Selling off the family silver
Everyone here has an opinion about last year’s weather. I am waiting (patiently...patiently) for the really hot days to start. We’ve...
Of ghosts and magic spookfulness
When we planned the poetry retreat to be held in Autumn, we had in mind just the weather we are enjoying how. The intense summer heat...
...all too short a date;
Although barely the middle of August, It’s hard not to feel that the Summer* is drawing to an end here. This might be because this...
When the rains came (?)
Last night there was rain. For weeks now the relentless heat has scorched the grass and shrivelled flowers before they had a chance to...
The heat goes on
I wrote about Michael roberts lovely poem, Hymn to the Sun, before the astonishing heatwave hit us here in Correze. I love the way this...
Summer elsewhere...
Hymn to the Sun 'Voy wawm' said the dustman one bright August morning - But that was in Longbenton, under the trees. He was Northumbrian,...