Dash out to the shops

Gale force winds from the North and regular prolonged hailstorms have kept us indoors all day. Indeed I wouldn't have strayed out except for the fact we had almost run out of coal for the Rayburn.
I bravely drove across the causeway to the supermarket - no ferries so devoid of bread and milk - and came back, coaled up, when suddenly there was a little colour on the horizon. Pulling over to the side of the road - not a lot of traffic about - and this was the view.