[Fleecewife]

Parts of Scotland are suffering huge storms and flooding, but here on our hill the rain only started falling a couple of days ago and in slite of many storms forecast the only thunder we heard was two rumbles, and no lightning.  Nice and wetting but not enough yet to make much of a difference.  Some of our trees, especially birches, are really suffering and have dropped most of their leaves.  We have so far collected four half 1000 litre barrels of rainwater so the main urgency of water for livestock and plants is over.