I’ve not had a shower since Thursday morning and I’ve not washed my every second day hair since Wednesday 😆🤦🏻‍♀️

We are heading into our second full day without power. The wind chill factor outside is -3°C.

The good news is that it has been a lovely day with 13-14mph winds…. It was still really wild even when we went to bed last night. Bed was FREEZING. Maybe tonight I will remember to fill our hot water bottles.

When I was a kid we never had central heating and we just coped and we will again.

We are so very lucky to have a wood burning stove and an open fire but Craig is having to go and collect more wood as we have run out.

I took the dogs for a walk first thing this morning. They hadn’t been far yesterday. Look at the sun!

The calm is so lovely.

I love this next photo. After the strength and destruction of that storm yesterday, the sun will always rise again.

The farm we passed have lost some roofing on one of their sheds.

We met Rachel two doors down and Nacho.

Breathing in that lovely light.

The sky clouds over and there is snow on the hills. We have a yellow weather warning for snow and ice this morning.

These are the power lines that are causing all the problem right now. They are saying we won’t have power until Sunday night at midnight.

I love the reflection of the telegraph poles on the road!

The village hall has lost a length of ridging.

I came back and got Khaleesi and spotted this lovely rainbow!

Then we got caught in a hail storm, you can’t see it in this photo.

It’s just so mean and moody.

This cloud brought snow. I never got any photos of that either. The hail storm turned into snow for a bit. It lay and then melted in the sun.

My new favourite view, I feel like this has taken over from my obsession with gates!!

The puppers were soaking after the hail/snow so have their goonies on to keep dry… they are not getting back out with them on. 😆

Back outside to check everything in the garden… it’s a mess. I tried to clear it up. Poor Craig is loaded with the flu. So I was trying to save him a job but I couldn’t move half of it.

He’s put a big pallet up so hope that will stop the puppers from escaping. We literally just got the garden fully Khaleesi escape proof this summer and now we have to watch her again!!

So I don’t know where the day has gone.

I feel like I’m off sick but we are waiting for something. It’s a very strange feeling.

We went to the co-op for sandwiches, bread and cold meat and might rustle up a BLT for dinner tonight.

Community spirit is great. Many people are leaving to stay with family but those that are left are mucking in together. We have camping stoves set up. We’ve lent out two gas canisters, we’ve the offer of phone charging from neighbours who still have power or have since got generators. There’s something quite lovely about that part of it all.

So the light is just about to fade and I need to get out into the garden to post this.

I have no signal in the house. We’ve been told a mast may be down so we are bouncing further away.

I can’t get on the internet long enough to reply to anyone but it seems to let me post. Mum was going to comment on one of my posts from last night as I can see there are comments there, just not enough signal to read or reply.

It’s been a very strange few days. We are fine. We’ve camped for longer without power or showers. The toilet flushes and the stove is warm. Can’t ask for much more. Except a hot water bottle…. but I will do that tonight.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring?!?

Stay safe everyone 🔥🔥🔥