2025 - How's your weather today?

It's stopped raining and the silver birch is just gently swaying now.

Our soakaway that I dug over 40 years doesn't seem to be working as well any more. I just dug a big hole and filled it with broken bricks. I've been digging holes trying to locate it and have managed to find the pipe leading to it so don't think I'm too far away. I'd like to find the end of this pipe so I can check the water flow in it before deciding what to do.

That sounds a mammoth project, Mark, been there done that.  Soakaways, like privies, are things you hope never to have to dig again