Saturday

 Sorry no photos - after all the excitement of Storm Austen, today turned out to be much worse here in West Cornwall.

Lots of people in the area are still without power and to make matters worse it rained all day until around 5pm and the wind has been gusting over 70mph out at Gwennap Head. I went to Morrison's and it was horrendous trying to walk in the wind and torrential rain. Jim took Maisie to the field a couple of times when the rain lessened to drizzle briefly. Do hope everyone gets their power back soon, and thankyou to the teams of workers out in this terrible weather trying to sort it all out. 

Friday

 Storm Austen certainly lived up to all the hype. Not too windy until at around 5pm wham! massive gusts of wind - but now from the NW Largest gust at Gwennap Head was 94mph but NJCI Stepper Point Padstow had a gust of 111mph

Jim took Maisie down to the field for a brief visit

Later on when the wind had lessened a bit he decided that she really wanted another walk so off they went

Afternoon walkies with Nick - still windy !

Bunny appreciating the new growth of grass

Thursday

 

Fun and games

Not a bad morning

Sea was very noisy

Longer than usual run about in case Storm Austen comes in earlier than expected

Afternoon run on the field - not enough time between the showers to go further

Scillonian III returning to Penzance and then went straight into the wet dock for protection from the storm.

Maisie testing out her new waterproof coat

Wednesday

 

Sun just coming up over the hill

Lots of shower clouds around and it was blowing a gale

First outing of Maisie's little red tankie

One of the many shower clouds  moving East

Afternoon walkies

Hat on for me as my ears hate this cold NW wind