Saturday January 24th, continued

23.00 The winds have now dropped and, for the moment the rain has stopped. Our wooden barn now has about 3 walls and one of them does not look too good. Our house roof has lost many tiles, and I have run out of containers to catch the water. We are spending our second night downstairs in the house but it is quite comfortable.

The dog insisted on an excursion outside just before 02.00 and woke me. Outside the sky was clear, not much moonlight but every constellation visible. It is hard to believe that 24 hours before I had difficulty even opening the door.

Sunday morning and we are still without telephone or internet link. I have walked around the back house, which took the full force of the wind. The storm has saved us some work as the old lean too garage now has no rear doors and very few tiles on the roof. Quite a lot of the house roof tiles have gone. Another part of the non-accommodation has lost quite a lot of glass complete with window frames. It will have to be a careful clean up and gardening in future as there are a lot of small bits of glass everywhere.

Have to get a bit clear as they are inaugurating ‘La Mairie” in the village. It has just been refurbished together with the Post Office so there is to be a little gathering of the village population.