was pleased that I finally ordered our seed potatoes and onion sets, having managed to find a supplier who at this late date still had supplies of the varieties we wanted, particularly the reliably blight resistant Sarpo Mira. Most of them, however, used to be half the price at Wilko.