Blown Away!

 

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to a windy edition of My Scribbles. I hadn`t intended to do a mid week entry but after today`s mini hurricane I thought I`d write a few words about it. As most of my British friends know today has been awful weather-wise, with torrential rain and gale force  winds battering our small islands.

The poor garden centre has really taken a beating, apart from the fact that we had hardly any customers ( who can blame people for not venturing out). Shrubs and trees have been blown over, fences have been blown down as well as there being some damage to the roof of the shop. It was quite scary I can tell you. After work I made a detour to avoid some of the country roads but it led me into a police roadblock and I was diverted back the way I originally tried to avoid. I had to drive around fallen trees and branches and a least once something dropped onto my car, nothing big but it was worrying at the time. The reason for the diversion isn`t yet clear but I think that a tree had fallen on a car because the road was completely shut and an ambulance and a fire engine went hurtling in that direction. I do hope nobody was injured or worse.

When I arrived home all our dustbins were strewn about in the road so put ours back before I parked in the drive. I chatted with our neighbour about the damage caused and he noticed he`d lost several roof tiles so I thought I`d better check ours were still intact. Once in the back garden I was greeted to the sight of a junk yard at the bottom of the garden..........the gales had ripped through our fence panels pulling quite a few of them down and damaging beyond repair many more. I knew I couldn`t leave them like that so I got into work mode and set about clearing up. I stacked all the broken wood behind the garden shed and moved the less broken panels to a safer position. I cleared the flower beds of our once smart BBQ, now a bent and dirty lump of metal and cleared up what debris had found its way into our garden. It still looks awful out there but at least I`ve done my good deed for the day. Now poor Jim has to finish the job tomorrow morning AND buy new fence panels, though not for a while yet!  At least I can get him discount on them at work. Oh yes, we DID`NT lose any roof tiles so I suppose that`s something.

It`s still very windy out but it has died down and I`m hoping it will have completely quietened down by morning and we can have a more settled day to recover. Anyway, I must dash after this brief entry, Good night to you all. :o)