Boxing Day, December, 2012.

Don't know if you have noticed but it seems to us that taking photos of the misfortunes of others and then blogging them has become something of a sport.

The very spot from which Sky News gave the nation 24 hour coverage of the River coming up (it's going back down now). Exciting, wasn't it.

The City's feathered community carrying on regardless (and having a quiet chuckle to themselves no doubt).

Don't bother to ring up about the Boxing Day menu. No rush.

Note water being pumped out faster (one presumes) than it is flooding in.

No interest in watching from the Centre Course Enclosure. Funny that.

Water being pumped over the new flood defences and back into the river from Hylton Road. The multi-million pound defences have held firm; it's the Victorian drains that can't cope now.

Well, that's our constitutional over. Time to wander back home for one of Vicky's signature Boxing Day turkey dinners. It comes with chips and gravy.

Come on Vic, let's get a move on!