batten down the hatches

Hi Tony ...
Keep safe ...
good to see that the gnomes have safe places away from the storms ... :o)))

Put a brick on your table or move incase it took off.

Keep safe most of all.

Nice neat garden.

I will be battening down the hatches tomorrow. I just gotta find somewhere sheltered to put everything.

Keep safe.

I've even booked Monday off work, just in case! Don't want to be driving down country roads if there are trees coming down!

It has been advised, travel only if absolutely necessary.

My Hatches are well and truly battened..at least I hope they are !We will just have to weather the storm,as they say..and I won't be going anywhere either :o(

Keep safe everybody!

I've just checked our local forecast from the Met.and it looks as though it might miss us in parts of Yorkshire,and veer across to Holland etc..wind speed given as 24mph,so let's hope they have got it right..I'm not going to be complacent though...it's still going to be wet all week ..

That table definitely looks like 'she may blow' captain. We are not so bad up here in Scotland. We lost a much loved fir tree a couple of years ago. (91mph winds) I had just put up a greenhouse too. It is in a very sheltered position so it was OK. Hope your gnomes don't go on safari. :o)

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Your green house looks quite safe there in between the fence and shed, so hopefully should be ok Tony. I was out in the garden yesterday putting away my tom. house and securing all climbers to their arches, plus securing arches with stakes. Perhaps it won't be as bad as predicted ! Still fine here in Lincolnshire and mild too ! Is this the calm before the storm !

I shall feel better knowing that those little gnomes are safe and sound tonight even if I am lying in my bed wide awake listening to the wind and the rain and wondering what other damage is being caused!!

There is only so much we can do isn't there and then we just have to stay indoors and HOPE for the best.

Good luck to everyone and to everyone's greenhouses and trellises and slates.

Rose 1949. This could well be the calm before the storm.

Thank you all. Hope any damage was kept to a minimum for all. Think we may have just missed the main storm path here. On the other hand that assumption could change any moment. Noise on my Lawn prompted me to open curtains in lounge. Those blooming Gnomes were doing a jig around my blooming water butt ,the cheek (LOL). Take care nice people Tony

Where I live in South London,the only damage I can see so far is the large apple tree has been emptied all over the floor and the communal electricity cupboard doors were blown open (they were locked) as the wind blew the heavy entrance and exit doors open.

Well, Alextb, and Tony, I think we may have missed it here! After the rain overnight stopped , it was a calm sunny day. I hope no one else had problems !