WIND !!!!!!!!

Today turned out to be some day! We have had severe gales for the most of the day, which has left the garden looking like a battle zone, and the cats highly unsettled ( apart from Lily, who has the benefit of hormones to keep her calm), and my youngest child highly excited! Sitting here tonight, I feel a wave of tiredness sweeping over me, and I am glad that the weekend is now not far away.

I had to keep the shed door shut for the poor bunny, as I could not risk her being exposed to the elements, she was cosy in her hutch with her heated pad.

Then the wind REALLY got up. Gollum was running around the house, like a demon possessed, grumbling, and generally very agitated. He was also desparate for a fuss and reassurance. We have a partially, well, we HAD, built outdoor cat run in the garden.........not any more.....we have a collapsed and rather broken partially built can run in the back garden. I tried to shore it up with various articles, but the wind was too strong. And in the end, I just had to go in, closed the curtains so that I could not watch, and then cringed when I opened them up an hour later. So it now lays in tatters in the back garden, and me trying to explain to the cats, that it looks like they are going to have to wait a bit longer still, to get outside in it!

The wind was sooo strong, that it was also trying to wrench some of my year old bushes from the front garden, and I found myself battling to support them, with large heavy stones. I hadn't really engaged brain at this point, as I was trying to achieve all this in a skirt.....

The cats are just extra lively today, Gollum is still running around like a wild beast, and the chicken that I cooked yesterday is almost eaten up, so I must buy another one tomorrow.......

My oldest son had his parents evening this evening, that at least put a smile on my face, as the parting comment from his IT teacher was,

"well, who couldn't like Richard"

The photo today, I took just a little earlier, I had poured some red wine out, into a retsina glass, to warm it up, and Gollum was taking an interest in it, it made me smile, so I got the camera out!