I awoke around 6:30 to the sounds of high winds and driving rain,a great start to the day. I looked out of the window a spotted my recycle bag of plastic and cardboard on its side with the contents strewn all over the front garden. My first job of the day was to don waterproofs grab an old pair of gardening gloves and sally forth to recover it all. I brought the bag back into the shelter of the little alcove and left it until I heard the recycle lorry coming and took it to an extremely wet and windblown young man loading up. Despite that fact he still had a few more hours to do he was extremely cheerful. He told me to go back inside and he would bring the bag and the container for glass and cans down and stow them for me. A pleasant young fella.
We have this weather until the early hours of tomorrow according to the Met office,Oh goody. The temps are around 0c feeling like -4c in the chilly wind and expected to drop more. Not a day for a stroll on the beach.
Stay safe folks