Huge Storm

Early this morning, 1 am in fact, we were woken up by the most tremendous noise of rain or hail we have ever heard on an iron roof, it was frightening. It lasted about ten minutes but the wind never abated. Luckily our trees are still relatively young and seem to be able to withstand the onslaught of these ferocious winds we seem to be having this winter. The ground is well and truly soaked by now and trying to drain the water away on flat ground is well nigh impossible.
This afternoon was Bookgroup and we were a sadly depleted lot. One of our members had to leave her home and now resides in the Helping Hand care unit in Adelaide. Another one had a bad fall and broke her upper arm, another one's husband has been diagnosed with probable liver cancer and yet another one was in Adelaide preparing the sale of her sister's house who died a few months ago. She had been a single woman so had no children.
Our book for the month had been Jeffrey Archer's "Paths of Glory" which was about George Mallory who died in the attempt to climb Mt Everest. Archer made a very readable book out of this. Our next book is "A Distant Shore" by Peter Yeldham. It was my choice so this means I have to do research on the author and give a critique on his writing next meeting in October.
I have just heard a fox bark not far from the back door, I find it a very primordial sound and quite disturbing. The chooks are locked up so they should be safe but foxes are so cunning and can find ways in you haven't thought of. In some of the English crime series you quite often hear the fox bark in the background of some creepy scene!

I had an e mail from the co op president to say the power has been cut off from our Gallery because the landlord had not paid his bill of several thousand dollars.Not amusing when the gallery has been very prompt in paying the rent and portion of that powerbill for years.So the gallery is closed and we are back to wondering what is going to happen. I will leave my garments in there for the time being.