Tuesday, 22 April 2008

More water, gushing rivers and good news

St Alexandre

We were lucky yesterday evening that Jean-Jacques came around to see us at the time when the water had risen to it's highest around the pool. He and Martin, who is working with him this week, immediately set to and diverted the water from the pump and they and Jon then re-routed the water tumbling out of the upper field, across the road and onto our garden. They created a further three waterfalls which tumbled musically for the rest of the evening. We used bricks, an old paddling pool surround and anything else we could find to create miniature dams around the chalet and pool. The pool guys sealed the pump block and we are waiting for it to dry out completely before they come back to commission the pool.




We had been invited out to lunch today and travelling along the river Lot we stopped to take some photographs. The Lot is usually quite a lazy river but this gushing torrent was taking huge tree trunks with it on its way to the Atlantic Ocean. We read in the local news that the Lot, our very small babbling brook the Céou and several other rivers around here are on yellow alert for fear of bursting their banks.

Super good news tonight. Tree surgeon man came round and says he will take our horse chestnut down next week!!!!!

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