They say misery loves company, and it wasn’t just a punctured tyre we suffered recently at The Secret Acre.

Storm Chandra at the end of January turned one row of our new ground mounted solar panels into the lesser known airbourne variety!

The engineers had claimed the installation was good for the 100mph storm gusts we can get here in extreme weather, but Chandra, with maximum gusts where we were well below this, begged to differ. Queue red faced installers with replacement panels and lots more ballast!