Bridges over Troubled Waters
Joining Westhay with Wedmore is a road called Blakeway. It cuts across the flat ground of the Somerset Levels. Apart from a couple of sharp bends near Sweets Tea Rooms this is a very...
Category: Flood
Tealham Reservoir
The Tealham Reservoir From this picture it looks like a permanent lake with a walkway around the edge complete with spring daffodils. It does look very nice in the blue skies of spring. The...
Water Water Everywhere
A mute swan paddles slowly across a lake that used to be a field. This was just one of delights seen on a walk along North Chine Drove near Wedmore in Somerset. This...
Return to Queen’s Sedge Moor
Early Morning My alarm went off very early in the morning. Too early. Most mornings I pull back the curtains to check the weather. It was grey and dull, but the clouds looked interesting....
Burrow Hill
There are several iconic hills in the Somerset Levels: Glastonbury Tor Nyland Tump Burrow Mump Burrow Hill Tor is probably from Welsh. Lump.. tump.. mump are lovely English words. Today it is the turn...
The Floods from Glastonbury Tor
I’m a bit jealous of all those people posting beautiful drone images on social media. I would love to get a drone, but I find their noise really annoying. This is probably because they...
Hart Lake
With all the recent flooding I visited Splotts Moor between Glastonbury and Wells in Somerset. I pulled up near Hartlake Bridge, so to me the flooding could have restored the original Hart Lake....
Storm Dennis
Langport Following on from Storm Ciara last week, Storm Dennis arrived over the weekend. Both brought heavy rain and winds. On the Somerset Levels it also brought floods. The River Parrett burst its banks at Langport...
