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A happy, prosperous, and peaceful New Year to you all.  In the words of the fictional Jack Jones (that's Lance Corporal Jones of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard), my first words before putting up...

A very merry Christmas to all of you.  I hope you have a smashing and relaxing day with your family and friends.  Last week we had quite a bit of rain and the aquifer reacted very quickly and the...

After a week of no precipitation of any normal sort, you'd be forgiven for thinking that water levels in the borehole would have stopped rising, or even fallen, but you'd be mistaken.  Although the...

Here we have the first real flood report of the year after collecting just over a weeks worth of data; and what a week it has been. Although the levels remain slightly below average, they are...

The year rolls round once again and I know 1st December is eagerly awaited by at least one villager as it marks the start of the rather arbitrary "flood season" for the River Till.   I have been...

Well, the end of March 2022 has arrived and with it, the end of the 2021-2022 water level monitoring; at least on a daily level.  There will be no more reports until the start of December 2022 -...

The last full week of this reporting season has continued to surprise me.  Despite no rain for almost a fortnight, water levels in the Tilshead borehole have continued to rise throughout the week. ...

Well, surprise, surprise!  The torrential rain on Wednesday put Boscombe Down on the BBC's list of the top 5 wettest places in the UK.  I would expect that upwards rise to continue until the end of...

Apologies for the delay in publishing this latest bulletin; due entirely to not having access to a computer and fast broadband.  Not to worry, the situation in the Tilshead borehole has been very...

Despite some truly dreadful weather over the last week, with several overnight deluges and even a bit of wintry weather that the Met Office would call snow despite it not settling, the water level in...