As many of you may know there have been some horrific flooding problems in the Uk this year and the latest lot that is just resolving now affected my family by drowning their water treatment plant and so they were without water for a week - seemed much longer I promise!!!

We were scheduled to go on holiday down there, so armed with baby wipes and so few toiletries (water supplies not permitting) that we had an almost empty bag we headed off for a couple of nights.  We had great fun entering into the 'british war-time spirit' of comraderie that blossomed in this difficult time.  But it was kinda fun filling up at the bowsers - when there was water in them!!

And because it persisted in raining - regardless of the prayers for it to stop (well, it is all stopped now for a few days) we got the paddling pool out and managed to get enough from what filled up in it to flush the loo one time.    It was hard when we ran out of water though to go,knowing we couldnt flush it away. 

Having said that you can see E had a great time swimming in what was there and trying not to splash out any precious drops.  Right now water is back on, (praise God - no more queueing and searching for bowsers) and should be clean for drinking soon, but in the meantime people still need to drink/prepare meals from bottles.  Many homes are still terribly damaged and those people have the rest of the year in which they will be sorting it out waiting for it to dry and trying to get back to some kind of stability and normality in their lives.

The area worst flooded was where we first moved to when we came to the UK.  Great devastation and incredible pictures of the Abbey that became an island - almost like a safe haven, that once upon a time it must have been.
Peace
EF.x