Eunice

 It's been noisy and rocky on the boat but as we have a widebeam it's not as rocky as a narrow boat.

We took sensible precautions, making sure we were moored safely, removing things from the roof and ensuring the doors and hatches are secure.

There was very little rain yesterday morning but the wind was incredible. I walked Beano on my own about 8ish but Steve came with me for the second walk as I had problems keeping my feet. As it wasn't raining Beano was keen to have a long walk but we had to dissuade him as there was so much debris flying about.

There were trees falling in the marina and out on the cut, one nearby boat had all four of its solar panels smashed to pieces. There were three trees down on the nearby stock fences,  fortunately a boater with a chainsaw was able to move the trees and stop the stock escaping. A lot of boaters have a chainsaw.

The marina didn't lose power despite having overhead power lines but our batteries were full anyway so we would have been ok.

The weather was calm and dry this morning so Beano had an hours walk but it has rained all afternoon.

The only thing we forgot was to bring forward our pump out. It's not due until next week but because we had visitors, Steve's brother and his GF, our black tank was filled up early. Then it was too windy to get across to get a pump out. We will use the porta potty until we can get across, it's still too windy to move today but hopefully the wind should die down soon.