We're jittery too @Guernsey Donkey2 as we have a line of council planted trees the other side of our boundary, including two very tall 50 yr old birches. It's been blowing a hooley here all day with heavy rain but at least we're not on the South coast, I see from the news that most of the ferries have been cancelled, Bournemouth Pier closed and flooding at Christchurch. 109 mph winds at the Needles, IOW recorded as well.
We went down to about 2ºC last night, even colder the night before. We aren't going to have any more night time freezes below 12ºC for a week or so, so I will be able to go out and uncover my plants for awhile. They'll be happy.
We've had more very heavy rain and gales in Dordogne. I wanted to go up the drive, 1km long, this morning to get some bits from the village shop, post my bills and empty the dustbins - no individual bin collection here. But a tree had blow down across the drive. I rang a few local farmers to remove it but they were all out except one who said he couldn't come. He rang after lunch to say he'd done it. Relief.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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So much rain yesterday we had to stop using downstairs wc and water would drain out of sink , now ok
Lincoln