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Levied Troop wrote:I blame gay marriage.

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Windy and wet here. No where near as bad as other places mind you. Probably because its relatively flat so blows on past until it slaps into something with mor contours. Still its no fun using webbed feet when the current is so strong .......

Snowing now... Still, the wind has dropped...

Bright sunshine this morning and no real damage overnight, just a little tidying up.

But now as black as a pot and kettle down a coal mine. Hardly worth washing the windows for.

Take care, friends.

My shed collapsed last night. I have only just noticed, and the rain is now pissing down on whatever it is we keep in there. I can't remember exactly, as I've had a tendency to avoid sheds since becoming a member here...

As a couple northern islanders, my other half and I like to mock you southern softies and the way everything blows away at the slightest gust of wind.

That said, now I live in a house surrounded by very large trees I do occasionally find myself waking up in the middle of the night, rather alarmed by the noise of the wind battering through their branches.

I used to live just up the road from you in Oban (that's highlands-and-islands just-up-the-road, so about an hour's drive...) and it did get a little bit windy, but it was hard to tell through the rain, and the fact that we were permanently frozen. I'm convinced the battered Mars bar was invented as the only possible way to get calories in faster than you burned them!

Andrew Rae wrote:As a couple northern islanders, my other half and I like to mock you southern softies and the way everything blows away at the slightest gust of wind.

That said, now I live in a house surrounded by very large trees I do occasionally find myself waking up in the middle of the night, rather alarmed by the noise of the wind battering through their branches.

Saw a very large tree blown down across/through a substantial wall this morning, bet the folk who own the adjacent house were shit up when it went.

None of this fusses us Eastern dwellers. What is a bit of water to those who spend most of their life up to their ankles in it anyway?

Funny day today. Started off cold and sharp, burst into a warm sunny day, still damp underfoot and then has got harsh again this evening. Rain stopped, just dark and cold. Will make footy later interesting.