Breckland here, Jon, and like you, we're dry as a bone. Neighbour-across-the-road always gets up at 4am (!!) to do her vegetable-selling rounds of the villages, and she's just told me it was raining a tiny bit then, but not enough to help the land.
Our lawns too are nearly dead, but we're on a water meter, and our rainwater barrels are empty. I just keep the bird baths filled - the poor creatures are so thirsty!
To think we were up to our knees in rain over the winter!