Posts by Benjamin Dickins

At the end of last week’s blog I mentioned that the forecast was looking much more favourable for a productive week, and, thankfully, so it turned out to be.  It was, by some significant margin, the warmest and driest week we have had this year with no rain at all since last Sunday, and so…

I don’t know where the last 2 weeks have gone!  I didn’t blog last Sunday as the weather had been so poor in the preceding week we hadn’t achieved too much. As it had continued to be wet and not very cold, everything continued to grow furiously, especially the lawns that we had scarified and…

Last week’s blog showed the good progress the roofers had made in a single week replacing Stable’s roof. Even with last Monday being a public holiday, they have now almost completed the job – just a couple of finishing touches to be done on Tuesday – tomorrow is also a public holiday! We are very…

At the end of last week’s blog, I said that we hoped to be able to start a major project that we have wanted (needed?) to do for a couple of years, or at least have someone else start the project for us. The project was to replace the roof on Stable, our chambre d’hôte…

Last week’s blog ended with the hope that the weather would remain fine (as it had been forecast) and, if 2018 was any sort of pattern when I was last digging trenches in front of the garage, then we could expect some days of 20 degree heat. Thankfully, at least until today, we have continued…

Re-reading the last blog I posted 2 weeks ago, there are some similarities to what I said then to what has occurred in the last couple of weeks. Then, I said that we had just endured Storm Mathis which brought strong winds but no damage. Last week the forecast was for Storm Noa to pass…

About the only thing that has changed since my last blog are the clocks! I ended the blog saying that the following week’s forecast was looking a bit iffy, but hoped that the dry breaks between the rain would be getting longer.  You may have guessed from my lack of blog last week – they…

Apologies for not writing a blog last week.  The previous week, I said that if the forecast turned out to be accurate, it would mean my work would need to be undercover.  Surprisingly(!), the forecast was spot on and the last 2 weeks have been mostly wet and grotty.  Not great news for our guests.…

There were 2 things I wrote in last week’s blog that I regret now!  The first was that we didn’t get too wet on our dog walk last Sunday.  While this is technically true, last Monday I started feeling really awful; feverish, achy muscles and generally rubbish.  I didn’t think that I had got too…

During the last week, France has raised significant concerns that 2023 will be as dry as the record-breaking droughts experienced last year.  The recent winter has been the driest France has experienced in the last 60 years. Météo France said that between 21 January and 21 February there had been no precipitation at all in…