The bittersweet taste of hail

I had my car in for its MOT today and the garage I use is on a farm in the middle of the "northern" Somerset Levels, not 1.12 miles from my house. Very handy. At 1pm the garage rang and said, all okay come and collect. So the sky was blue the clouds were white and fluffy, and I set off.

However half way into the walk to the garage it began to look very very dark over Wales, where, from where the above photo was taken on my phone, you should be able to see Sugar Loaf Mountain in the Brecon Beacons. Not this afternoon, it looked very dark and brooding, but there was a lovely rainbow developing, right over the building in the mid ground, which happens to be the garage.

I had no choice, I had to walk to the garage, so I continued. Until that is I found myself about a quarter of a mile away in a quandary. Should I stop and look at the double rainbow, knowing what was happening..........



 ....... or stop and look at the double rainbow and take some photos on my phone. I chose the latter (shame I didn't have the camera with me). I couldn't quite get the whole double rainbow in, so above and below are the result.... if you use the tree by the hedge you get the idea. 

Seconds after taking these the heaviest, and I have to say most painful, hailstorm I've been in for a long time hit me, boy did it hurt. I arrived at the garage like a drowned rat. However I wouldn't have missed this for the world, and the chance to unexpectedly see a double rainbow in front of an advancing warm front over cold air is just fantastic.