Flood!

For once, the weather warnings in place for today were accurate and we've had heavy rain all day. I was busy at work and the time flew by in a blur of emails! I was just walking out of the office to meet Keith when he called me to say that Holcot was flooded, with several cars stranded in the water, so he'd been held up.

I went back into the office to wait but went out again at 4.15pm to see him enter the car park. Abbie had sent me a couple of photographs from their evening out in Vietnam, and the array of Belgian beers they could choose from! How surreal! I told her the weather was atrocious and she'd already heard from her Mum who lives in town. We have flood warnings out for several areas of the county and as I looked out onto the sodden car park, I could understand why! 

Keith and I decided to drive home via Moulton Park and Brixworth rather than the busy A43, but it turned out to be the wrong decision! We managed to get through Moulton Park but the traffic ground to a halt on the outskirts of the estate, so we decided to head to Moulton instead.

The roads were crammed with cars and were very wet. We made our way to the outskirts of Moulton and turned left to go past the college. As we made our way past, we could see cars turning around and realised that a deep flood covered the road further on. We had no choice but to go into the car park (which brought back memories of taking Mike to Army Cadets!) and try and think of another way to get home!

We told Sophie to avoid Holcot at all costs and drove out of the village and onto the A43 which was at a standstill by the Shell garage. It did not bode well! However, once we were past a flooded stretch of the road where cars were having to crawl through, we made good time to the turn-off to Hannington and home. What a relief! The last thing we wanted this week was for something to go wrong with the car!

Sophie arrived home shortly after us, and did most of the evening chores, bless her! Keith and I played cards and we had a very simple dinner of fish and mashed potatoes. The rain continued to fall all evening and we doubted very much whether we'd be able to get through Holcot tomorrow!