A couple of years ago we were at the Sheringham Potty Festival (Morris dancing) and got chatting to a lovely couple from the Fens (Lincolnshire) They were farmers, and poor souls, their farm and house had been flooded out. Because the land there is so flat, floods sweep in and the drainage dykes can't cope. So although here in the East it's usually drier than the West, the weather seems very unusual nowadays.