It was snowing quite heavily here when I was padding about at 2.30am but it's all gone now. Weather warning for wind today but not much in evidence just now.
Hazel - I'm so sorry to hear about your disturbed night - I think your area and further north had the worst of it. Hopefully any damage to your garden is fairly easy to repair but it's disheartening and upsetting to experience it. Fingers crossed your roof and the rest of your house is ok.
My little cottage bore the brunt of that 1987 storm. I'd just got married and was 200 miles away when it hit. Remember waking up and turning on the breakfast news to see Nicholas Witchell broadcasting from what appeared to be the BBC war bunker talking about 'the situation in London' 'no transport links' 'wide spread loss of power and communications' etc etc. For about 5 minutes I genuinely thought the bomb had dropped and we were at war!
My poor cottage suffered damage to the roof and garden and it was the night before I was due to exchange contracts selling it. So that didn't happen.
Hope everyone else stayed safe & well.
Oops wrote that 2 hrs ago & forgot to post - again!
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
We've just been to the farmers market in the village hall. I bought a pheasant, veg, raspberies, bread, cake and a pork pie. We had breakfast there, coffee and bacon rolls. Now home and having more coffee and a slice of carrot cake.
Watching the TV news, depressing.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
The 1987 storm (Michael Fish's famous non-hurricane hurricane) only really affected the south and east of England Hazel. It was just a tad breezy everywhere else. My cottage was on the Norfolk coast but I'd been living in York for 2 months by then.
We weren't affected by the wind at all in York which was why I had no idea of what had happened when I switched on the news the next morning. My old neighbour in Norfolk said that the noise of the wind was terrifying (like you said). She opened the windows on one side of the house because she genuinely thought the force of the wind would blow them in if she didn't.
Nature reminds us who's in charge every once in a while....
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Good grief T'Bird, what an absolute nightmare for you at that time. Perhaps it was just as well you weren't IN your cottage when all that was happening. I am still waiting to hear from my sister in Co. Durham to see how she has fared in all of this.
As for Nature reminding us of who is in charge, I think that every time the tip of a mare's tail pokes its way through the council's new tarmacadam footpaths near me.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Hazel I haven’t ventured out yet I went back to bed and had 8 hours sleep. I’ll check on things tomorrow, very dark out. Sorry to hear about your garden. I hope it can be sorted and you get the arch down safely. Try to rest. LB I hope you and Lily are okay after last night. It was rather wild. We still have snow here, the heatings on and I’m having a cuppa.
I've heard from my youngest sister. She went to work today but they had to close down Hardwick Park (where I was born 27 years ago before it became the country park it is today) where she works as loads of the trees had come down. She passed 3 down on her way to work. She says that they have just had a light dusting of snow. I'm always relieved when I know they are fine.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
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It was snowing quite heavily here when I was padding about at 2.30am but it's all gone now. Weather warning for wind today but not much in evidence just now.
Hazel - I'm so sorry to hear about your disturbed night - I think your area and further north had the worst of it. Hopefully any damage to your garden is fairly easy to repair but it's disheartening and upsetting to experience it. Fingers crossed your roof and the rest of your house is ok.
My little cottage bore the brunt of that 1987 storm. I'd just got married and was 200 miles away when it hit. Remember waking up and turning on the breakfast news to see Nicholas Witchell broadcasting from what appeared to be the BBC war bunker talking about 'the situation in London' 'no transport links' 'wide spread loss of power and communications' etc etc. For about 5 minutes I genuinely thought the bomb had dropped and we were at war!
My poor cottage suffered damage to the roof and garden and it was the night before I was due to exchange contracts selling it. So that didn't happen.
Oops wrote that 2 hrs ago & forgot to post - again!
Watching the TV news, depressing.
We weren't affected by the wind at all in York which was why I had no idea of what had happened when I switched on the news the next morning. My old neighbour in Norfolk said that the noise of the wind was terrifying (like you said). She opened the windows on one side of the house because she genuinely thought the force of the wind would blow them in if she didn't.
Nature reminds us who's in charge every once in a while....