Fishlake isn't news any more, but the drama continues.
My daughter and her family are now living in a rented house at Carlton. It's a nice house, old but very thoroughly modernised.
Both their cars were damaged. One has been written off; we await the verdict on the other. Meanwhile they have one hire car and I have lent them mine. I can get about in my Transit.
I had doubts about the sense in keeping the Transit after I retired, but that plus the trailer I bought this year for moving stuff about (behind the tractor) in the back yard have been invaluable. The Transit is a 3.5 long wheelbase hightop with ridiculously low mileage given that it's
2009. It's amazing how much stuff you can pile in a big Transit and a trailer.
I went to Thorne Rugby Club to collect some chairs they had donated, and they also gave me three big heavy trays of vegetables, which I took to Fishlake church for distribution. It's astonishing the donations Fishlake has had, from all over the place.
The days moving stuff about have been incredibly tiring for me, but I seem to recover the day after the next day!
In the end we realised that we had to take absolutely everything out of the flooded house, because the damp and the smell was going to ruin anything that was left. So the house is now completely empty; even the loft has been cleared. We have been able to get in and out of the village by one route only. It's a terrible route, all lanes, and bends and flooded sections.
The house has a temporary mains supply, as does almost every house in the village. An incredible job by Northern Powergen. They have installed a temporary distribution board with four double 13A outlets in most houses. Cables snake everywhere.
Doncaster Council seemed to be a bit disorganised at first but suddenly they have turned up in force and have cleared all the outdoor areas.
Bill