A bit blowy......

Robert Wilson said:
Very wet too, so not going out to measure the wind speed, but I guess it's about F8 , gusting F10.
Glad Khamsin isn't out in this!
I haven't heard from the yard at Ullapool, so I presume she's still upright on the chocks :confused:

What's it doing where you are?
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Gusting 33 at Landguard (River Orwell, Felixstowe) and very wet!
Should be lifted out today but maybe not in this weather :confused:
 
Stuck at home in West Sussex while the council workmen cut down and remove two mature oak trees that decided to start leaning over in last week's bad weather. Being responsible for something large, heavy and overhanging a busy main road certainly had us scrambling for the house insurance policy!
Hats off to the workmen who arrived at dawn in gusty wet conditions and set to with determination.
 
Resolution said:
Stuck at home in West Sussex while the council workmen cut down and remove two mature oak trees that decided to start leaning over in last week's bad weather. Being responsible for something large, heavy and overhanging a busy main road certainly had us scrambling for the house insurance policy!
Hats off to the workmen who arrived at dawn in gusty wet conditions and set to with determination.
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Make sure they don’t turn all that green oak into firewood.....planked and dried it could be something beautiful for the next 100 years.....not up in smoke
 
Robih said:
Make sure they don’t turn all that green oak into firewood.....planked and dried it could be something beautiful for the next 100 years.....not up in smoke
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Not the best trunks and a poor measure of honey fungus, so it has all gone straight to firewood. (An offset to the painful cost of felling.)
But I am told by friends in the chainsaw business down here that we have a lot of oak on supply at the moment, so only the best gets sold off for furniture or similar. Surrey and Sussex have LOTS of trees of all sorts, which is one of the enormous pleasures of living down here.
On the plus side, speaking greenly, one of the crew on my boat is re-creating a natural English wood over in Kent and has planted thousands of oak saplings in the past couple of years. Which is a fine gesture of faith in humanity surviving, as these wee things will be no use to anyone for a hundred years or so. And rebuilding the Victory will be using a couple of thousand of today's mature trees I believe.
Sorry for the thread drift, Robert. I hope things are quieter with you now.
 
Resolution said:
Not the best trunks and a poor measure of honey fungus, so it has all gone straight to firewood. (An offset to the painful cost of felling.)
But I am told by friends in the chainsaw business down here that we have a lot of oak on supply at the moment, so only the best gets sold off for furniture or similar. Surrey and Sussex have LOTS of trees of all sorts, which is one of the enormous pleasures of living down here.
On the plus side, speaking greenly, one of the crew on my boat is re-creating a natural English wood over in Kent and has planted thousands of oak saplings in the past couple of years. Which is a fine gesture of faith in humanity surviving, as these wee things will be no use to anyone for a hundred years or so. And rebuilding the Victory will be using a couple of thousand of today's mature trees I believe.
Sorry for the thread drift, Robert. I hope things are quieter with you now.
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No offence taken!
Good to hear from you again.
Aye, 'tis noticeably quieter now. By gum, it were wet!
 
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