The Kingdom awoke to thunder & lightning yesterday, robbing me of that last, precious half-hour of sleep (grumble, grumble!).

The journey to work made up for my loss, with most of the traffic lights between home & the city out of action. What would normally take around fifty minutes was reduced to twenty, with traffic flowing smoother than it ever has. No Police directing traffic, they just weren't required! Without cars in their hundreds being banking up at the lights, everyone could find a gap in the traffic to pull out & get on their way. Makes me wonder whether some of these major roads need lights at all. Hmmm!

Anyway, the storms which did the damage hung around throughout the day & 24 hours later, the remnants are still drifting across. Their display last night was rather spectacular & a good chance to try out my new Christmas tripod. With my finger holding down the button for some high speed shooting & living in hope that something would happen before either, my memory card hit capacity or my finger turned numb, I got lucky & here are the results.







Of course, for every frame of lightning there were 400+ duds which I had to keep clearing from the camera & every single time I had to do so, the sky would be bathed in forks which would have made brilliant photos! (add further grumbling here!)