ALL hands to the pumps!

I'd never envisaged this.  My tiny collection of carnivores stands a metaphorical ankle-deep in rain/pond water.  Rain when the Butt has it, pond when it hasn't.   Three days ago I evicted 1.3" = 34mm of wet from the gauge.  I made no note of subsequent amounts, but today, as I dodged the drops to fetch the milk in I noticed it was raining again.  Tipped out another 0.4" since yesterday.  The ankle-deep on my plants was about shoulder height; with my two recent Pinguicula's  compost under water-level an I indulged in a spot of bailing out.