This rams home the severity of the water shortages

Sunday lunchtime I dragged himself out for some fresh air after the excesses of Saturday's wedding and suggested we walk up to Edgbaston Reservoir - it should probably be re-named Edgbaston sand pit.

 This is also the home of the Midland Sailing Club which hosts sailing, kayaking and wind surfing courses - Nicholsons', for some reason, refers to it as Rotton Park Reservoir - it's certainly more Park than Reservoir at the moment.

 There's not a lot of water left for watersports

 I was amazed by the amount of mussel shells lying around - sadly all empty

 G's GPS showed us as being in the water

 All this is the reservoir bed - when Lesley  and I last walked this in January/February, the water was up to the tree line

 and right up to the bridge we are stood on - now there's only this little stream left. G kindly went all through our photo archives to find the pics I took here during the ice age but, for some mysterious reason, we couldn't find them. Every other walk that Lesley and I covered except this one It would have been nice to be able to, 'compare and contrast'

 Although we are further away from the BT tower here, it looks even closer

 A chap from the sailing club said that they had drained this reservoir 3 years ago (for repairs to the dam) and that there was more water in it when it was drained than there is now.

 G is standing below the dam wall

 These guys have found a bit left to play in

 I love these Victorian warehouses - they back on to the Icknield Port Loop which does not have a towpath

 So not really surprised to see a couple of narrers in the yard