Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

Lovely Alfie.

Someone left a gate open to the field - I know we have right to roam, but I do wish they'd shut the gate.

Heaven's just opened & it's hammering it down with rain.

alfie_1

it is scary here ! wind is horrendous and bellowing ,,, rain in amongst it..
seriously the worst storm so far this winter... gonna be some damage done tonight I think !

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

it is scary here ! wind is horrendous and bellowing ,,, rain in amongst it..
seriously the worst storm so far this winter... gonna be some damage done tonight I think !

Your area was forecast to get the worst of Katie, I think. Here, she's just a windy night so far.....

The cattle look like Charolais....?

Fay

Very windy here all night and this morning. I have a photinia that is about 11 or 12 foot hugh and I can see the wind rocking it so much I can see the roots lifting te earth around it although it was here when I moved in and I've had it 6 years, it may need steaking?

Davesnave

Staking would have to be very substantial to cope with a full grown 11' bush, Fay. I think reduction might be more successful, and then perhaps careful positioning of other shrubs to provide more of a windbreak?

Through a telephone call which came to us by mistake, two numbers in a notebook being juxtaposed, we've discovered that Horse Woman was involved in an accident. She is fine. The car is many miles away....

Who knows, it could all be for the best longer term, but I do feel sorry for her. To lose her companion of 35 years and her transport within a month...:(

We'll have to see how best we can help, but she's very independent. :undecided

Blue sky and 'normal' here. It was a bit hairy around 5 am.

I_have_spoken

Hardly a breath of wind here, 1st Atlantic depression of the winter which hasn't hit us :j

I'm going to move an acer into a pot, it's never done well where it's planted; to be replaced with a mahonia and that place will be taken by a self-seeded holly and the snowdrops. :cool:

choille

The Loch is a silver mirror - mill pond.

DaftyDuck

Several trees down across the lane, so out at dawn in the wind and rain.... Came from the other side, and they are not mine! Whoo hoo . :D Pulled them out of the way, but no need to chop them up, as they belong to the big posh estate.

Back for coffee. Power is off! :mad::mad:

Equines all out in the fields, completely untroubled, so off to hug a donkey. They are so cuddly.

alfie_1

oh boy that was a gale !! it rocked the house. we [the whole area]lost all power at midnight and back on at 6 tonight ..
I had to retrieve my garden chairs/table from the field next door...
luckily the field shelters stayed put but one lady lost hers ...well it flipped over and landed on its roof ...
trees , branches, "objects" flying around ...
all calm now but raining just started.
105mph recorded off the needles [which is sort of across from us to the right ]

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

oh boy that was a gale !!

Just ol' Mother Nature evening things up a bit, as she probably thought you'd had it easy this winter.....:p

Mind you, during the really hairy bit, for about two hours, it was as bad as anything we've had from all the A - J storms here. Things rattled and banged that hadn't done so before, or not as much, but what can one do, except creep further under the bedding?

Alternating heavy rain and bright sunshine all day today, so constantly switching jobs and not getting much done!