Awful weather yesterday across the country – it was bad enough here but not as dire as elsewhere especially South Wales.

This picture above is from my brother’s upstairs window in Nantgarw in South Wales looking out on the road! Luckily they kept water out of the houses by collectively digging a trench to divert the water. We found our road into the village under water that was just about passable.

At least today has been quieter and thankfully dry (although it is now raining as I write). We went looking for starling murmurations at dusk We only saw a 1,000 or so birds and they went down as groups and not as one mass. A couple of poor pictures below of the birds and one of a leafless tree (I love tree shapes and their silhouettes make interesting pictures.)