Does Nature always punish the uppity people? Or does she just like to play tricks?
I'm not very happy looking at my Bordeaux vineyard. About 20% of bunches have shrivelled to nothing. That's 20% crop gone already. Because 27th June, the temperature here hit 42°C and the sun whacked every bunch it could see.
Our slower neighbours didn't suffer so much because they had not, like us keenies, already stripped off leaves to expose our bunches. This is – or was – considered best practice in a region where damp is a problem. Let the drying winds in is the idea.
You try to get clever with Nature; she confounds you! Ho ho.
After the heat wave and drought we had weeks of rain. Don't know where we are. I'm obviously in farmer mode: moaning.
Best get back to writing.
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