Safely disconnected from DSL for hours now. We have been thinking about it and this is the longest period of continuous thunder rumbling we have ever heard here. Lightning strikes are now over the whole island and are surrounding us but luckily they never got closer than about 1 mile away, to the east of us. Slatted blinds were drawn in the bedroom and somehow we didn’t see that flash.
Ciarán the old greyhound is happy and content because he is downstairs on his sofa, not upstairs in the bedroom dog bed. This means that he feels safe in the downstairs part of the house, encompassed by 4-6 foot thick stone walls (truly) whereas upstairs he feels too close to the roof and is unsafe. He pants when he is upstairs if there’s thunder, brònán, poor lamb, but is fine now today.
Janet has been really poorly all day, with pain in various places especially around her left shoulder blade and she thinks it is her fibromyalgia playing up. she has had lots of pain killers which have done a good job. I feel helpless- nothing much I can do to help her feel better.