In December we normally have 20mm of rain but we had 2mm. Before today we had 4mm of rain in January, but in the last 24 hours we have had an extra 12mm of rain, and this will keep us going for an extra 2 weeks. We have three tanks: one for the horses (which I took 150mm of future rain from already), a spare rainwater tank and the main tank. Prior to the rain the main tank was quite low, but this afternoon the main tank is sitting at half full which means that we don’t have to reduce any further shower reductions. Thrilling news!

Today we were able to increase our battery holdings up by only 10% and this was unusual for this time of the year so we had to resort to using the generator to power a chocolate fudge cake (most important) and two loads of washing using the dishwasher. Tomorrow is likely to be the same and we will use the generator to power the washing machine and some dishes. Maybe a further two extra week’s rain tomorrow. Here’s hoping as I sat inside and evaluated the merits of the LivingWriter software against my existing Scrivener software. As old and “clunky-difficult” Scrivener is reported to be, it still won hands done as a writing tool.