Seriously?

The tail end of Hurricane Katya has hit the UK, especially the north. It's been pretty bad down here, so I can't imagine what it's been like up there.

I was just watching a report on the BBC news, with a reporter who called it Hurricane Cattier. Mmm. OK. Not too bad.

Somehow, though, I think she has completely misunderstood for all her life what you do to secure your premises in the face of a severe storm.

She said people were "battering down the hatches".

Deary, I think that's what they were expecting the storm to do, which is why they were battening them down.

How do these people get jobs as reporters for the organisation that's supposed to represent the best of the English language? How do they even get the Oxbridge degrees that get them those jobs?