The rest of the deer is butchered into chops, steaks, roasts, stew meat, venisonburger, and even ribs, if the deer is a large one.

The kids got basement duty and my hubs and I struggled in the ensuing storm to nail plastic tarps in place over the openings in the roof.

Hurricane force winds damaged the North Clydeside catenary on January 17 and 18 and on February 12, causing interruptions to the Helensburgh services; in the neighbourhood of Craigendoran and Cardross, the seas in the Firth of Clyde were whipped up to the height of the conductor wires and the insulators themselves.

It is the closest landfalling hurricane known to have an impact.