…our water ran out (in that taps that is). For those of you in Burgh, who may be keeping tabs, things are not as bad as they are being made out, at least not for us where we are. We managed to get to a wholesalers on Sunday morning and managed to stock up. We have been told though that it may be upt to 14 days before water supplies are restored. For those of you who don’t know, the water treatment plant near us was flooded (not the sewage treatment) on Saturday at about 3am. Around about 4pm on Monday the taps started to run dry. The water company has brought in water bowsers (basically big blue tanks with taps) that have been stationed around the area so that you can get access to clean water for drinking, washing, flushing loos etc. etc. Things may sound horrid but we’re doing ok, we have been told we may have another deluge from the heavens either today or tomorrow, which will be fun. Some of the flood water has subsided over the last day or so and the local substation has been secured (apparently it was within 7 inches of going under water), if that had gone down then several hundred thousand homes round here would be without power for some time.
The kids are their usual selves, like most kids they get bored really easily, especially when there is little for them to do due to closed areas due to flooding. This does make them highly irritating to me and Kai though. We did discuss Kai and the kids heading up to Edinburgh for a week or so till all this subsides but she doesn’t want to leave me down here on my own. I can’t leave as I’m on call with work – in other words I may be brought in at any time with minimal warning to fix servers’n’stuff. So for the moment they are staying with me down here. If things change for the worse, we may review that situation. Currently the trains are running and whilst the roads aren’t great we can get through, so worse comes to the worse I take Kai to Brum to catch the train and then I crash at Scotts for the night (he doesn’t know about my cunning plan yet though) 
Anyway, we’re alive, well, dry and with power/internet/phone/tv.