"Eskimo Will" wrote in message news:...

"Eskimo Will" wrote in message news:...
Very mild with T +11.0C D +11.0C.
Last of my snow piles has now gone.
Horizontal lashing rain and drizzle.
Wind WSW F5 at home but F7 on the exposed moor.
1630
A strong wind gust (31 knots on 3m high anemo, but certainly more than
that round the house where funnelled) has just destroyed a mature
Camellia. Snapped it clean off at the base. I feel quite tearful as I was
very fond of that bush.
Can't curse the wind though, it's just nature!
Rain is still lashing down and still very mild T +10.7C.


1650
35mm rain since midnight at Postbridge (369m asl) now gusting 40 knots up
there too. Goodness knows what it is like on the exposed moor higher up.
PS just discovered a small live camellia shoot coming out of the stump. That
has been growing since the bush was mishaped (flattened) in the Dec 2010
snows. It will now become the main bush in time, hopefully. Nature always
finds a way!

Will
--
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
---------------------------------------------