More storms

I mentioned that Doug has been spending a lot of time fixing up the drive after recent storms (and also 6 years of wear and tear where we have done small things but nothing drastic). We have had a number more storms recently, with one being particularly dramatic.
We thought our damage was bad until we popped round a friends house and saw where a bolt of lightening had struck the electricity pylon just outside their house!
It blew up our electric fence energiser - which is expensive, and also knocked down two trees - which is hard work clearing up, fortunately they weren't very big.

This tree at the top of the drive. It fell while Doug and I were both standing next to it.

This is a branch that fell off a tree at the bottom of the drive. It landed on the phone line and broke it. They seem to have fixed it without telling us off or charging us for this! Phew!

Useful pile of wood (this is just the top tree, probably similar from the bottom one)