RAIN ALL DAY ...

Yesterday, I wrote about "Despite the winter freeze." All change today, lots of rain again!

Flood warnings have been in place for the more coastal areas of Wales, maybe we can count ourselves lucky in that living halfway up a mountain, the water tends (thanks to gravity) flow past us and down to the Afon Ebbw which, no doubt at the moment is burbling with all the extra input gathering at the bottom of the valley and flowing seawards. Needless to say, it was not a good day to be out and about and things I had planned to do were put on hold. The skies were dark and drizzmal, just like last year.

But it wasn't just the fact that it was raining, it was still feeling incredibly chilly today. The skies grim and varying shades of grey. My get up and go, got up and stayed safely indoors.

So these are scenes from this time last year.

At least last year we had a vague sight of the sun ... not so today, it was just very wet and not even a glimpse of that large golden orb as the sky emptied it's clouds down upon us.

But compared to the weather in the north of U.K we were lucky because they had snow.

Yes, it's approaching Christmas and no doubt for the kids it's been a bit of fun, that's part of the problem of being "grown up" we tend to see things rather differently.

And of course for our farmers locally, life is endlessly tedious.

The in-bye fields are full of dripping wet sheep and rain sodden rams not to mention all the extra feed needed to keep the flock in the best of condition at this important time of year.

Next years ram, ewe and lamb sales depend upon what happens now!
And now ... like the rest of this last year is just mostly different forms of water.