Has this been the wettest start to a New Year? Not sure. What I am sure it must be up there in the top 10. I am sure that this is wettest start to a New year that I can remember. We are used to the local park flooding as this is what a floodplain does. This is no comfort for anyone who lives on the floodplain or tries to travel across the flooded area. But we all have to adapt to the actual circumstances of our lives rather than just try and pretend the water isn’t there and then complain when things flood.

What is really unusual is that there is a new shallow lake that has been formed through the whole of the Soar Valley that wasn’t there just a few days ago. The good news is that it hasn’t rained for 24 hours and the water is starting to drain away. The bad news is that the land is so saturated it will take weeks of dry weather to really see the back of the temporary lake. The winters in Britain are notorious for their long dry spells (haha) so I guess the land will be saturated for the rest of the winter – we might have to start to think of a name for the temporary lake – Lear’s Lake?.