Okay, it's about 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. It hasn't rained since 5 p.m. yesterday.

The grass isn't visibly wet, but I would describe it as visibly damp.

I can't see water droplets on it. It's not particularly spongy to walk on,

but when I do walk across it and then walk onto the patio, I'm sure it's the very good wet footprints.

Rain is forecast in about 3 to 4 hours' time, and then it's probably going to stay like that for days and days and days.

I just think that it's a narrow window of opportunity to mine now.

It's still quite damp. We wash many auto-dispensers.

But it constantly seems to ask now for something that I'm saying is softening as well,

but it's not. We top it off very often, and I can visibly see the reservoir is nearly full.

And I'm not sure if it's going to be softened as much as it used to be.

I wonder what the reason for the fault is and what I can do about it.