For most of the year Britain has been suffering from exceptional amounts of rain, such that barely a month has passed without some new records being set - the wettest spring on record - the wettest three months on record, - the sequence has been endless. Some areas have been flooded more than once. Now the effects have come closer to home and members of my own family have been flooded out by a rising river caused by extraordinarily heavy rain falling on already waterlogged ground over the last few days.

So my home has become a refuge for them and my attention has been directed to their needs over the last little while.

But Bing had the words - Rain and River, Stay 'Way From My Door are two that come immediately to mind. We were Ridin' Around In The Rain to rescue, fetch and carry, but I think we have new reached High Water and we can see some Blue Skies but I guess we'll be left with Muddy Water or just plain dirty mud,  though not of the Mississippi variety. Bing never sang ''Mud'' though there is such a song, sung by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.