Wet - again

At the time of posting this it has been raining heavily and solidly for 8 hours at least. The area round the Cottage is looking rather like a paddy field. It is hard to believe, given the rain we had a week or so ago, that yesterday the earth was hard a cracked and that it will be so again in a few days from now (hopefully anyway). The temperature on the deck is over 20 deg but it feels quite chilly even though there is no wind. I wonder why. I suppose it's all relative, though, because I still have the patio doors wide open.