General Chat

Good morning all. I hope the weather is a bit calmer where you are. It is 7 degrees here at 0820 but very dark and raining hard. bin day today hoping they don't blow over. The recycling bins are very light.

I am glad that you have coped with your day Joan <3

Well done Joan, I suppose that we have no option but to cope, even if we are sad. <3

Hello to everyone,
THANKYOU soo much to you all for your kind words & thoughts.
I'm ok, sad but coping, our daughter spent the morning with me so that has helped.

Joan.

Joan sending love and huggs <3 <3 <3

Joan, thinking of you and the family today and so glad you wont be on your own <3

Joan <3

It is good that your daughter will spend some time with you today. <3

Joan will think of you Monday. Not a good time for me either, it will be 4 years on Wednesday since my lovely OH died. some days I am not sure it does get any easier, I still miss him terribly.

I'm so glad to hear that everyone got through this storm with no or little damage, and no power cuts.

Joan .............. my love to you for Monday <3 <3 <3

We'll be thinking about you on Monday, Joan.

If it's any slight comfort - the first year is always the worst. It does gradually get easier after that.

This is a depressing time of year in any case. Roll on Spring!
More daylight, and things growing in the garden.

Thanks to everyone for your welcoming words.

I don't have much to chat about at the moment due to the time of year, the garden is looking drab just now but it's just too dark & cold to get out there to do anything, I noticed today that there are some branches of all sizes scattered around but not lifting them until we get some better weather.

Monday is going to be a really sad & difficult day as it will be 1 year since I lost jack, can you believe it's a year, where does the time go, our daughter is coming over to mine for a wee while.

Joan.

Oh boy!!

Here comes hailstones and snow eeeeek

Hi Joan
Glad to hear from you and that you survived the storm intact except for the bird tables.

Im so glad for you too that you didn't loses power!

Hope fully the worse has passed now and as Gwyn says, the days are stretching now and the mornings brighter so wont be long until Spring.

Glad everyone else is safe & well and looks like we all survived without any damage to our properties.

Take care and keep warm <3

Florence in the hebrides

Good to see you on here Joan, I did think of you and the others who were in the firing line for the worst of the storm. It must be frightening for you and I am pleased that you came through it. Leave the other bird tables down until it is a bit milder, no point in getting cold.

Stay in touch we like to hear from you. And I too hate the long dark nights.
It will soon be snowdrop time. <3

So good to see you posting Joan <3

What a bonus that your power stayed on, but I'm sorry that the wild weather makes you so frightened. It must have been awful, especially in the dark, when you can't see what's happening to make the loud noises. :-| :-|

Already I'm noticing that the afternoons are lighter longer and it gets light earlier in the morning, so hopefully it won't be long until we see a real difference.
Like you, I will be pleased when that happens :-D

Hello to everyone on the thread, so glad to hear everyone is doing ok & have got through the storm intact.

Once again the storm saw me very worried, I have never liked the high winds even when hubby was here but now that I am on my own I get really scared.
Yesterday it was quite windy through the day but I thought we were going to get away with anything more serious, however as it started to get dark last night the winds picked up into something much more serious, the banging against the front windows was horrendous & I had visions of the glass breaking & I fully expected the power to go off but actually stayed on which was a blessing.

Today it is less windy, all my bird tables have been blown over & I managed to pick up 2 of them but it is soo cold I gave up.

I'm still finding life difficult without Jack, but I try to busy myself with vrious things, night time is the worst time, the long dark nights are really difficult, looking forward to when we change the clocks & the nights will stay lighter for longer.

My love to all looking in, take care of yourselves.

Joan.

Morning all
Sleepless night as torrential rain and then the wind picked up again!

Its now very stormy still here and has been snowing in the next village!!

Shelves are empty in the shops and ferries are on amber so may not sail again.

Glad you didnt lose power AG, neither did we so very lucky.

Stay safe all and keep warm.

Florence in the hebrides

I feel extremely lucky not to have lost power, nor to have suffered any damage.

Many parts of Scotland still have no power, and some won't have it back until Monday or even later.

I'm glad everyone else on here is OK - at least I'm assuming Joan is.
I can see from the PowerTrack map that her area does have electricity today.

We have the storm in full force just now, quite horrendous but we have power.
AG glad your power stayed on!

Hope those of you in the red area don’t have any damage. Pleased you have stayed safe. Hope that continues. It has just been very breezy here and 10 degrees but nowhere near as bad as forecast.