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Hi, Pigale!
I've been trying to type around the cat! Not easy, as I can see neither the keyboard nor part of the screen!
I'm sure Rusty is right in that we have had the same or very similar clues only recently - I'm just too lazy to look back and try to find them!
We're having nothing but rain again here ......I wish it would be a bit cooler with it - this unseasonable warmth is just not right!
Our local river (unlike yours ) is very high though.

Rusty, Elle, Pigale ...

I'm glad my feeling of disgruntlement - a word I've just created, I think - has been shared.

I think the first part of the answer to 11 D featured recently and 18 D was also given not so long ago. As well as the Londonisms, we solvers are being served up repeats now. It's 18 D if you ask me!

Good comments, Malone!

... disgruntlement - a word I've just created, I think ...

'dictionary.com' doesn't agree:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disgruntlement

Hello, all!
With reference to the Barking clue, I looked up "mad" in Bradford's, and barking was there, unsurprisingly, but there was another word in there, too, which puzzles me.
She has "harpic"?
Is Harpic not a disinfectant or a cleaner or something?
Harpic can mean " mad"?
It is not in my Chambers.

Excuse butting in http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=harpic

Welcome, Eirlys!
You are certainly not "butting in" !
Everyone is welcome on this thread. It is good to have your contribution.
I've never heard of "harpic" used in the context of being "mad".
I learn something new every day!

Thank youElle. The joke is said to have originated in the RAF in 1930 or so and surfaced again ca.1945 after the harpic adverts used the slogan

Hello, Eirlys!
Thank you for the explanation!
I must admit I like all these oddities in the language, though in this case it was completely new to me.
Well done!

Seamus,thanks for the 'disgruntlement' info. I'm quite happy not to have made it up!