Stephen and Therese's voyage to redemption

No buckfast…

More fun and games at home. It is with a certain irony that now completing the work on the guttering to make the house water tight, Therese spots a stream has formed outside the house.

Several days of raining have left the adjacent fields waterlogged. There’s an inevitable runoff towards our place, with around 5 inches of water up against the rear wall.

Therese takes the bucket and moves the water towards our drain. I keep brushing water into the drain. After around thirty minutes in the rain, we’ve managed to drop the level by around an inch. Fortunately this is low enough for us to simultaneously spot a slight incline in the route to the drain … and quickly build a channel.We retreat indoors after an hour in the rain. The channel is working and after another hour, our temporary civil engineering project has proved a success …. the water has drained.