Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle

Author:Peter Mayle [Mayle, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-79189-4
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

At the beginning of 1990, we were sent the weather statistics for the previous year. Despite an unusually wet November, our annual rainfall was less than half the normal amount.

There has been another mild winter. The water levels are still below what they should be, and it is estimated that as much as 30 percent of the undergrowth in the forest is dead, and therefore dry. The first big fire of summer destroyed more than 6,000 acres near Marseille, cutting off the autoroute in two places. And the madman with the briquet is still at large; probably, like us, taking a keen interest in the weather forecasts.

We have bought a heavy-gauge tin box to hold all those pieces of paper—passports, attestations, birth certificates, contrats, permis, old electricity bills—that are essential in France to prove your existence. To lose the house in a fire would be a disaster, but to lose our identities at the same time would make life impossible. The tin box is going in the farthest corner of the cave, next to the Châteauneuf.

Every time it rains we’re delighted, which Faustin takes as a promising sign that we are becoming less English.

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