H2O

That's what we have had plenty of today. The picture is part of a narrowboat and today's mission was 'to capture water'.

It was that wet, the ducks were even out of the water! The narrowboat trips weren't running and everyone was hanging onto their hoods to try to stop getting wet as the wind was blowing too much for a brolly.

Quick Fact Find: Looking at the www. apparently water makes up 70.9% of the earths surface with only 2.5% being freshwater. Water on the earth moves continually through the hydrological cycle of evaporation and transpiration (evapotranspiration), condensation, precipitation, and runoff. Evaporation and transpiration contribute to the precipitation over land, i.e RAIN.

I got some reference books out from the library (one on photography). I didn't realise how long I hadn't been to the library as they have a new snazzy machine that you just place all your books together in it and it just scans them. You get a ticket for the return date so no more stamping the inside of the book with a date. I will miss that as I like to see when it was read prior to me and how popular or unpopular it is. I will also likely lose the ticket and run up late return payments!

I think we need to support our local libraries before they all disappear from our high streets along with independent shops squeezed by high rents and rates and to be just left with high street chain coffee shops and charity shops. I do like a coffee shop and charity shops raise well needed funds but we don't want a town just made up of those. We need diversity and services. Anyway, I think Skipton is lucky to have a vibrant high street that lots of people come to visit and shop.