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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    What's all this wind and rain complaining about? It's bright blue skies with a light breeze here today. I even saw the first bumblebee of the year, a tree bumblebee oddly. 
    Our council invested in special recycling trucks that allow the stuff to be sorted as they go. I've noticed though that since the lockdowns started they've had to send an extra van around just to collect the glass and cardboard. Such is the boom in home deliveries and alcoholism I suppose :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've never realised how little I can do with just one hand. :'(
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    @Hostafan1, I can probably do less, with 2.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    punkdoc said:
    @Hostafan1, I can probably do less, with 2.
    sending Hugs to you .
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    One handed? Surely a hug
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    What's all this wind and rain complaining about? It's bright blue skies with a light breeze here today. I even saw the first bumblebee of the year, a tree bumblebee oddly. 
    Our council invested in special recycling trucks that allow the stuff to be sorted as they go. I've noticed though that since the lockdowns started they've had to send an extra van around just to collect the glass and cardboard. Such is the boom in home deliveries and alcoholism I suppose :#

    I was wondering what all the fuss about the wind a few days ago was all about too until I spoke to my next door neighbour yesterday.  His house catches the prevailing winds and he lost 6 roof tiles this time round.  In the past he's lost ridge tiles on two occasions.  It was one of his ridge tiles which came through our conservatory roof and convinced me to replace the roof with a solid one.  He is now getting a roofer in to check his whole roof.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    This is what wind can do @KT53, just one 2 minute tornado during Storm Alex last October

    Before:

    After:

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    😟
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We've had more gales and storms since and there are just beams left on the left side.   Time to take another photo.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    That's bad Obelixx.  I went out to look at the neighbours roof earlier.  It is actually the hip tiles which have blown off rather than the roof tiles.  That means the whole lot have come off in the last 3 storms.  First time was the ridge tiles - most of which buried themselves in our front lawn, then the rear hip - one of which came through our conservatory roof, and now the front hip which landed in their front lawn although one apparently ended up just a couple of inches from his car.
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