22/02/2018 Out for a drive and meeting friends.

Maximum temperature today 6C, minimum -2C.  Dry, but total rain since 1 Jan is now 279 mm; 16 km/h winds with up to 43 km/h gusts.

We now officially have the wettest winter on record in 60 years, which was when  rain gauges were first  set up in France!

The drive was actually yesterday, but I did not get around to getting it on the blog.  There was a very strange light when we left home.  The ground is so wet and cold and suddenly we had some blue skies and a little sun.  This seemed to make the ground steam and everything had a strange misty look about it.

You can  see steam rising in this photo behind the parked tractors.

Just another road obstruction!

Hopefully, these trees will soon be in bud, but they still look pretty lifeless at the moment.  The only green comes from moss on the branches and ivy climbing up many of them.

Arriving at Busseroles in the Dordogne.

Wall art in the restaurant where we met friends...  No, this is 4 Frenchmen also enjoying a good meal.

 As above.

Driving home through Piégut-Pluviers, this is the town hall.

(Piégut is pronounced Pee-ay-goo!)

The church in Piégut-Pluviers.  I angled this shot a bit high and picked up some tinted windscreen!!

All the dams and lakes are full to overflowing.

A little green here with a couple of evergreens.

Not sure which town this was, but just as we were driving out I saw this spectacular WWI memorial.  Maybe we will find it again one day!

The only photo taken today - I made some biscotti biscuits.   A number of years back, friends of ours in South Africa had them as a dessert with a glass of sweet wine to dip them in.  Very yummy! We must get some sweet wine, which is something we do not usually have in the house.