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After five days and nights of near constant rain, this Spurtle correspondent stepped out in leaking wellies and went for a squelch.
The sun didn't break from behind a cloud.
Instead, the neighbourhood turned out to be variously …
Droukit in St Mark's Park
![St Mark's Park Gormley](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2023-12/IMG_2747.jpeg?itok=DUOnR8BW)
and plashy by the Redbraes weir.
![Tunnel near Redbraes weir](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2023-12/IMG_2739.jpeg?itok=QRanr_AC)
There were plowtery conditions in Puddocky
![Heron beside the Water of Leith](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2023-12/IMG_2748.jpeg?itok=xzwh8WZy)
and feechie ones in Canonmills.
![Canonmills puddle](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2023-12/IMG_2751.jpeg?itok=TWV6ee__)
The bank was whumbled by Tanfield
![Water of Leith nearly overtopping](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2023-12/IMG_2761.jpeg?itok=iroUnHM9)
and in Stockbridge it was fairly, um, bummelin.
![Stockbridge Gormley](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2023-12/IMG_2770.jpeg?itok=NUXQtzTG)
More rain is forecast for tomorrow and Friday and most of next week. A yellow SEPA flood alert is in place for Edinburgh and the Lothians.—AM
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