On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:28:57 +0100, "Anne Burgess"
wrote:

Er ... the lawn slopes downhill towards the trees, so they must
be getting only the water which the lawn hsn't used, surely?

Just beyond the edge of the lawn the land drops very steeply into a six
metre gorge with a burn flowing along its bottom and most of the trees
are on the other side of the gorge. The burn is barely flowing at all at
the moment which is unusual for this time of the year. I haven't
measured the soil depth but the bed rock is not far below the surface so
any water will quickly drain into the burn. In fact, with an average of
about 1,800 mm/year, it has to!

We have about twenty-three acres and there is always some part that's
waterlogged. This year, of the bits I've been able to get to, there
isn't.

Last Tuesday we drove up to Fort William and all the lochs and burns are
very low.

Despite a very wet winter and early spring, it's reaching the stage
where we badly need some continuous rain.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather