Despite a brief respite this week, flooding is still causing havoc across large swathes of the country. Like Duracell PR bunnies, though, PROs everywhere are gamely getting on with business.

Cheltenham-based Target Public Relations indomitable account executive Pippa Clark has spent the last week setting off to work by rowing out of her front door, which is one foot under water.

In the absence of any discernible road on the A38, she makes her way across town to her car, parked on higher ground, and drives the rest of the way.