The big freeze

Ste Christine
Yesterday's weather: Dire.

Yesterday's weather was just awful. In sympathy with the UK but not nearly as bad, we had rain nearly all day.

We listened to the dreadful stories on Radio 4 yesterday evening. The horrors of flooding we just can't imagine. It must be dreadful to see all your possessions completely ruined, whether people have insurance or not doesn't help when personal items like photographs are lost forever. It makes me think that I must back up all our photos onto CD as soon as I can. But that's the problem isn't it? 'As soon as I can' might be too late. It brings to mind again the question often asked 'What would you save first?' I have to say the cats, obviously, but photos and trinkets would be next on my list.

We had a bit of a disaster yesterday. Jon went to the freezer to get some prawns and discovered that I hadn't properly shut the door the day before and loads of food was beginning to defrost. Luckily not everything but we had suddenly to cook lots of dishes to stock the freezer for the next few weeks. Into the freezer goes cassoulet, chicken dishes, pork and apple casserole, Bolognaise sauce...... Now we know what's on the menu for the next month.