Stormy weather

Thanks to Storm Eunice, the rather dilapidated remainder of the corrugated plastic roof over the end bit of our back garden between the end of the garage block and next door's fence is no more. It managed to take several bricks and the rather substantial timber the guttering was attached to with it, but by some miracle didn't actually hit someone's car that was parked out the back. Getting something done with the now entirely roofless space will cost a bit of money, but not nearly as much as paying to fix a car that has had a solid beam dropped on its roof, or even contesting a claim for same.

Other than that we appear to have got off lightly. We had a brief power failure in the morning (only about a minute, but long enough to knock the router out so it took me ten minutes to get back online and into my meeting), but all our fences are still standing and the only other damage I could see from the windows was one wheelie bin on its side. I was very glad that we live in a mid-terrace house which was sideways on to the wind, though.

The forecast for the weekend is still looking pretty windy, even if nothing like today, so we're erring on the side of caution and planning not to swim. Which is a shame, though on the other hand, it means I can just stay in bed all weekend if I want...