Good Afternoon from Sawrey........The village was hit by freak weather and a flash flood yesterday and after the most amazing golf ball size hail stones at around 3pm came the rain,within minutes raging torrents were flooding down the roads and the shop got completely flooded out. Chris next door who was giving a Banjo lesson at the time did some of his finest multi tasking and left his student to come here and pile up the sand bags, but to no avail as the rain was so powerful and it completely flooded the top and the bottom of the shop and two houses accross the road fromt he shop...........phew what a nightmare!!!! The people in the holiday cottage accross the road helped out and could not believe their eyes, neither could I!!!!! It was truly like a scene out of a Benny Hill Movie!!!! I kept expecting some music to pipe up at any moment :-)

Finally today we are all cleared up and just as I was about to have a sit down I heard a most almighty bang and went outside to see a aggregate truck racing down the road having taken out a massive rock and the sewege pipe from the holiday cottage across the road, still traumatised from yesterday the holiday makers came out, I did my finest impression of a reasurring shop keeper and told him its usually quiet in the country....he didnt look like he believed me !!!!

Well thats about all for now folks, enjoy the sunshin and if you hear thunder, get out the sand bags quick! :-)