Four days in fact. (View Post)

In any case, surely people will plan different sorts of holidays. So they won't drive to France, particularly not on the first weekend of the school holidays. That will cut the queues. And French tou… (View Post)

Raising leafy plants under lights is very popular, the previous tenants in the flat above me used to do it, until the police for some reason took exception and raided it quite dramatically. Well, dra… (View Post)

Interestingly a colleague from the south of France reckons the siesta is not so much to avoid the heat of the day, it's to catch up on sleep when it's too hot to sleep before midnight but you still w… (View Post)

The evidence of the recent red storm warning is probably that they feel they need to over-egg things in an attempt to get people to behave sensibly. A friend who is an A&E doctor treated a number… (View Post)