SUNDAY 4TH MARCH Today has turned quite windy, ’tho dry and sunny but yesterday was yet another in a long line of beautiful days in the P-O and my last day of stuffing my face…
Friday 3rd February Aie! Ca caille, ça pèle…. It is decidedly chilly at the moment – well into the minuses I am told, although here in my toasty office, I can’t feel a thing. It’s dry and…
December 16th What can I say about December so far? Fantastic? Warm, dry, sunny, fresh, envigorating…… absolutely delicious? The leaves are only just beginning to fall off the trees around Maureillas, the world still clothed in…
Monday 20th November Wet, wet, wet! To say it’s raining would be a bit of an understatement. Whamming, pelting and wazzing it down seems to describe it quite well. Flooding, flowing, gushing, rushing, spilling, spouting,…
Sunday October 2nd It’s a blazing hot summer day outside, more like June or July, so I’ll be brief, a few quick words before I thrust myself back onto the Dad-entertainment circuit and head off…
Monday 19th September There’s snow on the Canigou – Whooooppppeeeeeee Wow! There’s snow on the Canigou! After a day of heavy rains yesterday, (the day I brought my Papa back from Leeds for a spot of…
Saturday 9th July has shimmied in on a flurry of sunshine and golden promises, and the rain and storms of June are a distant memory, as we now complain of the heat and long for some…
Wednesday June 1st Well, summer is still around but a stiff Tramontane is keeping the temperatures right down at the moment, and though it could certainly not be described as cold, it LOOKS and SOUNDS chilly out…
Sunday 8th I think I kind of zapped April this year! So much going on, the good, the bad and the ugly – a little bit of pay-back for the wall to wall sunshine that has flooded…
Thursday 10th March Yes, I know I made a load of promises in the New Year to write regularly but I seem to have lost the art of time juggling recently, and when I manage…