See you all tomorrow night - read all about our day!!!.

I'm off early in the morning to Montrose with Ian. He has telephone exchanges to visit. I've elected to go with him and take notes on what equipment is needed for broadband. (Any excuse for a lunch paid for by his firm. ) I should be back around 7ish so I'll see you all then. :-D

Have a great Thursday everybody.

 

Have a great time Eils, bring us back something nice!

 

Hope you had a great day out. Great break in the routine for both of you.

 

Well we got back around 8 o'clock. We were both cold, wet, tired and ever so slightly windswept!!
We were so tense and exhausted when we got in that Ian went off and had a long soak in the bath while I fell asleep in my chair then he took a nap and I had a shower. We ordered a take-away for dinner as neither of us felt like cooking.
Definately not the best day for travelling up north I'm afraid. The Forth Road Bridge was to all traffic except cars because of high gusting winds of 80mph. The rain was lashing down so hard the windscreen wipers could hardly cope and it was freezing.
We had the traffic reports on all the time and had to make quite a few diversions as lorries were overturning and cars were being blown into each other. We avoided all roads with trees alongside them as heard that one poor man was killed when a tree was uprooted and fell on to his car!! We actually saw an empty van being lifted onto its two offside wheels and we honestly thought it was going to tip over but, just in time, the wind dropped for a few seconds and it righted itself again. The driver pulled on to the hard shoulder, got out of his cab and was physically sick - poor guy we felt so sorry for him.
As we drove part of the way home along the coast road, no trees there thankfully, the waves were sweeping up and over the dual carriageway. It was really frightening. Fields looked more like lakes, some with floating hale bales!! I would have taken piccies but to be perfectly honest I didn't want to stand out in that kind of weather.
Boy were we glad when we turned the key in our own front door.

 

Whoa, what a terrifying day. Sorry it wasn't a nice getaway. But so glad you made it back home safe.

 

Oh dear Eils I knew it was bad where you are now but I had no idea it was that bad. Poor guy who got done in by that tree, what a way to go

We're glad to have you back safe and sound!