Half the staff haven’t made it into work today, we had flash floods last night. Several staff’s homes were flooded, and the rest just couldn’t get here because of road closures due to flood water, mud or the fact the road just wasn’t there anymore.

Personally I was having a ‘Nero’ moment, except I hadn’t got a fiddle - just my camera. I’d watch the sky get blacker and blacker in the distance whilst sat at the computer and then heard the thunder. If I could just get the timing right, I might even get a picture of lightening. I didn’t of course, my timing sucks.

Off I wandered down the fields that over look Great Witley & Shrawley and watched the blanket of rain fall in the distance, it missed us completely. Although we’ve never had much of a problem with flooding as we’re on a hill, the bottom half of the village suffers I'm afraid.

So the best I could manage was some black cloud shots and getting myself stung by stringing nettles, which I’d failed to notice until I was standing in the midst of them.