Saturday 16 June 2012 But running late with Post; very cold with very heavy frost ce matin. Winter is here. Rain, rain, rain Although only 6.6 mm according to my weather app; it seems much more as it has been raining loudly most of the day. I have more or less stayed in bed, my mother bravely going to Lithgow for the newspapers this afternoon. I will go tomorrow for the Sunday papers and some firewood. One blog I have been reading is Wishing I Were in France by Martine, a Belgian lady who lives in a village outside Brussels who has just spent a week in the Loire which has many photos of Amboise and other parts of the Loire which we visited last October (and which we would happily visit again). She also seems to have experienced quite a bit of unseasonal rain, echoed by other bloggers living in the Loire/Touraine area. Our rain isn't especially unseasonal - it seems that it can rain anytime here; we didn't seem to get our usual early autumn dry spell in March but had some dry weather in May. I have given up worrying about the rain here; wait long enough and there will be plenty. We haven't yet needed to buy water for the tanks (no town water here) but no doubt we will have to one day, but not today or tomorrow. It is not especially cold although it feels coldish, the effect of damp no doubt. Though it certainly isn't hot. Link to Martine's blog:  I'll shortly list the various blogs I have been reading recently once I reacquaint myself with how to give the correct location.