Here on Iona, the wind can become quite ferocious as it is a small, treeless island on the sea. To give you an idea of its strength, for the second night in a row now, I have been woken up from my sleep in the middle of the night by the wind. It probably is particularly noisy because i have a very very old window which sounds sometimes as if it will just collapse in from all of the air pressure. This is what the wind sounds like (although my camera mic doesn't quite do it justice):
I was thinking the other day how it would be nice to open my window for fresh air and then i realized that was silly cause there was always fresh air coming in (again, the wonders of living in an old abbey on a windy island). Its the window that is open without being open! Still, it has some lovely views:
