Gentle rain, nuts, and referring a friend

The past week’s 35mm of rain has been mercifully gentle. It has all been sucked down by our parched soil, although, on drier fields, it will take as much again to join up with the moisture held at depth. We would have liked much more, but are grateful to have avoided the calamitous downpours that so often mark the end of a drought, and risk washing the dry soil away. The rain came too late…

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