A couple of weeks ago, I did the evening chores, strolled up to the top of the hill, enjoyed the sunset and muttered about how annoying it was to find my fractured wrist ruled out photography with the dSLR. I started to do the same thing the following day, only to be stopped in my [...]
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Tag Archives: wind
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!
8 December, 2011
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We’re firmly into the storm season now although the media appears to think today’s winds are something unusual with their focus on ‘huge’ waves, hurricane winds and people who ‘can’t remember the last time it was this bad’. How about last winter? Wind speed is around 50mph, with gusts to 70mph. It is dangerous outside, [...]
Read moreNow we have ‘our’ winter weather
29 January, 2010
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We’ve had heavy snow and we’ve had temperatures below -10C on a fair number of days this winter, but until today we haven’t had what I’d describe as our typical winter weather. For us, typical winter weather has to combine snow, sub-zero temperatures and a whacking great wind. So, it was quite good to get [...]
Read moreBlown away
25 February, 2009
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We’re being buffeted by a fresh gale* tonight, which made driving into the village to collect the Big Lad from Cubs somewhat exciting. When we arrived home, he darted inside with his sausage supper (takeaway is his post-Cubs treat every few weeks) while I went out to the hill to check the animals. I had [...]
Read moreBlowin’ a hoolie
23 October, 2008
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Our winter gales are definitely upon us. I took a couple up the hill to look at one of our sows just before 6pm—and they were struggling to stay upright, as were the pigs. A check of the UK wind map showed we were probably getting gusts of around 50mph at the time. I’d been [...]
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