Weather

[exile]

Thanks for that LAF. Winds beginning to pick up now. I will await the morning to review the damage since the worst will be overnight.

[Veem]

Broken fence posts and tape down here too and the horses have clearly been across it because they've left their unmistakable evidence. We've secured it all but given them access to another large piece of the paddock. As you said LAF, repairing fencing and trying to hang on to tape in the strong winds was near impossible.

So far, we know we have two very mature oaks down.

[rockfish]

Glad to see the back of Diego here. Sometime ago we lost the chapeau from the chimney of our gas central heating boiler. We did get a quote for replacing it that came in at just over 1000€ which included the price of hiring a cherry picker to get up there, it is a high pitched roof on 3 storeys. Needless to say we declined but whenever the wind gets up it blows the boiler out. Diego did just that, but then it wouldn't resart, so a day and a bit without heat or hot water. Eventually nice boiler man came and reset it and now the wind has gone away we can cross that one off the worry list.
We are now looking again at replacing the chapeau by someone who uses ladders.

[suein56]

Sometime ago we lost the chapeau from the chimney of our gas central heating boiler.
We are now looking again at replacing the chapeau by someone who uses ladders.

When our chapeau blew away a few years ago (we found it in the depths of the garden) we tried everyone we could think of to replace it with no luck.
Eventually it was our chimney sweep who came to the rescue.
His solution .. clean our flue from the top down and then securely fix the chapeau back in place.
Extra cost to usual from the bottom up clean was negligible.

[Doug]

Drove back a bit early from Arcachon due to the threatening storm.
Bad winds here yesterday pm, now very calm, next to no rain over night only 1mm but had 11mm here whilst away.

[Spectrum]

Wrecked the new poly tunnel so had to do a botch up repair job, also phones out all day Saturday, today -2 and sunny.

[manonthemoon2]

A bright day, no rain but again pretty windy. Fed up with the wind

[L Austin France]

Thunder, lightning & lots of much needed rain

[Char]

After a week of sunshine and warmth, we now have rain and cold brrr

[Blaze]

We had beautiful weather all last week, a little rain overnight and dull this morning but bright, sunny and warm this afternoon.