The Beast from the East Feb/Mar 2018
Weather men were forecasting the "Beast from the East" was going to hit the whole country at the end of Feb/beginning of March. They certainly gave us plenty of notice as they were telling us about it for several days. Did we believe them? Did we believe it would affect us on this side of the country in Annan? Would it be as bad as they were suggesting? Well, with hindsight - they were absloutely right, and it did indeed reach and affect us in Annan - and places further to the west of us! So on Tuesday 27th March we went to bed wondering what we would find when we opened the curtains next morning ..... Cue song:- T he weather outside was frightful the fire (or in our case radiator) was so delightful and since we've no place to go let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. The wind was a problem though - it was so strong it was blowing the snow into drifts. Not a great problem for us in the garden but a huge one on ...