Where to begin, what a day! Hard to believe I was walking along the sea front in the sun yesterday, even though the wind was cold it was lovely. The wind during the night was very wild, not that that in itself is unusual up here. At about 4 am I came to with a start because there was a massive bang. Sounded a bit like thunder but too abrupt and anyway there wasn't a storm in progress. I really thought perhaps the chimney had been blow off or something but didn't hear anything breaking after the bang. When I got up and looked out of the bedroom window it was obvious what I had heard. Darren's very large shed was upended on the lawn!

Not a clear picture as the outsides of my windows don't get cleaned! Darren is there by the door, but everything is twisted, and anyway the weather has remained wet and windy for the day so not much we can do until things settle down. A couple of plant pots with my tamarix tree and some lavender are underneath there somewhere! Another picture from downstairs.

Darren had to put his car in for repair today and Tina was driving to the garage to bring him home. I needed to go into town to collect something so she dropped me off on the way. Walking back the wind was bitter, time to get the gloves out. Darren said that a car up on Columbus Ravine had been damaged by a falling tree, so I went up to have a look.

The wind kept blowing and it rained on and off, then it began to hail and it was settling to add insult to injury!

Then it began to snow and that has settled. It has stopped now but it hasn't thawed yet.

I have been finishing off another snowflake decoration which now seems to have been a most appropriate pass time.

Needless to say I didn't go out on the bike today but did get it insured! Mike is due to come up tomorrow so hope the weather improves a bit.