This winter has been such a wet one that I’m getting bored with saying “its raining” in English (German is the language in the title). One of the problems of sodden ground is that, with a day of constant rain like today, it quickly reaches capacity. Although the canal remains safely flowing at the end of the garden, albeit on the high side, I’d get wet feet if I tried to pad down the garden in my regular outdoor crocs. The path isn’t completely submerged but there was significant puddling by lunch time and it is probably worse now (we were out this afternoon and not back until after dark).

The rest of the week is expected to be drier but I wonder if the ground will get much chance to dry out before overnight temperatures start dipping toward freezing again?