Why not pave over your garden Vic, and then complain the Soutern Water are incompetent as their sewers are overflowing with rain that used to soak into your garden! Everybody else seems to?
The same comments in French below. (Shocking if true
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cn05nxv2z9po
Just a thought. Isn't it odd, that it's only since the publication of Roger Deakin's 'Waterlog' (1999 'A simply wonderful book...the perfect union of writer and subject...a delightfully eccentric masterpiece; no poolside or riverbank should be without it' Mail on Sunday), when the middle classes discovered 'wild swimming', that anyone's given a toss about the state of our rivers?