Déjà vu all over again, Rodney

I am typing this at the end of the day and when I looked out of my window a few minutes ago it was still quite light. I realised that although today has been the Mayday holiday here in France, I’ve been indoors almost the whole time with my little fan heater running to keep me warm. So although the days are getting longer, they’re slipping by because of the horrible cold, wet weather that we’re getting that’s keeping us from going outside very much and, more importantly, from flying.

I thought I’d take a quick look back at what was happening this time last year and lo and behold I was saying almost the same thing. On 12 May, I was posting about how temperatures in the region of 11 degrees Celsius were anticipated in the days to come and how long the rain had been going on for, so it looks as though we’re getting a bit of a re-run of last year. The difference however, is that last year I had several jobs in and on the house that were tying me up quite a lot and I also had neither a flyable aircraft nor my French licence, so even when the weather did begin to pick up, my opportunities to get airborne were rather limited to say the least.

So this year I’ve decided that things will be different. OK, I will press on with the jobs that I have to do, like building my new shelters for my firewood and garden equipment and fixing my wood burner flue, which are, admittedly, a bit difficult to do all the while the rainy weather continues. But I’m also determined to get as much flying in as I possibly can. This means that other jobs, like putting in a new path along the front of my house, will have to wait. But so be it. I can’t do everything at once and flying was, after all, one of my priorities when I decided to come to France. So after the measly few hours that I got in last year, I have a bit of catching up to do, and as soon as the weather changes, that’s what I intend to do. Even if that won’t be until the beginning of June if last year is what we’re having to go by 😐