My internet went down totally both phone and wi fi last night, just as I posted my last reply on this thread.
Fbg 7.9
Not going to worry bout that rise. Who cares...
That Storm Dennis at 5pm was Armageddon.
I love storms and lightning I have always said that. But this Storm Dennis was a whole new level of unbridled fury.
It had died down a bit from its absolute fury of my previous post. But then as i was replying to
@DJC3 it was like an explosion, my garden was suddenly flattened by the wind, and I have trees (about 15-20 foot high) and bushes, then the wind whipped round and round from every direction bending all trees and bushes every which way.
My internet had gone for the phone as well by then.
I was petrified. And the driving rain. I realised my heart was pounding. I don't think i have ever had that before. When it subsided somewhat i went to make a cup of tea. But i couldnt do it. My kettle boils and puts the water direct in the cup...I didn't put the cup under it. Don't worry I was fine, i didnt get scalded. I couldn't do anything. So i went to bed and took a book to read, but I couldnt read the words.
Popeye laid on my chest in his I am guarding you position and he didn't go to sleep and i felt the vibrations of his purrs all night. I did sleep. He didn't. Each time i woke up he was watching me.
So i got up at 4 as usually and did this painting of a storm, but i needed the charcoal and graphite, and that was in the garage. So a torch and i went and got it. It is messy stuff which is why i dont do it in the house. But it was needed for my storm clouds.
So you can see the materials i used in the second photo. A kneadable eraser and a electric eraser, and other stuff.
And you can see my painting desk is one mess...I started this charcoal on top of everything else...
I was brushing the charcoal and graphite off, but that was making a bad mess on top of all my other stuff. Then i though, i bought a handheld rechargeable vacuum cleaner last week. Would that take the charcoal and graphite dust off...it did!!!
So then that is me vacuuming up the charcoal graphite painting. It worked. I will do some more indoors now.
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I am still shaky from yesterday. Like i said before i am never going to get flooded in the way all those poor souls have been with rivers running through their houses. So i have a lot to be grateful for.
I need to get out of this place for a couple of hours. So I haven't checked out your posts, i might not be able to because this internet connection is more off that on. The light keeps trolling through from green to amber then stays on red then it tried so amber again, then switches to green for a second, then goes down to amber and red again. I need green to post this. So i have written this on a note pad app. If i cant do it here, i will do it when i go out, hopefully.
There is a new cafe opened last week, called the Golden Restuarant (I cannot spell that and spellcheck is down!). So if that is open i will try and post from there. There was a board outside saying English Breakfast £5.
The sky this morning and blue and sunny and totally belies yesterday.
Be safe
Take care
Hugs
Catch you later...
