Last Saturday we saw the first crocuses flowering. Yesterday it was windy and rather mild. This morning it is snowing. “But it won’t last,” the forecasters say!

I, Frimousse, will stay in the armchair for a quarter of an hour, or half an hour maybe. RouXy will be here pretty soon now. My Mistress has gone to work in her red car. She’s phoned to say the road was okay. She’s just had to follow the snowplough…