More rain and flooding

Its been another very wet week.

Area where the pollarded willow is flooded again

Its been raining everyday for the pass week, so I kinda figured that the ground at the orchard would be very wet and that the corner that does get flooded would be so it was no real surprise when I got down their and it was.

The water in the flooded area was a brown muddy colour on Sunday. Many of the farms and the roads have been flooded, and the livery stable owner couldn't drive down to the stables. He had to walk down and with his Wellington's on, he didn't risk it even with the land-rover  I had gone down to the orchard with two fellow bee-keepers  I showed them around the hives we looked into two of them to see of the bees were fine and were still eating the fondant. In one fondant have been eaten and and brace comb built up into the additional super. I don't really want the bees wasting energy building wax. However it was nice to see the bees flying around, in this weather.

I saw a couple of ladybirds and various other insects. The grass is dying but the trees are doing ok.

Next week its going to get colder that will bring different issues.