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....
Tagged: Floods
Walton Spring
Walton This small Somerset village sits on the road just west the town called Street. Sadly, the church is yet to welcome its wilder side. It has very few flowers, only a handful of...
Long Drove Floods
More flooding between Wells and Glastonbury. Apparently this is a road. Long Drove is a dead straight road that runs for about 2 miles. This van made it across the deep part. Several other...
Godney Floods
Floods all around in Somerset at the moment, Godney Moor is no exception. Godney Moor I headed down to the small village of Godney to watch the sunrise over the sea towards Glastonbury Tor....
Splotts Moor
Early morning flood adventures in the shadow of Glastonbury Tor. Splotts Moor When I visited the flood waters on Westbury Moor I also saw a lot of flooding around Splotts Moor. So this morning...
East Waste
In recent years it has become obvious to all that the Somerset Levels are prone flooding. Today I visited an area that is frequently under water. East Waste East Waste, and its neighbour West Waste,...
Water ladybirds escape the flood
Water Ladybirds (Anisosticta punctuate) on the entrance gate posts to RSPB Greylake nature reserve on the Somerset Levels. Normally these ladybird spend winter between leaves and in stems of reeds and grass tussocks. I assume as much...
Somerset Floods
The floods across the Somerset Levels have been hitting the news. I needed to take an opportunity in a break from work to see what had happened first hand.
London 2012 Autumn Olympics
This is a picture of the Dearleap Tree I took today while it was raining. Yesterday’s picture looked the same, and the one taken the day before that, and the day before that, and…...
These fields need a Bale Out
Successful hay making relies on the grass being thoroughly dried before it is baled. I’m not sure this farmer near Glastonbury baled dry grass but after the wettest June in a hundred years in...
