{"id":838,"date":"2010-06-09T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=838"},"modified":"2016-06-24T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:47:12","slug":"those-of-you-with-long-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 9th June 2010 – Those of you with long memories …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… will recall the 11th of September 2008 when I had a whopping 48mm of rain in one day.<\/p>\n

But that was an exceptional case – most of that fell in a brief half-hour period as the result of an incredible storm. Nothing that we have had since has ever come close.<\/p>\n

\"caliburn<\/a>That is, until today. When it rained and rained and rained for the entire day non-stop. This horrible drenching rain that soaks absolutely everything and I don’t think that it’s ever going to stop.<\/p>\n

And when I took the stats at 22:00 as usual I recorded 36.5mm of rain in that 24-hour period. And that’s the most rain that’s fallen here (apart from 11th September 2008) by a country mile.<\/p>\n

My hardstanding has a river running down it right now as water cascades from just about everywhere in the neighbourhood. The whole of the ground is like a sponge.
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Clearly working outside was impossible so after lunch I did some work in the bedroom but knocked off early as it was far too dark to see anything.<\/p>\n

The weather really was that depressing.<\/p>\n

\"fox<\/a>But I did go down the garden to check up on all the plants, and my attention was drawn to some movement in the field.<\/p>\n

We get to see plenty of wildlife here, deer and all that kind of thing. But I never normally have the camera with me. But today I did, quite luckily, and I was able to stand and watch, and reel off a pile of shots as a small fox played “pouncy pussy” with an object in the field.
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\"fox<\/a>So absorbed was it with what it was doing that it didn’t notice me there so I watched, getting soaking wet in the process, as it rounded up and then captured its latest meal. \u00a0 I really don’t know who was the more absorbed, me or the fox. But it was interesting all the same.<\/p>\n

I think that foxes are beautiful and I just don’t know why it is that people want to hunt and kill them. And in my book, huntsmen who dress up in ridiculous garments and set a pack of dogs on an animal like this and tear it to bits as a public spectacle are on roughly the same social level as paedophiles if you ask me.
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I think that they are all thoroughly sick in the head.<\/p>\n

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