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Global warming is the biggest issue affecting our planet today and, although we have had our truly cold spells this winter it seems a long time since snow had lain on our village paths for any period of time. Indeed towards mid-day the sun shines on our valley with almost spring-like intensity and wild daffodils are appearing in the woods.
Certainly the weather is not what it used to be when I first arrived here almost fifteen years ago and it is very worrying. Some things we don’t miss of course: those sheets of ice and burst water pipes, for example, but I just wonder what spring will bring us – last year expensive forest fires occurred in the tinder-dry undergrowth – and as for summer…should I arrange a holiday in Iceland?
One thing I’ll look forwards to is the Viareggio Carnival. The extraordinary huge mechanised papier Mache floats are world famous and their grand parade will take place on the following days this year:
Something absolutely not to be missed and something to take one’s mind off the awful event which will involve the lowering of one national flag at the European parliament. For how long I wonder?
