the rain seems to have arrived - hope i'm not putting the jinx on it by posting this - we've woken up two mornings in a row to the patter of rain, bullfrogs appearing as if by magic in the puddles, trees are starting to come into leaf and green shoots appearing. the rain has been localised but we've had a little bit everywhere and a lot in some places. if we've had an average of 20mm all over then given that 1 cubic metre of water weighs 1 ton and 1 hectare is 10 thousand square meters then 10 mm of rain is 100 tons water / hectare thus 20 mm = 200 tons / ha x 30 000 hectares = 6 million tons of water which seems a lot more than 20 mm !!! sure is a lot of clouds full.
saw three knob billed geese at the hippo pool - never seen them here before.
christmas is coming and given the bird flu in the UK a turkey shortage is predicted, we may have to settle for knob billed goose, could be a new fad.
lara is on her way home - exams done and dusted, school now history - we're all excited and can't wait to see her again - arrives on the bus tomorrow.
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We have more rain than we can handle. Our bullfrogs are drowning.
Hope you get some of ours'. We do not however get ellies to destroy our fences. Lucky buggers.
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