Weather

Looks like the summer’s over. One day we were sweltering with the temperature up in the high twenties/low thirties, next day we were shivering and lighting our pellet stove.

Looks like Damaris may have missed out on her last swim in the outside pool. Despite the solar water heaters, the water is just too cold and last time she swam in water like that (Cambridge) she was laid up for days with agonising back pains. We can’t take the chance. Now we need to get the internal pool finished but our plumber left us on Saturday saying he’d be back in a day or two to clear it all up and now we’ve found out he’s going to be off for at least a month with a hernia operation scheduled for Wednesday! That is typical Umbrian.

It won’t be long now until the leaves start falling off the trees and bunging up the guttering once again. The wind has changed from the South West to a Northerly which means it is coming right off the mountains. They even have a name for it (which no doubt I will spell incorrectly) – the Tramontana. All I know is that it is bleeding cold when you get caught in it. We copped -12C last winter and with that wind blowing as well, we might as well have been at one of the poles.

We had a barbeque tonight but it was too cold to eat outside so we took it into the kitchen. Seems a bit daft, that.