What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Reckless Rat]

Today, I have been mainly drying out the garage after a recent "Episode Cevenole" which brought down about 200mm of rain on our village over the past 48 hours. As a result there is a lot of run-off, some of which has manifested itself in producing a freshwater spring in the passageway between the garage and the higher levels of the garden. It has been running constantly for the past two days and shows no sign of letting up. The garage floor was covered by a huge puddle, mainly due to rainwater being blown under the doors during the storm (I have a cunning plan for that, but it's All Saint's Day here so everywhere is shut) and part due to filtration of the spring water passing through the garage blockwork. I seem to have stemmed that by digging a gulley for the water to escape onto the drive. No real harm done, and I've drilled a couple of 1" holes in the garage floor to allow the water to drain off into the sub-base. You can see the resulting stream in the passageway to the right of the garage: