... over my jeans and sweater and drinking hot chocolate to try to keep warm.
I've just taken an electric radiator down to our guests in the cottage. The underfloor heating is off (after all it is summer) and it takes too long to warm up when it's switched back on. They need the warmth right now. The cold and the persistent drizzle means that there is no incentive to go out and so they are huddled on the sofa in the lounge (reluctantly so far as the wife is concerned) watching football on the TV.
Difficult to believe it's supposed to be thirty degrees by Tuesday.
We've been here before. In 2010 we lit the wood fire in the lounge. It's tempting to do so again this evening.
Yesterday, in Leclerc's their musak was blasting out Winter Wonderland. Strange to be wandering around in June to the sound of "In the meadow we will build a snowman". I try to explain this to the girl on the till. From her expression I'm guessing she thought I was struggling with my French vocabulary. I'll save this for a discussion point at our next Zoom French lesson.
Maybe the musak company knows something about climate change that the rest of us don't.
