After the wind...

There are 7 streetlights through Montenegro,  most of which work most of the time,  they are usually re- bulbed in May ready for our fiesta.  But when we have strong winds like the ones that blew down recently, then I think we're lucky to have any working at all.

One lost its top recently and another lost its  top yesterday.  One is still working but surely when the next rain comes the other one will stop working too.  And not only has one lost it's top,  somehow it has bent as well.

No top, not working and bent in the wind.

It's top is on the ground but it's still working.

The pista is as clean as we've seen it for ages, it looks as if a giant broom has gone down and swept it.  No grit or loose stones to be seen.   I don't know where it's ended up,  in the past we have found some of the leaves of the rose bushes  outside have been shredded by the grit as it flies past.  Almost sand blasted.  But the plants are all ok today.

We have over the years, noticed places that the wind doesn't really affect, and so it's those places and corners that we lay down the stacked garden chairs,  watering cans,  buckets, pot plants and such like.  But this morning when we went out, the stacked chairs were a long way out of their corner but still stacked,  the watering cans - which we keep full of water to weight them down - had blown over, emptied and were wedged in a banking under a hedge,  the sunbeds which  are folded up in a safe place were not there but had moved and as for the pool!   Well, firstly,  covered in almond blossom and leaves, and  secondly it had had such big waves that all the surrounding area was wet from the overflow.  And it's not even full.  We had made sure that it was well down from the top as it did overflow earlier this year but it managed to do it again.  I know the forecast said 'waves at the coast' but I didn't realise that meant our pool too!