It's no exaggeration to say that the roads around here are dangerous. Every time I drive to Sommieres, a distance of 15 kilometers, almost without exception, I see an 'incident' involving dangerous driving by a French local. Today was yet another example, with a car trying to overtake a line of cars (this time coming towards me) and I had to slam on my brakes. France has a very high mortality rate on its roads and they talk about all kinds of measures, like keeping headlights on and enforcing speed restrictions. None of this will make a scrap of difference. Keeping your lights on during the day will not stop people behaving dangerously. The only thing that will help is to have a national programme of electric shock therapy or brain transplants for male drivers between the ages of 20 and 60.
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My elderly Italian aunt always said that the weather in August would change around the 15th, the Feast of the Assumption. Well blow me, but it has today (12th) changed. The temperature has dropped from 31 C yesterday to 24 C today and the outlook for the rest of the week is similar. All this is not good news for our friends the Warrens who arrived en masse for a short stay this afternoon. The journey from Calais took about 18 hours when normally 11 hours would be sufficient. Thinking that they would beat the traffic they drove overnight but found the service stations completely jammed even at 4 in the morning. Anyway, they arrived safe and sound, at 6 in the afternoon, ready for bed! Bless.
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