It is difficult to imagine a house shaking for hours on end.
But that is exactly what this one is doing.
Shaking, vibrating and occasionally lurching.
Where the ceiling is still the original wooden-plank-construction the dust of three hundred years is trickling out from between the cracks.

They have warned us not to go outside unless it is absolutely necessary and then definitely not to go where there are trees.
Train services have been discontinued until further notice.
No - we're not in the middle of an earthquake, it is windy!

The picture below is of an electric fence.
Somewhere along its length it came adrift and now it is hanging bizarrely in the wind.
The brown patterns on the grass?
The farmer decided it was going to rain so he emptied the contents of the organic manure tanks from his cow shed.
It hasn't rained yet but thanks to the wind, at least I can't smell it.



My neighbour's metal table has been transported to new surroundings and there is no sign at all of her watering cans.
I just wish the bamboo plant would blow away too ...



... not much chance of that happening, I suppose.

I need to do some shopping, I wonder if I should risk going out ...
... what do they mean when they say 'unless it is absolutely necessary'?