Kitchen Monkey

11 March 2008

Up up and away literally!
Have you been holding on to your umbrella and imitating Mary poppins over the past couple of days with the rest of us at all.

Windy or what, I was trying to drive yesterday and the gusts were so strong they were literally blowing the car across the road. At one point a land rover discovery came flying past me on the motorway only to hit a severe gust of wind and with the speed he was going he totally lost control of his car. It was frightening watching it in slow motion from where we were behind him.

It seemed the further south we got the fiercer the wind became. I still couldn’t believe how people thing they can still put up an umbrella in wind of that speed. You see them down the street hanging on for dear life as the wind blows the umbrellas popping it inside out and then you instantly turn about to try to get it to pop back the other way again.

The sea waves were very fierce with the high tide experienced by the south and west earlier this week.

I remember being in Norfolk in a caravan when they had a high tide warning which was in September that year. The sirens were sounded as the water had breached the sea barriers and my son at the time was terrified thinking we had gone to war. We were evacuated that night to a local community centre for everyone’s safety and allowed back the next day to a very flooded caravan park.

What windy experiences have you been up too? Why not email them across to us on jacqui@kitchenmonkey.co.uk

One set of people enjoying the windy weather recently were kite flyers and this new trend of Kite Surfing, where a large kite is flown and you are upon a large skate board and basically off you go. What fun it look's, although I think one chap couldn’t grasp the basics of trying to look up to fly your kite and also look forward to see where you are going, and OUCH I bet that is going to hurt!

Get in touch and I will pick my favourite and give this person a super surprise of their own!!!