For our first Christmas in France we have been blessed with fine weather. Temperatures in their late teens and clear blue skies. We had our children and grandchildren with us and we took the opportunity to have our Christmas Dinner outside. The bulbs planted a month ago are beginning to push through, bumble bees contine to go about their business and we have been able to contine with working outdoors. We have been assured by friends and neighbours that it is not always like this and we have been told to expect the weather to bite back in the New Year!