• Downpour in the woods

Last night’s rain over Cornwall gave us a slight inkling of what the floods have done to Scotland and the north of England in recent weeks.  It tipped down during the night and the roads were soon awash with flash torrents.  On the wooded lower slopes of the moor the water was racing across the grass, tumbling through the normally dry gaps between the trees and boulders just as it did on 1 January 2014.  And I was photo-bombed for the first time.