Not a Brass Monkey in Sight!

Would you believe it? We've the coldest weather in France here and even Scotland is warmer. It was a bit of an effort to get out this evening to attend a meeting about the forthcoming visit of out twin town from Normandy. What made it worse was that quite a bit of patience was needed while the organisers trawled through a long list of who was going to "put up" whom. We have three people with us and the other two who asked to stay as well were allocated elsewhere. I think the organisers were trying to alleiviate the load but they are a couple that we were more than ready to have stay but we could hardly go to battle with the couple who said they'd have them!