The weather is so mixed

Friday 13th April

For this time of year the weather is so mixed.  It has really been unseasonably cold here in France.  I was here last year at Easter, (admittedly it fell a couple of weeks later) and it was beautiful.  And it is here too, when the sun comes out.  Unfortunately that has been sporadic to say the least.  We have had rain and overcast thick broiling dark clouds for most of the holiday with occasional outbursts of sunshine.  And when the sun comes out it is charming and pretty, but still not exactly warm.  The local residents we have spoken to say that the Winter was the worst in living memory, and Spring was a month late, so I suppose that that must be the reason, but it certainly feels more like early March than April.   And when it rains it really rains here, great deluges of driving hard little pellets which cut right through your clothing and chill you to the core.

Apparently it has been even worse for you in England, which gives some small comfort I am sorry to say.  If one goes away on holiday especially to somewhere which traditionally has better weather, one does hope to be served up slightly better rations than one gets at home.  The irony is that annoyingly whenever one mentions the inclement and cold weather to any of the locals they shake their heads and say, “Mais oui, c’est incroyable” and go on to explain that why, only two weeks ago it was twenty-five degrees and beautiful sunshine.