Scary weather

A thousand trees uprooted at Killhope, not 500.

Text a friend this morning to make sure she was ok in Gosport after hurricane force winds in the silent last night............I discovered she and DH are currently sunning themselves in Egypt !

My mum used to tell the tale of the floods of 1953 when she opened the bedroom curtains to see a swan swimming down the street. She walked to the bathroom then it registered what she had seen and she had to go back for a second look

Solent

Passenger killed on the Marco Polo

DD2 OK in Gosport. They went to HMS Nelson's Valentines' Ball so she reckons she was suffering from alcoholic amnesia this morning as she doesn't remember much about the storm!!

We had a very wild night. Not much sleep and we were relieved to find very little damage this morning. The chickens were wandering around the garden looking a bit dazed as the back door to their coop had blown outwards.

Much calmer now and a red sky this evening!

Incredible sky over Bristol Channel. Even the water looked red!

Dgd and 21 of her school friends plus teachers are spending a night at Heathrow when they should have been in Italy on a ski-ing trip. Should be flying out tomorrow morning.The upside is they are in the Hilton and seem to be enjoying the experience.

Living in a 'mobile' home, I'm terrified that it will either blow away or float away!
But today is sunshine and calm.

I spent the last week in Dundee where we only saw the reports of the horrendous weather 'Down South'. We had some rain, quite high wind, but also sunshine - in other words, normal February weather for which, I imagine, family and friends in the South would be enormously grateful.

Such a lovely. day today!

Yes, lovely day here too. However we have discovered that thanks to the recent high winds we will have to replace 2 fence panels, their posts have snapped off and they have great holes in [they didn't have before!]it's our responsibility, so will have to cough up.

Spent most of today repairing damaged fences and a pergola arch which is now held together with cable ties!! Only lost one pane of glass in the small greenhouse but the large one is another story

Wonderful to have a good night's sleep followed by a day of calm.