Windy and wet here today.
Alternating here, but a fair amount of sunshine in between. 
Alternating here too, but without any sunshine in between 
Farmer neighbor has a proper rain gauge and tells us that we’ve had 585mm of rain since the beginning of November. Sounds like a lot to me.
Did our weekly hiking group thing this morning, but starting at 10 rather than 9am cos the mist on the Lot was pretty thick - our house is on the north bank and at breakfast time we couldn’t even see the river let alone the other side of it.
However, within half an hour we’d climbed through a wet and muddy forest, forded several powerful streams (some Dutch newbies in very wet trainers!) and were above the mist in weak sunshine and could look down on the valley, which was still full of mist. By lunchtime, the mist had cleared and we had our end of walk picnic on the banks of the river. There’s so much variation in local altitudes and micro-climates that whatever time of year one can always find a good walking route. Love it!
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Looking forward to next week - sun every day and temperatures well below zero. 
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Blue skies seem to mitigate the below-zero temperatures. My fingers are crossed that my forecast changes from ‘mostly cloudy’ to ‘mostly sunny’!
How anyone could look forward to temperatures well below zero is beyond me. Brrrh!
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You should see where I live Shrewsbury.
That’s before it rose further and is now pouring though the windows shown.
Sorry enough now - humour thread.
Given you posted here, I’ll omit the obvious sympathy and ask have you ever though of retraining as a gondolier?
Seriously though, hope it dries out fast when the water recedes
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Is it OK if I move the two above into the “The weather” thread?
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Seems more appropriate
About the same chez nous - though thankfully we’re on high ground.
I have to drive down to Portsmouth tomorrow though - which might be fun (not).
Mark, I pushed my 96 yr mum into town this afternoon in her wheelchair. I told her we would be transferring to a gondola. She wasn’t even slightly enthusiastic. We felt very sorry for all the folk trying to pump water out of their premises and homes.
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It’s the silt and other rubbish which really fouls things up.
At least the cellar chez nous en France was filled with mainly clean water.
Looking at the past weather forecasts it has been peeing it down in Brittany as well so I hope that the pump hasn’t failed again. Next week seems to be going for a sunny but cold theme.
Regarding lighting, I worked in an equipment room with no natural light. I was quite badly affected by SAD and my manager had the flourescent tubes replaced with a closer to daylight colour temperature. What really helped though was when I started using a sad lamp each morning. My colleagues would ask how I could bear the bright lamp. Easily - for me. We later moved into another room just visiting the equipment room when needed. Had a desk by a large window. That was very nice. Last week following days of awful weather I bought a SAD light. SAD is insiduous - a grey mood that creeps up on the unsuspecting. Of course the ideal thing is to go outside when it’s bright out there but I do live in Shrewsbury.
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Same batch of heavy rain as we’ve had in Surrey I think - it was very wet on Tuesday morning and again this afternoon and evening. I had to do a family portrait photo shoot near Horsham on Tuesday morning and wished I was in an amphibious landing craft instead of a Honda Accord estate.
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I feel your pain. Last Thursday was especially fun on my normal cross country route to/from work (thankfully that particular journey is only twice a week) - in fact I suspect the car thought that I had decided it was an amphibious landing craft.
It didn’t help that routes I’d normally take to avoid the one I knew were likely to be flooded were closed for roadworks, nor that a moment of distraction meant that I turned down my normal route instead of the alternative, drier route that I had intended - having made the turn I decided it would be too much hassle to go back thus compounding one mistake with another.
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Still no rain here since March 2021 in the PO. Water was released from one of the high barrages before xmas but not enough to make much difference although the vegetation is actually quite green in some parts. Its helping to me find plants that need very little for my eventual garden though instead of wasting money on those that won’t survive for long. Its also pretty warm as well still although a cold spell via the strong tramontine wind is forecast from tomorrow but not enough to warrant any heating yet.
It’s just started snowing here 
. Unfortunately there’s not a lot of it, and although it’s cold enough not to melt (forecast max 1C today and 80kph gusts), I don’t think it’ll ammount to much 
. I love walking in the snow.