This afternoon we had a bit of a shower...

Okay, fist sized lumps of ice fell from the sky breaking windows, windscreens and trees. Admittedly the fist in question belongs to a six year old but compared to our wimpy summer hail this was pretty impressive. We have big windows and I'm just grateful for the direction of the wind otherwise we would have had more than just the odd ricochet, which were scary enough...

It coincided with a heavy downpour (and gave me a whole armful of vocabulary for tonight's lesson.... raining cats and dogs always goes down well) which meant that streets flooded and tree debris caused traffic jams.

And at the same time it was still 15C... we're still waiting for winter. One of the strange things here is the whole seeing your breath when it's not cold thing, but 85% humidity will do that.  ¶ 1:19 AM