Sacha wrote:

How's everyone else faring? We have had what were forecast as gales but
must be storm force at least in the gusts. In fact, we closed the Nursery
at 3pm because several panes of glass have crashed in on the little
conservatory and just as 3 customers walked down the big double greenhouse,
a huge guest of wind made the whole thing expand and contract and a pane of
glass crashed to the floor from about 17 feet up.

Oops stiff gardener's thumbs or should that be gardener's stiff thumbs. What I
meant to say was, yes I experienced that kind of thing when working in the prop
unit at the rose nursery, evening overtime usually when the wind would get up
and stuff would start flying arount the nursery and the sound of breaking glass
in the darkness. Frightening. We had our weather here on Wednesday afternoon -
a squall swept in from the north west, straight down the Irish sea. We were in
the middle of felling a tree on the exposed northern edge of the garden. We got
the full blast of horizontal sleet/snow freezing on the trees as it landed. It
only lasted about an hour but by the time we had the tree down and everthing
packed up we were soaked. Stupid weather we've had 11C today, wind is not bad -
around 5 I suppose.
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