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Today was another wet one. The New Forest is so waterlogged as to promote empathy for those unfortunates who chose to come here for the Easter holidays.
Lymington Plant Centre has clearly seen better days. Perhaps the daffodils that line Pitmore Road outside it had once come from stock.
Roads and paths were reduced to watercourses; bedraggled horses churned up mud to droop at their hay troughs; cattle grids overflowed.
Armstrong Lane in Brockenhurst was just one flooded thoroughfare. Trees were reflected in the normally dry terrain on the other side of Burley Road.
Their mirrors joined up with the River Weir and another stream to swell the fast flowing water across the ford.
Jackie took one look at two boys cycling through the torrent and decided to turn the Modus around and find another route.
She waited whilst I photographed other ambitious drivers,
then drove on the the aptly named Waters Green over which a raucus jackdaw chorus performed for the benefit of soggy ponies, one of whom still sported its curlers.
A fine looking chestnut was occupied clipping a hedge.
This evening we dined once more on Jackie’s splendid lamb biriani with black lentil dhal. I consumed more of the 16 Little Black Pigs.
I think we’ve had it better than you this easter holiday, Derrick. I certainly can’t compete with those waterlogged scenes!
🙂 Many thanks, Sandra
My goodness, what an incredible amount of water. But really super, inspirational photos 😀
Thanks very much, Sarah. That is certainly a benefit of it.
Oh my word…enough already! I guess it’s good if you own a canoe. 🚣♀️
Many thanks, Jill. It is pretty waterlogged
That is a lot of water! You might need to start work on your ark…….
Thanks very much, Pauline. I am reading Schindler’s Ark at the moment!
Ha-ha – an excellent book!
It is, indeed
The weather should change soon. I must admit, though, it certainly has been a rather wet spell!
Many thanks, John
Well it certainly was a wet morning, we still got out on the ponies for a ride on the forest, came back very muddy. Great to see the photo of the old’ Tinleys ‘nursery, it would be nice to see it turned into something useful one day?…. now I am going to take a bet and say that cattle grid is the one at the bottom of the Shirley Holms rd, and the muddy lane is jealous lane….just off to the right of the cattle grid photo in fact? A little lane I don’t recommend driving down, it’s really bad at the moment, if you walked just a little further along you would see the fields and lane is flooded, eeek!
Many thanks, Rebecca. So the Plant Centre was Tinleys? We have only been living in the forest for 6 years. You are right about the cattle grid. We featured Jealous Lane two days ago https://derrickjknight.com/2018/03/31/a-regatta/ was this the other end of it?
Same in Lincolnshire, I have had to empty my water butt three times today!
Thanks a lot, Andrew
We’ve had quite enough now. I am evolving webbed feet.
What do you expect – you are a duck, innit? Many thanks, Jessica.
Some ducks have to make do with a prong into the ground. Which is in grave danger of rusting away..
🙂
That is a lot of water Derrick.
Sure is, Andrew. Many thanks
So much water! This morning we woke to snow, then it was sunny, then a snow storm and now its blue skies!
Similar changeability all over, it seems, Lynn. Many thanks
You put those puddles to good use, Derrick. 🙂
Many thanks, Mary. I try never to look a gift horse in the mouth
Love the cyclists & the splashes. Did you ask Mr. red-shirt-blue-shorts to ride through a second time, or did he just so it on his own?
“do it”
They both just did it. Struggled a bit. I took these through the windscreen before I disembarked. Thanks a lot, Jodie
: ) I think I remember a past post when you requested repeat performances from the bikers. . . is that right?
Quite right, Jodie. Well remembered. This time the boys needed no encouragement, although they did have quite an audience. Many thanks.
Ours came down as fluffy white stuff this morning … Mistress Spring is full of … erm … let’s go with ‘surprises, at the moment, isn’t she? 😀
Sure is. Are you better? Thanks a lot
Yep … the antibioticals worked like a charm … I’m rather reticent to chew too hard on the left side of my teeth, but I’m sure that’ll pass. 🙂
Wow… Every picture speaks out many stories. Awesome narration and pictures. Really good. Keep writing.
Very many thanks, Shreya
Wish you a few days of sun .You deserve it.
Many thanks, Sylvie. Not our for another week or so. Some places are still having snow
My word, Derrick, you do seem to be suffering down there in the New Forest. What a lovely place to suffer in though. Great pictures.
Thanks a lot, Roland. A photographer can’t suffer 🙂
Wet, wet, wet. Here the sun is not showing but it is not raining.
Thanks very much, Arlene
I wish we had that much water over here. Beautiful photography of the water features and of the horses!
Many thanks, Geetha. You are welcome to some of it 🙂 Seriously, I wish you had more
🙂
It is rainy here, too, but not quite so waterlogged. Beautiful photos. The horses in the first set look so miserable, but the others seem content trimming the hedges and nibbling the grass. I like the jackdaws.
Thanks very much. Merril. I think there’s a lesson there about fending for oneself. Well spotted
Water, water everywhere! Those bikers are much braver than I am.
They did struggle a bit, Laurie. Thanks very much
Till I found my way to the sprightly chestnut fellow, ‘bedraggled’ seemed to be the theme of the day.
🙂 Many thanks, Uma
Lovely reflections.
Many thanks, Rupali
Oh my goodness you did get some rain! Here that’s called “liquid sunshine” because everyone is under the assumption that Florida is always sunny.
Thank you very much, Lisa, for all the reading and commenting
I think we will all float away soon! I think the chestnut is enjoying the sweet forsythia flowers.
Thanks very much Clare. The pony certainly tore at the stems
I apologise for two ‘I thinks’!
OK for dramatic effect 🙂
Hehe!
That is quite a bit of rain, and flooding! It hasn’t been that bad here, not yet. We can get storms where gopher holes spout water like artesian wells.
We’ve had a lot more today, Lavinia, but we have 2 dry days coming up. Thanks very much
Things look decidedly soggy. We never get such interesting hedge clippers over here.
Thanks very much, LL/PS – they do a good job on lawns, too 🙂
The great part of rain is it brings such lovely new greens out of all the foliage, Derrick.
I love the ponies and donkeys, whenever you capture them! ❤️
You are so right about the greens, Robin. Thank you very much
You’re so welcome, Derrick. Have a wonderful week and hope it is 🌞!