Sorry to all of you who have real cause for concern, have no power or who are suffering in other ways as a result of the storm.
I have been hiding indoors. I thought I'd secured most things outside last night, and parked the car well away from trees etc. However, a gate flew off its hinges and smashed into the back of the vehicle this morning
Fortunately, have insurance- but the excess will still cost me well over £100.....
To cheer me up the underwriters told me that someone else fortunate enough to have a garage (where he carefully put his car yesterday in anticipation of the bad weather) was unlucky enough to be close to a nearby tree. This was uprooted, and it smashed into the garage, which collapsed on to the car.
Nobody hurt, thankfully. But I suspect his bill will be more than a couple of hundred pounds....