Drain

 

Although there's been some restoration to sections of the forests' streams and drains to their pre-Victorian watercourses, they're the anomalies rather than the rule. The straight forestry drains remain the rule. Though the restored sections have been cleverly selected to mean that many of the remaining drains cease to function as designed, backing up and flooding out into their surrounding woodland, where they hold the waters back as desired. They're certainly holding plenty of water at the moment as it remains wet out. This morning was a rainy walk again. There seems a sort of rhythm to our current weather, a couple of days rain and grey, followed by a dry and sunny day.