1. All across Yorkshire & Lancashire, there is major flooding including up and down river from us. The worst happened in darkness and it’s only with the light of a bright day that we truly see the extent of it. The lower main road near our old house in Leeds (and one of our main routes into the city now) is a river, and the junction we used nearly every day back then is beyond waist deep. It’s terrible but on a sunny day, beautiful too: the blue sky and arches of the railway bridge mirrored on the ground.
1b. We become looky-loos closer to home on our usual dog walk – the river banks collapsed at the bottom of the hill, flooding gardens, playing fields, a pub and the road. It’s receded from the road by the afternoon but we – and the dozens of other people out taking pictures – are still largely surrounded by lakes of standing water on either side of the carriageway. The river is twice its regular width and carrying logs – and even an old fridge – as it rushes by beneath us.
2. I swap the dining room curtains from regular little curtain hooks to the long Ikea ones – they hold the tape so much straighter. This is strangely pleasing!
3. The mist makes sparkles in the torch light, draws lines in the cold blue security light across our neighbours’ deck.
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