Re: The struggle is real :-)
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On 16 Jul 2021, at 07:38, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote: Yes, we feel very fortunate to have found this place. ?My wife¡¯s father was born and brought up in the town of Beaminster, a few miles south, as was his father before him. ?There¡¯s a hill, Beaminster Down between Corscombe and Beaminster, which divides the weather many times in year, it appears. ?We¡¯ve been here only since March, but apparently the village is quite frequently snowbound; I have a 4x4 (well, a BMW X3 ;-)) so we should be OK, even though the lanes to the south are quite steep. Our house is on the hillside so there¡¯s a downslope to negotiate as well in slippery weather, at the bottom of which is the local pub (The Fox, owned by celeb chef Mark Hix), but then it¡¯s level ground to Yeovil in the north. ?We¡¯re not out in the bundu as you are, but it¡¯s very pleasantly secluded. We feel for those poor people in the Eifel and Rhineland of Germany. ?It can¡¯t have been many years ago that much of central Europe was under water; we¡¯re going to have to be ready for these extreme weather events. Chris
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