I didn't notice it being an excessively windy night last night (perhaps because I drank 3 small glasses of the homemade wine - probably equivalent to a bottle of 'normal' wine!) However, when I went out this morning quite a big branch had blown down off the big oak tree - I guess a 100kgs or more in weight so it must have been pretty blowy!
So, hopefully tomorrow morning I'll be able to get the chainsaw out and add to the log store. What it has made me think though is that perhaps we didn't go high enough with our pruning the other day - could've been nasty if it had gone the other way onto the house!
The great oak
Slightly changing the subject, a project for tomorrow will be estimating the oak's age - I found what looks like some good information from the Woodland Trust http://wbrc.org.uk/atp/Estimating%20Age%20of%20Oaks%20-%20Woodland%20Trust.pdf which should help.
