Typical me... I was seeing the end of the storm, not the beginning. I was so tired last night I slept right through it. Lots of damage in the country, but nothing here in the house or garden. Phew.

Mental note: don't try to do 2 days worth of physical work in 1 day.

Oh, and I admit I have stayed skeptical - waiting for more information mainly - for a long time, but whatever the politics or the cause: the weather is pretty funky lately, it's hard to ignore the facts. We had storms in November we usually never have. We had 39°C days in summer where usually getting a few days to 30 is exceptional. It's not so much the "warming" I notice, but the seasons being totally out of whack.

I took a picture of this rose... yesterday. January 2nd. That's the first time I see that in 55 years, so yeah... This is 2 weeks after having 20 cm snow fall. Usually our roses die in October, not bloom at end of December.