Them as is still up and about and not Twellsy or joe, get battening those hatches. This Eleanor seems to have a bit of oomph. Stairrods here but not much wind to speak of yet. I suspect that will change during the night.
Twellsy and joe, hope you and associated livestock are all OK.
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Talking of taking refuge in the Cellar, as we wereâŚ
I have taken down the Birdy Palace before the wind can do it for us.
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Worst of it seems to have passed us by. A bit blowy earlier, but seems to have calmed down. As for the chooks, latest Poultry Report about to be postedâŚ
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I woz right. Not sustained wind, but Buffetty Gusts. Ooerr.
I suspect the morrow will bring A Mother, Entirely Surrounded By Water, in other words A Navy. Oh, no, my mistake, thatâs An Army, Entirely, etc, mâlud. Actually, there were times in her heyday when it would have been hard to tell the difference, tbhâŚ
When I say surrounded, that is what I mean. She might be trapped in the village but the maternal dwelling per se will not flood. Or if it does, I doubt many of the rest of us will be around to worry about very much anyway.
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Reminds me of my old place in Upton Park. Yes, it might get flooded, but only after all of Docklands was distinctly soggy.
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Flood warning here . High tide with an onshore wind means itâs likely to be wettish underfoot in Bristol. I foresee lots of geese and ducks whizzing along on the fast flowing river having fun.
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A charming thought, but can you actually distinguish between âWeyhey! This is grand!â and âHeeeeelp! Slimbridge is where my heart is!â in Duck or, as it might be, in Goose?
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Sabrina doesnât actually flow through Bristol, just at one edge. The little cousin she calls âRiverâ and we call the Avon flows conveniently through the Centre and sometimes gets a little frisky, but these days since they fitted the storm drains you can usually get along at least the landward side of the PortwayâŚ
which is why we lived near Clifton Down, a couple of hundred feet above it all.
Meanwhile, a bit closer than London, I was woken fifteen minutes ago by the mighty gust of wind which blew all the doors open upstairs, and came down to close the door into the house in the cellar which I sorta kinda assumed must be the reason for it all; only it wasnât open, so the wind howling up the stairwell must have been coming from somewhere else. And now I am Awake. The wind has died down completely, but I shall have a milky drink before I try to go back to sleep.
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Pore wakeful Fish. I have decided to embrace the Insomnia Fairy and am wallowing in Songs of Travel. The Innocuous One is probably sleeping like a baby - well, we hope a bit more restrainedly than that, of course - and I hope he doesnât miss her. Him. It. Glittery little flitterer it is, and most annoying.
Lakeland must do fairy-swatters. If they donât now, they will come next Lady Day ;- )
Efficaciousness to the Milky Drink. OHâs GP - way before he was OH - recommended a malt drink and he said he was taking at least a quarter bottle already. She went quite sour at that point, he maintainedâŚ
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Oh Hedgers, how gallant.
This morning, though, it is more âLady Cabstanleigh blown off courseâ.
When not playing cards in the skool library, for which I was Done (sign of gross moral turpitude apparently, particularly when the culprit protests âbut it wasnât for money*â) I was enjoying Beachcomber. In my defence, I was young.
*now that was a fun letter of apology to have to show to oneâs parents
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Eleanor still frisking around here
Limerick in the South got fludded
Likewise Galway to the North
l was meant to be exercising my free rail travel to go to Galway today
When there were reports of cars floating around the car park of one station on the line I think it to be silly to try to go shopping in M&S saleâŚ
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Take yer coracle (you must have a coracle) and laugh at 'em?
A bit of wind today, but sunny, and no sign of damage overnight â though I see from That Fish that things got a bit frisky. (I slept through it all.)
yardarm
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Eleanor has gone
Wonder what the next one will be called?
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I suppose that you can look it up
It has turned very cold here, after blowing the proverbial Hoolie for hours & hours
Did we hear how the Air-Fryer Taters went, or have I missed it ?
I arsk, because 1 of the people on NYE was talking about an Soup Maker, which they havenât yet tried, & it provoked a lively discussion
Carinthia.xx
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Fionn.
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Point of Information: Fionn is what it will be named; it will be called lots of things (most of them unprintable)
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Sorry - so much going on over the last couple of weeks that it slipped my mind. Excellent results when parboiled briefly, left to cool, drizzled with oil then put on for about 30 mins. Donât do too many at once, or cut them too big - thereâs limited headroom so thereâs a danger of burning. If using olive oil, a I did, you need to be fairly generous with it as itâs quite volatile.
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The visitors had one in their home in France ( a done up over the years wreck), & 1 in their rather smart motorhome. Used them for many different things.
2 of my neighbours on the campsite have them & use them every day. I was very popular when I gave them my spray-on Sunflower Oil, which is, apparently, Perfick
Carinthia.xx
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A sort of culinary Ambre Solaire, is it? Which would make vinegar some class of After-Sun. oooow! perhaps not, thenâŚ
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How is that Bee faring? One worries.
I hope all poorlies, very much including That Spadger and its back, are finding themselves a little better than yesterday.
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