On Mar 3, 5:30*pm, Sacha wrote:
It has been the most *awful* day here - howling gale and lashing rain all
day since about 11am. *It's still going on now. *We seem to get at least one
of these as soon as the poor old rooks are completing their nests, sometimes
after they've got chicks, too and heaven only knows what goes through their
minds as they get hurled about the tree tops. *Amazingly, we had some hardy
customers in today - they really must be the dedicated gardening types! *I
hope others have had a rather more pleasant day and that his blows off, out
to sea pdq!

Here on the East Coast it has been a lovely day, as usual. Not a lot
of sunshine but I have been out in the garden planting raspberry canes
and unearthing some delphinium plants that got missed last year - they
are just beginning to shoot - now where shall I put them....? Oh yes
and in the windless day yesterday I burned the old growth on the
pampas plumes.