The call came again for some last minute leaflet delivering to more possibly-about-to-be-flooded houses, after another volunteer group hadn't managed to complete a final few streets earlier in the day.

A hardy group of 5 heeded the call and wound their way through the flooded streets to meet and share out the letters. Team Gover took the Bishy road side while Team Shar-Czek-Spice took Alma Terrace.

Team Gover hotfooted it over to Butcher Terrace and quickly delivered all the required letters, despite a few red herring letterboxes (including one nailed shut and one in an alleyway instead of the front door, as well as the usual array of letter-chewers). Quite a few sandbags already in evidence, and water lapping at the doors of some houses. Rich got bitten more than he could chew at one house, where a surprise tiny, but very angry, dog leapt out of the shadows to nip his ankles, much to his owner's horror. Other than that all went smoothly, and after ogling the flood water from the bridge for a bit, we headed home for tea, medals and wine.

From Team Alma, Michal and Max delivered on the left side of the road and Debs did the right side. Once they got to the bottom of the road they found that they had a few spare letters. The flooded house on the photo did get their letter delivered over the fence as the water was too deep get to their main entrance!

After pondering what to do with spare letters and studying the addresses list for good 5 min, they texted Team Gover for the second part of the list. Eventually they found out that they missed out the big block of flats/apartments at the junction with Fulford Rd (called Arncliffe Mews). They didnt have enough letters to drop at each flat, but they should be fine as they are farthest from the river. Other than Max reporting having slightly chilly fingertips, all was good for the Alma team and no vicious animal savagings to report.