Easter Monday

After a lazy start, we decided to go out for the day and drove D over to Muchelney to John Leach's pottery and the old village with the Abbey ruins. I asked Mrs Leach about the flooding. She said that the gallery was not flooded but the pottery and their thatched house had 9 inches of water in it. Apparently it was "sanitised" after the waters had gone so I gather the District Council must have disinfected all the waterlogged dwellings during the clean up. Greenery has now grown back everywhere in this quarter of the levels but N noticed how the leys had been flood damaged in the quality of the growth in the fields.

We arrived at the ancient town of Somerton for lunch at the White Hart. Somerton gave its name to Somerset and was the capital of the County. And later in about 900 AD it was probably the capital of Wessex.

The day became hot and we arrived home and after sitting about in the garden eventually did some gardening until A arrived from next door with an orange polenta cake!