Worst June day I can ever remember

I just can't believe this awful, disgusting weather! It hasn't stopped raining today, and we have 50-60mph gusts of cold northerly wind. The rain has lashed down, the garden is a squelchy mess, and my plants are ruined. The sweet pea wigwam has had the plants torn off the sticks, my runner bean wigwam also has a couple of sticks wrenched out. My outdoor tomato plants are all dead, they have rotted away. My garden fence looks like it's about to come down, the bush outside the window keeps dipping over and is about to knock my sky dish off the wall. But did this stop Emma wanting to go out? Oh no, not likely. So like an idiot I took her round the park, and we got drowned! And nearly blown over. There's bits of trees down all over the place. And I kid you not, I could have done with gloves on, my hands were frozen. It's an absolute joke.

So all I've done today is some hoovering, and wait for Wimbledon to start, which it finally did about 2.30 I think, but then I was out of course. At least it stopped eventually though up there. And I took some photos through the living room window of poor little soaked baby birds looking for food outside. I keep throwing them some. There's a young Blackbird who appears to have a dangly wing, he's been hiding under the old cover that I used to feed the hogs under by the window, wing doesn't look right at all, and not seen him fly. Had a heart attacking moment when the grass had several baby blue tits,sparrows, baby robin and him down, and a Sparrowhawk appeared and landed on the fence! The birds disappeared like lightening though and the hawk looked around for a minute or two then took off. Couldn't believe it never saw any of them though, I mean it came right over the top of them. Thank goodness it didn't get anything which I was watching though. Photos aren't brilliant because they are through the glass but not too bad. Oh I've got a baby Dunnock too, never seen one before. Quite cute.

Oh well will concentrate on the tennis for a while now, Henman has just come out to play, so will have to turn the volume down to muffle the screams every time he wins a shot....