Happens now and then - I wake up at around 4.30am and tune into the Radio before deciding there's no point in staying in bed - mind too active....! Others probably know the situation, so after breakfast and watching the latest "news" you get to reflecting on what's going on. This morning, already at "Radio" time, still in bed, I heard that it was more or less miserable in France, weather-wise, either raining, or about to, quite chilly, I recalled WHY I live where I do. I still was basking in 15C at 4.30am, it hadn't rained    and wasn't about to either! The further South you go, said the man on the radio, the better you'll have it - all weekend! True - it's rare that it rains for longer than a day constantly. If it does, then after 3 days, it is taken as a personal affront! It is rare, apart from maybe a week or so at the end of January, start of February, that the temperatures fall below 10-15C. When you've got arthritis problems, y...