T’was rather mild yesterday…
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I think we’re about to get a right kicking 
I guess it’s somewhere near our place now. I won’t be home for another 4+ hours and will probably miss it 
What was it before Neptune decided he needed target practice?
Great photo 
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Proper anvil!
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Looks like one of the navigation markers in Southampton Water, complete with burning electric lamp by the look of it!
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Looks like someone left their cat basket on the platform
Turned out Nile* again
*OK, slight exaggeration, but the rain has been running down my street since before sun-up and must be responsible for the thin strip of luxuriant vegetation in the gutter, no ?
This is when I’m glad I don’t live on the estates north of the railway line. Thames valley floor. Good luck for the rest of this week, and next if BBC Weather is to be believed.
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Definitely go down that ladder 
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You need to have a word with the Union about your break facilities mate…
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By which you mean Oxford, which currently has a big emphasis on the ford bit?
Winner of “Didcot in Bloom” for the last three years.
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That’s the flagship; the height of sybaritic luxury! 
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I’d hoped Oxford would get away with it as the Thames itself is not running particularly high right now. But pictures here Oxfordshire flooding: Dramatic photos show wet scenes | Herald Series show a few wet spots.
Didcot’s Willowbrook (clue is in the name) development and the few occupied houses on the new Nobel Park are on the valley floor. They’re far enough from the river that gravity-driven drainage down the narrow and sometimes weed-choked Moor Ditch and its tributaries won’t be fast.
When the Willowbrook construction was going on I did see them digging great big rainwater ponds and soakaways (?) and some at least of the apartment blocks stand on their own raised mounds. So the builders were obviously aware that in the winter the fields there could be under 6-12" of standing water for weeks at a time (guess how I know this).
Fingers crossed eh …
Including the insides of some of the schools I work with.