I've been chasing around recently with no time to blog or even think straight. It hasn't helped that I've had tooth ache which was eventually dealt with by a rather painful root canal or that the trains I have travelled on have nearly all been late. One (which happened to be early) between Norwich and London looked and smelled as if it had not been cleaned for a month, there was no water in the taps or the toilet and it was a disgrace to National Express. OK, I know they've had financial problems recently but this is a busy line and if they can't present their trains better than that they don't deserve customers.
There, I feel better now I've got that off my chest.
One area I haven't visited is Cumbria. But like everyone else I've seen the pictures of flooding on the news and been appalled. I feel almost guilty that I complained so much about drought earlier in the autumn. For the record we've had just about the right amount of rain now although it has been accompanied by too much wind. But I will stop complaining at this point and express my sincere sympathy for householders and farmers in the affected areas. We have family in Cumbria and thankfully they have missed the worst of the deluge. But others will suffer for months or longer and I feel so sorry for them.