Stormy weather

I wonder what’s causing it? Perhaps someone will discover the cause of our climate becoming increasingly intemperate (and then we can do something about it…).

Today it’s the calm after the storm, as we walk the lanes we trod just three days ago – but what a difference! Darragh, it was, who brought down hundreds of trees in the woods around Shirlett and Willey. Mostly conifers, in woodland that had recently been thinned, some snapped off at mid-height, but some deciduous too, including one much-admired roadside oak. Out in the fields, lone trees fared much better – we could see just one dead tree felled. It will be some time before the mess is cleared and the gaps begin to be filled.