Happy New Year!
*obligatory mention of the end of the world being nigh*
The weather's fairly aggressive at the moment:
Suffolk: Tree and power cables down as strong winds batter region - News - East Anglian Daily Times
I've lost count of the number of people I spoke to this morning at work who groaned about how horribly they'd slept, last night. I woke up several times, too - either because of the wind groaning through the holes in my windows, or the torrential rain blasting against the glass (or both). The couple who lived in the flat before I moved in cleverly took the vent covers off the window so they could screw a roller blind up - instead of drilling fresh holes into the wall and putting the blind up on that, they took part of the window frame off and screwed the blind into the holes that were left behind.
If it's anything like yesterday, the "upstairs" part of the pharmacy building will groan and shudder all day. Feels like tempting fate, joking about the roof blowing off.
(* Edit: I have since googled it. I still don't know why it's so high on the "happy new year" list. ¬_¬)
Lastly, thanks to