It has been a very soggy weekend for most of us in Scotland. Lots of disruption due to flooded roads and railway lines. Luckily I was able to stay home mostly, and read while listening to the rain battering off the windows.

Letters to Enid part 42

and

The Secret Island part 5

The rain went on pouring down, and soon people began to say that there would be floods in Toytown. Such a thing had never happened before!

The river overflowed and joined the pond on which the duck swam. Then what a great stretch of water there was for the duck to swim on! The water spread right up to the farmhouse, and the farmer’s wife rushed upstairs in fright, for it poured in at her kitchen door!

” We shall have to live in the bedrooms!” she cried. ” Oh dear, oh dear! What a dreadful thing! All my kitchen chairs are floating about! “

An apt quote given the weather in Scotland at the moment. This is from Rain in Toytown from the first Holiday Book. Of course the story has a happy ending with the giant rubber duck making himself useful floating to the shops and helping people.