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9 October 2022

Oh my goodness – it’s been a busy week. Or, at least it seems like it’s been a busy week, even though we’ve not really been anywhere special or significant.

This week we have mainly been enjoying the company of my sister Sallie and her husband Rod who are visiting from Utah by way of Croatia and Switzerland. It’s always lovely when they visit and it gets us out and about to sites old and new.

25 September 2022

It’s been a good week with some really nice days toward the end. Thursday, Friday and Saturday were glorious. Warm(ish) or at least pleasantly mild with bright blue skies, puffy clouds and a gentle breeze. It does feel a bit autumnal in the mornings and evenings and many of the trees are already showing what passes for colour in these parts (but that could partly be a result of how dry a summer we had). Let’s hope for more of the same.

18 September 2022

It’s been a decent enough week – still no rain of any significant amount although we’ve had a few smatterings. The landscape is beginning to green up again and on Thursday I even had to mow the lawns – I think that’s the first time since July!

11 September 2022

It’s been a mixture of showers and sunny intervals this week – good for the garden and the reservoirs, not much good when it pelts down in a torrent when you’re in the middle of a field walking the dog! The grass is greening up nicely and will soon need a mow, the first since mid-July, I think. I would be a lot happier if it would rain at night and keep dry during the day but I guess that’s too much to ask.

4 September 2022

It’s been a good(ish) week. Still no rain of any significance but, allegedly, we may see some this afternoon. The sun is going down earlier every day and there is the occasional Autumnal feel to some of the evenings and early mornings. I guess it won’t be long before someone asks me to put the central heating on – not sure we can afford it this year.

28 August 2022

It’s been a (reasonably) good week. Thankfully, the sweltering heat of last week has dissipated but we are still in need some (more) rain. There have been deluges in other parts of the country and even some steady more moderate rain in some parts but we’ve seen almost nothing. We’ve had a few light, brief overnight sprinkles and it gently rained for an hour or so on Thursday afternoon but still not enough to penetrate the rock-hard ground. Quelle merde!

21 August 2022

Phew! Non-scorcio! What a relief – the scorcio temperatures have abated somewhat and the rain, when it finally came on Tuesday evening, was pleasant and gentle. Unlike in some parts of the country which experienced torrential downpours, floods and waterspouts! Better for the garden but still a long, long ways to go.

14 August 2022

Scorcio! Scorcio! Scorcio maximo, maximo! My goodness, it’s been hot, hot, hot. The countryside around and about is a crispy tinderbox and we’ve been “enjoying” hot sunny days with temperatures into the mid-30s and not a cloud in the sky. The weather people say we “might” get a spot of rain this coming week and it will be cooler but they also say the drought (officially declared on Friday) may well last until October. (I’m not sure how they know that but it is certainly out of the ordinary for the British to be begging for rain).

7 August 2022

Scorcio! Scorcio! Scorcio maximo! Just back from a few days in Paris with Ben, Brex-Anna and Max where it was blisteringly, swelteringly hot but somehow, we still managed to have a great time.

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