Parched Earth

Even with some free water distributed from a day long gushing stand pipe, due to some emergency water works, the rain forecast for this evening will be most welcome.

© J Reed

With the poppies in full bloom and the arables, those that have grown at all, ripening fast, it is easy to forget that it is only the start of June.

Even drier Norfolk

Being to the east of England, Norfolk is well used to being slightly colder than the Riviera of the south west counties but, as any visitor to Cornwall will attest, it rains down there and not so up here in England's driest county.

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This year East Anglia is reminiscent of a 1930's US dust bowl with, as near as it makes no difference, no rain for over a month. Unseasonable warmth and sunshine has made everything grow too soon as well, but a below zero night time air frost killed not only tender bedding plants and vegetables plants but also normally totally hardy baby ivy leaves. My neighbour's lawn looks like a Wimbledon centre court after two weeks in a drought. Rain, rain, rain please to return England to a green and pleasant land.