Light show.

So....after weeks and weeks of dry weather last night, at about 11.30, we watched a storm approaching us in Blue Moon House. The lightning was constant and we heard the thunder approaching for at least 45 minutes until it was over us. Before it arrived we decided to head back down into Frogknot to sit it out because the lightning seemed to suggest that it was a particularly  intense storm when in actual fact it turned out to be pretty much a damp squib. It was over and gone in about 15 minutes with a short 3 minute burst of heavy rain and then just the drip, drip, drop of April showers.We went back to Blue Moon and to sleep.At 1.55 am we were woken by another aproaching storm. The lightning was less frequent than the previous storm.It never ceases to amaze me how fast these storms approach. I doubt you could outrun one in a car.This second storm had much more substance and we got a fair bit of rain with it. One bolt of lightning seemed to hit very close by as the crack of thunder was almost immediate and shook our little house. It was all over in about 45 minutes but in all we had 13 mls of rain.Everything has been so dry, the grass was crunching underfoot and the leaves on the trees were all shriveled. It was a welcome relief.One thing not so welcome is the effect the rain appears to have had upon one very noisy cricket that started to chirrup after the first shower. It continued most of the night and is still at it tonight. I think I prefer the monotony of the distant yapping thing to this cricket's rhythmic trilling.It's like someone's unanswered mobile phone going on for hours and hours and hours......