R and I braved walking down to the front at high tide to see if there was flooding like last winter. There wasn’t – but it was absolutely foul. And then on the way back the sun was out over Benn Donich. Surpassingly weird.

Luckily I got our shopping in in Dunoon this morning because this is classic weather for the village getting cut off. Although we are lucky enough to have two roads out – one of them is over the Rest and be Thankful which is extremely prone to landslides in the wet and the other is the Dunoon road which runs right along the side of Loch Eck and is prone to flooding.

I took a video of it from our front door – unfortunately I didn’t quite get it at its peak – but even so I had to stop it after 15 seconds because me (and more importantly, my Lumia 1020) were getting soaked.