The weather has really decided to take turn over the last couple of weeks in our little corner of France. After July the sun shone and almost not a drop of rain fell, now in November the sky has thrown nothing but rain at us. From ground where you would need a kango to make an impression and where carrots refused to grow down into the baked soil, we now have ground that does not know if it should be liquid or solid.
I know we have fared much better than lots of people in both the UK and France in that we have not had any flooding, and it is highly unlikely to happen to us as we live the top of incline that runs down to the River Charente some 7km away, if we are under water the entire Cognac industry would be devastated, not to mention 10s of 1000s of people loosing homes & livelihoods, so we should count ourselves fortunate, though it does not stop us moaning about the weather.
One remarkable thing about our recent weather is that it is not cold, they are not reaching the heights of 30 degrees that we saw in October, we are still regularly reaching between 15 an 18 degrees, though when we left to drive to Angouleme this morning the car was showing an outside temp of 1 degree, so maybe that is a sign of winter arriving, but atleast that will hopefully mean the sun will make a welcome reappearance.
Being a bit of a snow-a-holic I have been monitoring the mountain ranges in France for the start of the snow fall for the winter season, and the Alps are doing well, the first snows of the winter have fallen in the Massif Central and it looks like the Pyrenees are get in on the act as well with a good covering. I am hoping to do atleast one weekend in the snow this season so Fleur can have a go a sledging and maybe skiing too, we will have to see what the winter snows bring..
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