Thinking of building a Noah's Ark

Unbelievably bad weather, the river has been up about a foot today but is back to normal tonight. So many places are flooded and my petunia flowers have turned to mush.

Weather in Warrington
Friday 19° 12° 21.9 mm	Saturday 22° 10° 1.3 mm	Sunday 19° 11° 1.2 mm	Monday 17° 10° 1.6 mm

Yet, its not cold so everything is growing and maturing. I've pulled loads of raspberries and quite a few strawberries, in fact it's a race against the Botrytis with them. Tomorrow looks a little more promising so I can get back to the allotment. Stomach pain and suspected ulcers has been slowing me down. The 1st of the peas are ready and beans are close behind. Courgettes are developing in to good sized fruit and I've made my 1st courgette cakes. I need to get the French beans seedlings into the ground and plant the Dill and Coriander plugs.

I went in the allotment shed yesterday afternoon and found one of the blackbird chicks standing on top of the cupboards. Luckily I snapped its picture as 5 mins later it screeched and flew out. It was the last one to go! Just looking back at the photos they were just eggs on 18th June, 2 and a half weeks to fledging - amazing. I don't think it got very far as Mango disturbed a young one in the grass before we left and the parent bird was alarm calling all the time we were there. I hope they all survive and fancy some nice juicy slugs and snails because we have a surfeit of them this year.