As I sit here on a quiet and very pleasant Sunday afternoon, enjoying my lunch and a glass of a very fine chilled rosé under the shade of the gazebo, I am looking out over the garden, or what is left of it! It seems only the other day when everything was fresh and green, the grass needing twice-weekly cuts and I could get away with watering the vegetable patch either every other day or just once in the evening. After about 6 weeks of summer heat and temps hovering around the 30c mark, the garden has taken on the air of a parched, ever browning space. There was a week of intense heat in that period with 40c+ which compounded the dryness. With water restrictions looming and no end to the heat and dry, my focus has been to keep the vegetable patch watered (now an am and pm exercise). The grass is brown, the soil in the flowerbeds is cracked and as hard as rock, and the leaves are wilting under the searing sun. Of course, the chances are it will all recover in time but not before we have another canicule (heatwave). I doubt it will be the last.
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For those of you that don’t know my region, I am in the 41c area (central SW France). It’s going be a bit of a scorcher and no doubt Maggie and I will get ‘walkies’ done very early in the day and last thing at night.
A Bientot!
La Petite Rue 
Oh yes. I remember those blazing days. We, let’s be honest. They could sometimes be too much of a good thing, non? Currently watching the Tour de France. It’s not my thing, but they’re in our former back yard today.
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Blazing it is! But I think you are experiencing a heatwave in the UK…but perhaps not in your part of the country.
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Oh yes. 30 today. Which you might think is refreshingly cool….
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Unofficially it reached 46c in the garden, but it is an enclosed garden, so little chance of any air movement. 30c sounds bliss! LOL
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41! Quite a scorcher of a year.
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Scorcher indeed….was 30c before 9 am and expecting 42c this afternoon.
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I guess you need a shady tree, or air conditioning
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Hiding inside (with dog), ceiling fans whirring, shutters closed and lots of fluids on tap!
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