TheWayfaringTree

By FergInCasentino

Stormy

A night and day of tremendous wind and rain. No.1 of two frontal systems coming from the north powered by descending Arctic maritime air. The colder front arrives Friday. Some big trees downed locally. Our hazel trellising went, as they say, per un Burton.

See here for the origins of ‘gone for a burton.’ The IIWW RAF origin seems the most plausible if grimly humorous

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/gone-for-a-burton.html

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