Hi Brino, the countryside is in midwinter mode, so not all that interesting, I will do another in summer!. At the moment, the storm cap is a small stone slab, but there will be one that fixes to the pin and is curved to cover the open flue.
It is always drifting snow that blocks our roads, when we get snow at all. We used to get low pressure areas over northern europe which would funnel the wind from the steppes of Russia, over Scandinavia, and dump it all down the east coast of the UK. We used to get a bitingly cold noreaster come in, quickly followed by up to three weeks of snow, but that largely no longer happens, as the low pressure areas now seem to form in the north atlantic towards Greenland, and pile all the bad weather on to the west coast. They are down for snow and ice for the next three days, but it looks like the eastern side of the country will be OK. We have had storm Ciara come in over the west coast today with lots of trees down, high winds, and sheets of rain around midday, but it is quiet at the moment.
Phil
