A hosepipe ban has just been extended in one of the very wettest parts of England, after the wettest March for 40 years and an even wetter January. I have the suspicion that if South West Water were in charge of Mawsynram in the East Khasi Hills district of India — reputedly the wettest place on God’s earth, with an average of 467 inches of rain a year — there would be notices all over the place telling you not to fill up your hot tub and to let the crocuses wither.
I don’t know what these jokers do with all the water they’ve got down there in Devon and Cornwall. Local people have been helpfully informed that this latest hosepipe ban is likely to
