The rain in Spain...

...fell mostly on the Alpujarra last week, when our unfortunate guests from Paris were staying. The brilliant AE Met weather forecast site for Juviles has a great feature - it gives you a percentage of probablility of precipitation. Last week it was between 50 and 90% depending on the day, and this week it's between 0 and 5%. It also has max. and min. temperatures, wind speed and direction, UV index and provincial snowline level in altitude, which for most of the winter hovers about 1,600m but occasionally zooms down to us at 1,200m. By contrast, the best the BBC can do for Glasgow tomorrow is the rather unscientific safe bet of "heavy rain". I spoke to our guests though, and they loved the place despite the weather. Hopefully they'll go home and encourage all their Parisian pals to book our house for next summer, when of course it will be too hot to move.

Incidentally it's a myth that only the British talk about the weather. In my personal experience the Spaniards, the French and the Americans never shut up about it, and I understand it's a national obsession in Japan.