No rain to wet the soil and make things grow and plenty of sunshine too since the end of March. If this carries on much longer, I am going to need to purchase a camel to get to the supermarket. I will call him Humpy Dumpy and he can live in our back garden. I hope he won't spit at me. Apparently, many camels have adopted that foul habit.
In an average year, Sheffield gets 32.17 inches of rain. This year, the rain clouds have got a lot of extra work to do if they are going to catch up. Already, levels are sinking in our local reservoirs - at Redmires and in the Derwent Valley.
Regarding water use, I was thinking the other day about how often people washed their bodies when I was a child. Mostly, I had one bath a week. Like most other Yorkshire families - we didn't even have a shower.
In contrast, nowadays most people have showers or baths every day of the week - even when their bodies are not dirty. That's a hell of a lot of extra water being used day after day - whereas back in the fifties and sixties, each Briton's weekly water usage score was pretty low. No wonder today's reservoir levels are sinking fast.
Come ye rains from the sky!
Let the clouds begin to cry!
Please rain afore it is too late
Water, Lord! Our need is great!
Bumba-bumba-bumba
Plother-plother-plother!
Eeek!
(All jump high at the end)
Camel photo © AzizAlbagshi
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