PHOTO: JASON INGRAM
It is raining here, raining hard. The water butts are overflowing and the puddles straddling half the garden paths. The ground is skiddy with mud. Three months ago, when we were desperate for water, this would have been an idyllic picture but now it is very wet and not in a good way. The other day, I was reading a politician of some hue saying that he didn’t know what all the climate change fuss was about – that we have just as much rainfall now as we had 100 years ago, and people were making a fuss back then. It demeans everyone to have to take this sort of remark seriously but given that politicians are in positions of power, if not responsibility, let me highlight a few things – not least because we gardeners feel this so acutely.