France: an English summer?

In France this summer, we had the result of global warming! The summer has been rotten. Except at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, everywhere else the weather has been execrable: rain, wind, and snow in the mountains with low temperatures. Apart from short periods, the tourists or holidaymakers have not been lucky: deserted beaches, evenings by the fireside, ‘compelled’ museum visits, games and long stays inside pubs…. Sun lotion was not necessary, sweaters, mackintoshes and ponchos replaced them. At the edge of the Mediterranean Sea if there has not been rain for four months the weather has been windy and the water rather fresh…Sometimes in high winds people ran away from the beaches because the sand was stinging their eyes and their body.
The funny thing is that some meteorologists learnedly said at the beginning of this year there would be a heat wave in August and we would be short of water! We have seen the result! When specialists are not able to forecast the weather for the next day, then for the coming months and years it is pure chance…
In French popular memory such weather is to compare with the one they think they could find in England (maybe rightly so!!!)

Claude

Sorry to have lost !

Last Saturday was a gloomy evening for French people. We lost the rugby match against our ‘best centuries-old foe’…We lost because our team was not the best or the English players were! Never mind, for me it is just a game. It wasn’t the case for everybody if you looked at the appearance of people after the match in the television report. The excitement was finished and sometimes some people were crying…. The pub’s customers were not numerous nor, of course, the consumption of beer or other alcoholic drinks (Poor pub managers and their turnovers)! I am sure there has been a positive transfer to … England with probably the hangovers too!!!

Well done to your team and good luck for next Saturday.

Claude.