Two connected images 8 miles apart. In recent years Julie and I have gone out on Saturday morning for a coffee, or breakfast, or just to read the papers. Usually this is to Cobbs Farm Shop near Hungerford, or Plank's Farm Shop near Devizes. Today it was to the latter. The café is a funny ramshackled sort of a place but that's why we like it. The tables are old cable drums and the café also doubles up as a gift shop. The drive over there however was dramatic as this part of Wiltshire as with many other parts of southern Britain are flooded, serious localised flooding. Every field it seems is waterlogged and any part of the road that is low lying is awash. In fact in this relatively high part of Wiltshire we passed through 2 temporary traffic lights to control traffic through floods. And so after our refreshments we drove back via Silbury Hill near Avebury, which I have now renamed the 'Isle' of Silbury. Quite dramatic in its floodwater moat but there is a more serious side to this in that it should not be in a waterlogged landscape and so as I later learned there are concerns over the stability of the chalk slopes on this 4,000 year old man made hill. I hope this is not an example of human history being eroded by the possible human induced change in the weather.
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