You know how British people like to complain about the weather (what my Aussie friend calls Whinging Poms!) especially on Bank holidays when it is grey and dull or pouring rain. WELL! I don’t care what terrible weather they are having in England over Easter because it can’t be as bad as we’ve experienced in SI!
I watched the local weather report on SIBC on Good Friday evening ... scattered showers over Honiara for Saturday. No worries there then.
Saturday morning the rain woke me at 4.30am (don’t you just love tin roofs?) Chatted to husband and brother on Skype. Just thinking about charging the battery on my laptop when the electricity went off. Eventually found the number for the electricity company and called them to be told a coconut tree had fallen on the wires. “hav hour, we fixim!”
Then the storm really got going. We’ve had the most torrential rain and high winds that I have ever experienced. The trees are bending and crashing about. Water is pouring off the roof all around the house. The road outside the gate is now a raging, muddy torrent. There are 4 new swimming poolsin the garden and a pond that seems to be full of frogs – don’t know where they came from! It’s getting darker by the minute and I’m just trying to decide whether to de-camp with my computer to a local hotel – or go back to bed.
I carried on doing what work I could without my computer – I haven’t written with a pen for so long since my last exam! The electricity? – 4 hour, we fixim!
