Stormy Weather.

I cannot believe that this storm, which raged all evening, through the night and still continues has not been given an official storm name.

Yesterday while I lay on my mat in class (we were doing a stretch class with some Pilates exercises thrown in) over the ambient music I could hear much roaring and hammering. Indeed I thought the music had a waterfall or thunder component but it was just the rain and wind on the metal roof. I did keep my eyes on the roof to check that there wasn't any untoward movement. Which there wasn't though the back doors blew open at one point.

By the time I got home I found the lid to the water butt had blown off, luckily only to the other side of the road, and in just a few hours the extra large water butt had filled to the brim.

This morning it was just as wet and windy (my in-house sea dog Pete reckons 40-50mph.) which was not the best thing for recycling day. Most people put their re-cycling out in the council issued plastic bags but those wouldn't have stood a chance. Even my plastic tub with three heavy terazzo tiles and then another two inside began to blow away down the road forcing me to put it by the side of the porch instead of out on the pavement. 

At least it hasn't rained so much during the day but the wind has not stopped and is howling and whistling around the house even now. In the photo below those white blobs are a sea foam blizzard being blown right up beside the house. 

 

Once the tide had turned and there was some sand to walk on I wrapped up well and took myself off for a beach walk. I knew it would be windy and possibly wet so I was fully dressed in waterproofs but I hadn't realised just how cold the wind was. As I walked one way up the beach one side of my face turned to ice in the chilly north-westerly wind and then the other side froze as I came back along the beach.

I haven't done much else today though I will be off to choir tonight. I did a stint on the exercise bike and thought I would work on my Welsh by watching S4C with Welsh subtitles. A good idea but not when the subtitles lagged a couple of sentences behind the words being spoken. Instead I indulged in a few episodes of The Other Bennet Sister.