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Reflections 22nd October

Sandbags, Strange Attractors, and the Role of Faith.

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Richard Merrick
Oct 22, 2023
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This is the River Derwent at the Bridge Inn, exercising itself where I live. It is normally a gentle river flowing under this old bridge but has this weekend reached record levels and flooded the nearby villages in a way I haven’t seen in our thirty-three years here. The previous record was in 2019. Remy looks like he understands what is going on perhaps better than we do.

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