When we arrived back at lunchtime on the 31st January we were having coldest spell for three years, it was -2C when we reached La Basse Cour. It had been -4C in Porcaro when we collected the cats - rather surprised at being taken from their centrally heated pens at the cattery and plunged into the cold outside temperatures.
The barn was a cool 13C on arrival but a combination of the underfloor heating and the two wood burners had the temperature up to normal in a remarkable 4 hours. I'll blog further on our heating arrangements in the future but so far it doesn't seem as if we'll be too uncomfortable even when the temperature gets down to -6C (as it had done the night before according to our neighbour Patrick, who's a farmer so he ought to know).
Today it's been sunny and 14C, I spent the afternoon sitting on the terrasse in the sun as I checked and tested our Christmas lights which we took down today. Very pleasant.
The sunset wasn't a spectacular one but this picture was taken at ten past six in the evening, slowly the evenings are beginning to lengthen - soon be summer again!
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