Monday 13.01.2020

Arrived home from work as the skies darkened and Storm Brendan arrived so donned a million extra layers and dragged the dogs around the bounds to savour the wildness of it. Wonderful, knock-you-off-your-feet gusts and the first drops of rain not "dropping" at all but spitting furiously onto cheeks and forehead. Glad to be back in by the fire now but can still hear the trees thrashing about outside: not that ferocious compared with a true hurricane but exhilarating nevertheless.