Cape Town Part Two (2):

For those fans and followers of our Blogs (and I know you're out there) who have been waiting diligently for the final and concluding part of our recent trip to Cape Town, please bare with us awhile longer. There has been a hold up in proceedings and we'd rather wait for the outcome before telling this tale. Something about counting chickens before they hatch ! – so "Part Two: THE PLANS" is still TBC. For now let us entertain you with another picture from Hurley-on-Thames of the Hight Street last week that resembled more a tributary of the river rather than a road. Things are improving, but we are not out of the woods (or rather the water) just yet.

Hurley-under-Water

Ring in the NEW

A Happy NEW Year.... only so far it isn't very new and has a distinct 'déjà vu' feel to it.

Budget cuts, debt crisis, increased train fares and if that's not enough wet blankets there's the weather!

Floods, rainstorms, rivers bursting their banks, more floods! It's been so dramatic the geography and coastline of Southern England has changed forever.

See: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534511/UK-weather-50ft-waves-hit-coast-1-6inches-rain-fall-sodden-ground-today.html

London and the Thames (due to the barrier being closed) has largely been spared, but upstream it's a different story. Our van at Hurley is cut-off, unless you're prepared to wade knee deep through the road that's become, along with the adjoining fields an aquatic habitat more suited to the ducks and swans. 

It's worse than last year (see our January 14th 2013 'déjà vu' entry). And it's not over yet, there's more where this lot came from.

Still we're not as badly off as some folk, judging from the nightly news bulletins.

For the record here's our photographic contribution .... with a few comparisons for you to see the difference.

This is the road.... ! (Our car (the tiny red dot) parked as near as I could get)

The 'Normal' view of the road we take out of the park. (Rainbow effect is occasional)

The scene yesterday. Can you see the Swan floating along in the distance ?

Our usual view from the van (see below)

NEW Lakeside view

And a NEW Water Feature