Extreme weather to stillness

Today we had winds going up to 65 knots, and belting rain. We had the internet and cellphones down for about 14 hours, and I think 4 short power - outages. No major damage, but this merely the tail end aftermath of what hit Queensland. It was still not a bad writing day despite it. But by about 6pm the sun was out and the wind still. It was hard to believe we were on the same island. I managed a bit of good writing in between, and then we went off to tea with Peter and Helen (who must think 'Africa = the poor beggars are starving' just on the sheer volume of the feed they gave us. We had a really tender juicy turkey and an excellent gravy - an enormous treat as we don't get to eat bird-meat very often (I think we're averaging about once every couple of months, if you count muttonbirds). Many terrible jokes, much laughter... what going for a meal should be. And hell on the liver, methinks. And now it is late and I am for bed as we a garage sale to go to early tomorrow.