A Windy Welcome Back From Storm 'Eleanor'

Happy New year and welcome back to the readers of the blog.

Back with a bang, or a crash in this instance, the Gardens and Grounds team returned today from the College's Christmas and New Year shut down and were welcomed back by the strong winds of storm 'Eleanor'.
The storms are now named by the Met Office and Met Eireann and are based on the National Severe Weather Warning Service, helping to raise awareness of the severity of the winds and their potential impact. Working through A-Z from the beginning of September to the end of March, in 2015-16 there were 11 storms from Abigail through to Kate, in 2016-17 there were only five storms, from Angus through to Ewan, but since last September there have already been five, from Aileen through to Eleanor which arrived over night and blew through the county of Oxfordshire most of the day. 
Eleanor had an immediate impact on the returning team having caused one of the beech trees to shed a rather large limb bringing it crashing to the ground. This had to be cleared, cutting it up with a chainsaw, then splitting the wood into logs and stacking them in the log store where they will dry out ready to be used as firewood.
A windy welcome back to work, it is hoped that storm 'Fionn' never arrives!