Posts by Benjamin Dickins

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…

A couple of weeks have passed since my last blog, and, from the list of possible reasons when I don’t write, this time we have been away – again, I hear you howl! I know it has only been a couple of weeks since we had our BIG adventure in Argentina, but, obviously, we don’t…

Last week was the first, of what I hope won’t be many weeks, when I didn’t write a blog for 2023.  Apologies. You may recall some of the reasons why I don’t write a blog and last week it fell very much into the, I haven’t progressed enough to show any progress.  Which, when you…

Short and (hopefully) sweet this week! I said in last week’s blog that I hadn’t started taking down the Christmas decorations as we still had guests stay with us until last Saturday.  Thankfully, it seems that the French don’t have the same tradition of having to take decorations down before Twelfth Night to avoid bad…

In last week’s blog I resolved (the most appropriate word considering what date it was) to be better at writing my regular blog, 2022 having been fairly poor.  So, 2 weeks in I can say I am doing better. One resolution fulfilled at least! This week’s blog however, won’t be especially long, and I am…