Storm Ophelia came and went and during her visit gave the canoe a flying lesson. We discovered it yesterday in the bog quite a distance from where it usually rests. No damage thanks to the lovely soft bog-landing! #Storm #Bog #Landscape #Canoe

Taking the donkeys down from their highland summer residence to their more sheltered winter residence...just in time before Storm Ophelia hit. #countrylife #donkeys #homestead #storm

3.30am. It sounds like a Boeing 747 is taking off outside the yurt. I've never heard wind like this before. The noise is literally deafening. Gusts build and howl around us and I lie, frozen, waiting for something to give - the yurt to suddenly uproot or a tree to appear through the roof. Then it all goes eerily quiet momentarily... (and breathe)...before the next gust comes bellowing. I'm on my own with the girls tonight. Therefore 'in charge' and feeling ill equipped for th