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If you're coming to Somerset remember to bring your wellies and a snorkel ;-)
I've just been chatting to a couple of my neighbours in the post office whose house are flooded. They said the water is about 3 feet deep. The stuff upstairs is getting affected by the damp. Not exactly the best time for a holiday in the country :-(

Oh it's not a holiday Graham, we live there, we share our time between there and South west Surrey / Hampshire.

We live on the North Somerset / Devon Coast.,wild and windy up on Exmoor most of the time, we are well used to getting wet !

M.

Well after much rodding, hosepipe fiddling and a few choice words from the men, we now have only 3cm of water in the garden.

Now we need a couple of dry days to let some of it evaporate, our poor old dog is fed up with being soaked every time she stays awake long enough to get dragged outside :-(

Well I'm sure all the people that have been forced out of their homes by the floods will be glad to here that Maryannas holiday home (that is empty 5 days a week) is okay. :-P

Yes, it must be just as bad for those with holiday homes. Even worse, because you can imagine the damage being done to probably your second most precious possession and cannot even get to see the damage.

Had not thought about it much up until now, but many round here in S Wales Valleys spend a lot of time down West Wales. Many think more of their holiday homes than their main homes. Suspect some are worth more money.

Look, before you start on your high horse, Graham it is NOT a holiday home.

I will not be slated because I live in two different houses. We share our old family home which we bought thirty years ago with hard earned money with our daughter and family.

The house in Somerset is an old family home left to me and my sister fifteen years ago and rather than see it go I bought my sister out. She bought a car with the money, I still have a house I always loved.

I still work three days a week in Surrey to help keep it going and go to Somerset, which we now consider our main home, for the rest of the week to give our daughter a bit of time on their own.

Up until recently our eldest son has shared the house in Somerset with us but they recently bought a house down the road of their own.

Would you like me to go and live on the levels rather than the coast then Graham ?

By the way most of our friends own holiday homes either in this country or abroad, They all worked hard to do so, some are still working well past retirement age.

And please don't think I am not sympathetic to ANY of those who have been flooded out, But I and probably you can only imagine what it is like and there for the Grace of God. Me moving house is not going to make any difference to them. By the way anyone who wishes to come and stay is welcome to but they would have to put up with us coming and going and it is a very small house.

You do not know me or my family, you are welcome to your opinion but until you have met me face to face then keep it to yourself.

M

Don't worry Maryanna - if the truth be told many other members on here possibly own a second property, in many cases inherited.

I'm guessing that as Graham lives in that area, he knows or feels greater empathy towards those who have been displaced by the Somerset flooding than other members might.

There's a lot of people I know who have been flooded out of the one and only house that they have to live in. They don't have the luxury of being able to go off to Surrey and fret about flooding hunndreds of miles away. Just remember that there are a lot of people in far worse circumstances than you. :-P

How rude you are Graham.

I am fully aware thank you, if you bothered to read any of my previous post you would know that.

If I had another house in say Essex or somewhere up North would that not bother you as much ?

Or is it just the Surrey thing, I can't help where I was born any more than you can.

My husband has worked his socks off to provide for me and our family, we didn't see him for weeks on end when the children were small and now he is retired we are doing what we want when we want, my work permitting.

I don't have to justify myself to you and as Detective says I certainly am not the only one on here who owns more than one property.

And as I said before I have friends and relatives on the Levels, know the area well, and am fully aware of what Hell they are going through. Our daughter in law is a Somerset farmers daughter and her parent's farm is partly under water with the level rising.

And please don't stick your tongue out at me, I wouldn't tolerate it from the very small children with Special Needs that I work with, I don't expect an adult who should know better to do so.

You have got me thinking now, and I am just about to go and throw my daughter and baby out on their ear so I can sell this house for a million pounds and go off down to Somerset and live on the profits.

By the way, I hate gnomes. M

Whilst the water may not be as deep it does rather depend where you are in Surrey - doesn't it?

A lot of those flooded out in Surrey had spent a lot of money raising the level of their homes and building flood defences themselves. They are finding it particularly upsetting after their hard work and cost has been so wasted.

Whilst I sympathise with Graham please don't take your anger and upset out on others, especially when you may not know the full story.

Well actually, I haven't mentioned this before but my sister lives in Chertsey and we are on standby to go and help her move stuff upstairs and take her and her family in here with us if necessary.

But I suppose that is all her own fault for choosing to live in a house by a river in Surrey.

M

It doesn't make any difference where your two houses are. The fact is you've come on here saying "look at poor old me. I've only got two houses and one them has a wet patio. How am I going to cope?" whilst there are people who have nowhere to live right now because of the floods. Take a good look at yourself. If I had two houses right now I would not be rubbing peoples noses in it. You are in no position to be calling me rude! :-P :-P :-P :-P

I wonder if anyone thinks that Graham is NOT incredibly rude. Can you not stick your tongue in a dyke, Graham? It would at least be useful. :-D

Personally, I think Graham has been incredibly rude to Maryanna, and she deserves a very sincere apology!

Plus, removal of all Graham's posts.


She was responding a thread that asked in general about how people were being affected by the flooding in various areas ............ and gave her story.


I certainly did not see it as boasting about having 2 properties ............ or about being in better shape than anyone else re the flooding situation.


Graham ......................

Better keep your opinions to yourself in future re this type of thing.



Am I about to be slated because I live in another country, and yet dare to comment on this thread? :-)

graham this is not the time or place if you cant see that STAY OFF THE THREAD it does not matter how many houses people have they still suffer as the rest do. so do one :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

Not at all Sylvia. Everybody has the right to express their opinion. Whatever country they are in.

I too think Graham has been very rude to Maryanns. His attack on her was most uncalled for.

And John, for the first time ever there you made me laugh!

Get over yourself Graham.

Plus the fact, given the choice I would sell up and live permenantly in Somerset. Up until now it has been my most favourite place, where my family originated.

Just how much under water is your house ?

I hope I don't bump into you next week, when I visit my many friends who live around Glastonbury and the surrounding, very wet area in their flooded and ruined homes and farms.

Funny none of them resent my lifestyle and that is exactly what it is MY life but it is the only way I can fit in working and being with two of my children and grandchildren as much I want to.

I didn't ask anyone to feel sorry for me for having a soggy patio, it was, as Sylvia said, just my story. Perhaps we should have left it to get higher and let it flood the house, make you feel happier that the woman who dares to let her daughter and family live with her so they save for a home of their own, in what you assume is a typical Surrey mansion, gets her come uppance.

By the way you are actually assuming a lot, for all you know I could be spinning a complete yarn and actually live in a caravan which we tow up and down the A303 weekly.

M.

Would anyone want to see a house/business flooded - whether it was rented or owned?

Just my personal view, with a bit of help from my dad's religious view.

The fact that Maryanna has her original family home, that happens to be in Somerset, and not flooded, should not invite vitriolic criticism.
Is it her fault it is where it is?

I used to live in a Tied House ( went with job) we also had what some would consider a holiday home.

Guess which meant more to us - yes - the little cottage we owned. Both properties contained things we would be upset about losing. If we still had that cottage we would again let friends use it in emergencies - but Grahams attitude.................... well it would put us right off.

Edit: I currently live in a Thames side village prone to flooding.