With the ever increasing levels of the lake at Watermead which is now over the wall and creeping up the bank I might have to take my webcam down before it’s submerged in water.

The water has got a way to go yet but it looks like it is steadily getting there. At this rate I might need a boat to get to my front door soon.

What amazes me is we still have a hosepipe ban?

I’ve lived on Watermead now for about 18 months and I have never seen the lake so high before as it it now.

The water is almost above the lake wall and when it is windy it goes above it. The weather forecast for the next 10 days says either rain or showers so it could get even higher than it is now.

Should I be concerned? Is the Lake likely to flood?

I noticed on the Bucks Herald website that they were reporting gridlock on virtually every road into town on Monday morning.

Apart from the 1 disastrous day back in August when the Water Board decided to cone off the roads at the same time as the new junction road works were going on I haven’t found too many problems with traffic myself.

That being said, I don’t tend to travel at peak times so perhaps I am a bad judge of this. Now that the traffic lights have been installed and are working at the new Watermead junction I am finding it quicker to get out of Watermead and not too difficult to get in.

That may change when the four way lights are used by the new housing development junction more regularly but only time will tell. I do find it surprising that the traffic lights haven’t been made as intelligent as they could be. When traffic is on a green light in out out of Aylesbury the right hand filter light for traffic into Watermead is red.

This obviously makes sense and keeps the traffic moving along the main road but the amount of times I have been sat at the filter light which only lets a few cars through at a time when there is nothing coming in the other direction, you would think they could make the traffic lights intelligent enough to realise there is no traffic coming into Aylesbury, there is a queue of traffic waiting to come into Watermead so lets change lights so traffic can still go straight on out of Aylesbury and turn right.

How hard would that be?

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I love living by the lake but at times it really does have it’s downside too. Over the last few days there seems to be a couple of hundred Canadian Geese arrive to add the ones that were already here and boy are they noisy.

When your laying in bed at 3 am and all your hear is them squawking (if that’s what they do) its no fun I can tell you.

The ducks quaking I can handle as they are not so loud and I find them quite soothing but these Geese are something else.

If only they came with a volume control!