Water

After the Black South Easter and the floods that it brought to Somerset West, the Overberg and the Southern Cape, I’m heading down to Agulhas this weekend and I’m expecting to see the fields looking like this:

The flat nature of the Agulhas Plains (they are plains, after all), means that run off is very slow and they still hadn’t got over the last lot of flooding back in August and September. I know that the roads were underwater over last weekend, but hopefully it’ll be wet around us, rather than all over us today.

And so to bed…

I spotted this photo by David W Lang on the Visit Isle of Man Facebook page.

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It’s the last regular Steam Locomotive of the season being put to bed in Port Erin – Purt Chiarn in Manx – for the winter (Special Events not withstanding). The steam railway on the Island is not just a tourist thing though, it supplements the bus service and is especially well used by commuters during the TT Races.

I’m pretty sure that this steam engine is the CH Wood, which transfixed my little boy back in July 2009 (bigger here):

I hope he has a happy hibernation.