We woke this mornng with gale force winds against our windows as we are receiving the first instalment of Atlantic Storm Henry. We both were awake early because of the wind. I'll put some pictures showing St. Martin's on a similarly windy day before Christmas.
It is better for the cattle if they are on the sheltered side of the island.
The weather curtailed some of our activities today. We were due to have a Methodist Chapel service this afternoon but because all boats were cancelled the minister was unable to make it. Sometimes in theses situations I take the service but because there are so few of us here at the moment we decided to cancel. We were also due to have a clay pigeon shoot arranged this morning but because of the rain and wind we all bottled out of it.
My time was taken when Christine discovered that her freezer was not working. We established that the power to it had failed but we were able to connect it to another socket and all was soon operating successfully again. We keep the freezer in our shed and 3 out of the 4 socket points there had failed. We will have repair whatever has happened. Living on an isolated island does sometimes have its difficulties!
We had Christine's Uncle Rodney down for lunch and it was good to see him and hear that his washing machine had operated successfully. We had a chat - the last one over lunch for several weeks - and said possibly goodbye until the middle of March.
You may be wondering who will look after Button and our house when we are away. We have initially arranged with neighbours to feed the cat and later our friends Colin and Sheila will take care of things, so that should work out OK.
We did some trial packing as well today and so should be ready for the final pack later tomorrow - it is all getting very close but we seem fairly well organised?
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