Wet

Wet, wet, wet

What's almost inevitable after the wettest summer ever? Sustained heavy rainfall in November. With the water tables already high, there's more people going to be flooded.

In the past two years I've worked on my first water-damage recovery projects. The rule of thumb is that an inch of saturated masonry takes a month to dry. Nine inch wall, nine months to dry. Actually, nine dry months to dry. Both were firefighting water damage, so drying was only hampered by previously unexposed unweathered walls soaking up rainfall, and the plumbing faults unoccupied, unheated buildings are prone to.

The biggest shame is that inherent in the problem is that unless there are massive works undertaken between flood events, the worst hit places are always the worst hit. The same folks suffering the same fate.

Gove's Bible

Tim Nice But Dim strikes again – I missed this first time around. Thanks Dave.

The priceless bit isn't spending £375,000 sending Bibles to schools described as awash with Bibles already. It's Tim writing a forward. Yep. The gospel according to St Michael.