Stormy weather ahead

A cold and windy day today, but nearly as bad as it has been in Scotland and the North of England where storm force winds have played havoc with power lines. Another big storm front is expected to hit further south tomorrow, bad enough for flood alerts in the Bristol Channel and recommendations for people to stay home and not travel unless they have to in order to minimise the impact on emergency services. This is the shape of things to come thanks to increased violence and frequency of storms as a result of global heating. In effect, government agencies are making an effort to build national resilience in the face of such a change by developing early warning measures.

I went to the Eucharist at St John's this morning. There were just six of us present. I did some writing when I got back, then cooked lunch for us, then went for a walk down to the river. It was very cold again and the water was running high. The wind was strong enough to push me around in between bouts of calm. I heard a Great Tit calling high up in a tree, with another one answering in the distance, I spotted it among the bare branches and took a few photos like this one. 

Then some preparatory work for next week's Morning Prayer upload, and after supper an evening of binge watching Saturday's BBC Four French crimmie, 'La Promesse' since all six episodes are available on iPlayer. It has developed into a tragic family drama, thrown into crisis by a policeman father's over involvement in a case of abduction in his local village, which he promises to solve and fails. His elder daughter becomes a cop and takes up the cold case while investigating another child abduction twenty years later. You have to get used to the story flashing between past and present, a favourite device with French cinéastes I think.