The Triffid

Today I had no electricity from the very early hours of the morning until well after 10pm. When the supply did come back it also startled me out of my skin by setting an ear piercing alarm which seemed to come from the front door. I had no idea what this was until I also traced it back to the burglar alarm. I was shown this burglar box when I moved in many years ago but had no memory of what to do should it go off. Bit by bit, through this mind-jolting ringing, I sort of remembered a tiny, torn scrap of paper with 4 digits on it and then eventually tracked this down. Ah Peace!

All this was caused by the wild winds that were whipping around up and down the country and there were many serious accidents too. Donald Luke and I drove up country, to Drew Barrymore in Gifford and further, exploring roads we had never yet taken. There was plenty evidence of trees that had fallen across roads and been sawn and lifted away and those that lay uprooted in fields.