It never seems to drizzle here in the Lima valley but it rains; indeed it monsoons. Two days we’ve had of almost incessant downpour and it shows in our approach roads where aqua-planing could easily be established as a sport and in normally semi-dry gullies now turned into new rivulets.

The Refubbri stream has now become a raging torrent.

The irony is that the spring where we normally obtain our water (so much preferable to the chlorinated tap water we get) is dry!

Anyway, in all our years here we’ve never seen such a deluge of precipitation from the heavens.

We are fortunate that we live in a hilly area so the waters will drain off quickly. But where? The Lucca plain must now be sodden and large chunks of it under water.

Need we blame climate change for this?