Weather all change

This morning dawned clear and fine then at about 11.45 a storm blew in, in usual dramatic fashion: a wall of cloud with its base at about 1000m (enough to cut off most of the view) approached from the west at great speed (perhaps 50-60 mph) slowly cutting off the view from right to left and in the space of about 2 minutes visibilty was a few hundred metres and the air was full of hail driven by a strong gale. It's rained, sleeted and hailed all afternoon - most of which I spent at Justin and Emily's helping them out with some architectural and construction problems (in return for help with the pig slaughtering which will probably take place tomorrow).