I am fed up with this weather. The storm has been horrible. A window pane blew out in one of the outbuildings where we keep the rabbits and we can't find the glass anywhere. I can't really imagine that the House Brownie has taken it, but this year anything is possible.

Mr Penry, bless him, spent hours in the pouring rain freeing up our drains (there are six of them around the outside of the house) which had become blocked with leaves etc. He was drenched and shivering by the time he came in.

The news of our valley was a bit scary, but being up on the mountainside I think most of it has passed us by. It's not just the storm though, it's the endless rain that gets on my nerves, day after day after day. It gets on the dogs nerves too. Considering they've been cooped up all day, they've been remarkably good.

And we haven't had all that much rain get into the house, considering. And as Mr Penry says, better a few drops of rain than a few feet of floodwater!