The scariest storm ever....

I like THUNDER

I like LIGHTNING

I DO NOT like hail stones the size of golfballs!!

These fell in a storm on Tuesday night.  I had just come in from my 5km walk, running ahead of the storm all the way, listening to the thunder rolling in from every direction, without a flash of lightning nor a drop of rain.

Then these things appeared out of the sky....

 

... and covered the ground.

Splashing down in the pool......

.....bouncing off the roof of the terrace.

Smashing a tube of our solar panel....

...and smashing through the guttering.....

.....and smashing up my cold frames.

 A couple of hours later, they had not even melted away....

 

... they also knocked huge amounts of apples of the trees, you can see why, the hail stones are the same size as the poor little apples.