That was certainly a lot of rain!!!

Before Poppy would sit in her highchair for breakfast yesterday morning she had to fetch her toy horses to sit on her tray! There is not a lot of room with one large and two small toy horses, a bowl of cereal and a cup of juice!
Shortly after she had finished her breakfast the sky started to darken and darken, enough for me to put on the light, it was like nightime and very strange. Then the rain came down in torrents, the road turned into a river and Poppy climbed onto the sofa to look out through the window, fascinated by the water running down the glass, she even tried to wipe it off. Then she had an idea, she got off the sofa, walked over to me and said "hand", then with her other hand on her pram in which her dolly was asleep she pushed the pram and led me to the door. "Walk Grandma"!! The rain outside was coming down in buckets and Poppy decides she wants to go out for a walk, I told her it was raining very much and we would get very wet, I had to distract her with smarties! Gray rang to say the community centre was sporting several leaks and that the church next door also had lots of leaks and had to cancel the pensioners lunch that is usually held there on a Thursday. I can`t remember ever seeing rain like it before, the water was up to the kerb stones and lapping over the pavements, Gray said a fire engine was down by the petrol station pumping out the water from the road and the underpass was full of water!

When Gray came home from work he said there were floods in quite a few places and I was worried about Emma and Lees house knowing their road often has excess water and that the water had been up to their front door in the past. Luckily when she did get home she said the house was fine, same with Rachel and Stevens, though at work Rachel said the car showroom roof had caved in under the pressure! Scary.

Gray took Poppy out for a walk in the afternoon with her dolly in her pram, wearing her summer dress and brightly coloured wellington boots! She was very pleased to be going out with Grandad and after 2 circuits round the block she still did not want to return! He wanted a drink though as despite the earlier rain it was warm and muggy, and when Poppy did come in she proved she needed a drink too by finishing off the juice in her cup.

Emma arrived to fetch Poppy and take her to visit her cousin Ruby who had her 3rd birthday yesterday. Poppy had been singing happy birthday to Ruby all day, wonder if she sang it when she saw her!