I mentioned in an earlier posting that there is a distinct community spirit in our new home. We were reminded again of this yesterday. This picture accurately illustrates the weather we have been having:
That was Boxing Day – it’s been like this on and off since, although it is raining now. Anyway, yesterday, we tried to go out. Having swapped the vehicles around, we decided that even using the diesel, it just wasn’t worth the effort and went back inside.
A few moments later there was a knock at the door. One of our neighbours having observed us getting ready to go out and then going back inside was concerned. Had we enough food in the house? She enquired. We assured her that we had and that our journey wasn’t necessary enough to warrant going out in the increasingly bad weather. We thanked her for her concern and she went away happy.
We lived in Bristol for twenty one years and barely spoke to our neighbours, much less have one of them knock on the door to make sure we had enough provisions. It’s different here. I think I may just settle in nicely.
That looks like a clear case of “natural fluctuations masking the underlying warming trend” to me.
If all this Global Warming continues, you might need one of these.
Happy new year.
“We lived in Bristol for twenty one years and barely spoke to our neighbours, much less have one of them knock on the door to make sure we had enough provisions. It’s different here.”
It was once different here, too. Let’s hope the French manage to avoid doing whatever it was that we did…