Flood damage pictures (by alaric)

Flood diverter (by alaric)

We've built a flood diverter:

Heavy rain is predicted tomorrow, and if it floods again, this thing should help to divert the stream around behind the house.

Thing is, it reminds me of the scenery from the first part of Half Life: 2. I feel compelled to find some yellow paint and put a lambda symbol on it.

Harry Potter Sorrow (by sarah)

This was written offline on Monday:

Well as I had to be 'rescued' from Cheltenham on Friday I obviously do not yet have the book that I have been waiting for - for an age Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This is really really frustrating me!

Ontop of that I have started to feel really ill - stomache variety - apparently our tap water is a)contaminated and b)about to run out and there are riots at Asda and things over the bottled water which sounds really scary.

We are going to try and get some food in as obviously all the food in the fridge and freezers is lost not becuase we don't have any electricity as we have a generator but becuase the appliences themselves got wet and are therefore not safe to plug in.

I am hoping that I can finially pick up a copy of Harry Potter whilst out!

A hard Decision (by sarah)

This Post was written off line on Sunday:

Last night me and Alaric made a hard descision, at about 1 in the morning we phoned my perants and asked them to come and get Jean in the morning.

One of Barbaras friends had invited us to dinner to help out and she had made a lovely meal but before Jean could eat any off it she started vomiting (as in Jean vomited god English is a bad language for this). She rallied trumphantly and was happily playing when it happened again. Five times in all before she was being wrapped in a blanket to be taken home in and daddy was topless (he told all the ladys to restrain them selves cheecky boy!).

We were up very late with puking onto the towls, into the fire place, down mummys cleavage etc... This was really scaring us but we couldn't get through to nhs direct and she was still perking up after each time so we didn't think we should contact the emergancy servacies etc...

But realising that it was probably from the flood water or just the stress of her home being pulled to pieces we phoned my perants and asked them to come and get her.

This was a very hard decision for us as this will be the longest we've been apart from her since she was born :'(

More flood updates (by alaric)

Firstly, Sarah's fallen ill too. Throwing up lots. We took her to the doctors who said that hopefully it'd pass in a day or so, and to get in touch if it didn't, or if it got worse.

Secondly, the good news, the insurance people will happily replace all the damaged stuff from downstairs, and gave us £200 up front to cover short-term emergency living expenses!