Storm Babet

October marks the beginning of the autumnal storms.

Storm Babet has passed through with miraculously little damage here on Skye, unlike the East coast of Scotland which seems to has taken the brunt of it, with mass flooding and evacuations.

My thoughts are with those who have lost family or friends in the flooding, or had their lives severely upended.

The winds got up to about 60mph at times and roared around the outside of the house, but being at the top of a hill meant that flooding was never really going to be an issue.

The cats either stayed indoors crying bitterly that they wanted to go out in it, or when we let them out during any lull in the wind, crying to be let back in. Rinse and repeat several times.

They managed somehow not to fly off to Finland.

To be honest, we’ve had worse whilst we were living in the caravan. I’ll always remember arriving on the island in the autumn about three years ago in the teeth of a storm with 70mph winds, and that was brutal.

Now we have the calm after the storm and some fabulous sunsets.