You don’t need us to tell you that ‘Climate Change’ has now very firmly become ‘Climate Changed’.
With the northern hemisphere burning this summer in a never-ending stream of record-breaking heatwave after record-breaking heatwave, who knows what violent extremes of winter storms the super-charged atmosphere might have in store for us this winter.
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We have a confession. When we first moved to The Secret Acre we had lots of parties and events, from Wassails and Apple Days to folk dances and birthday bashes. But then came the Covid hiatus, and since then we kind of got out of the habit, until one of us suffered a big birthday last year.
With that birthday restart behind us, and a significant anniversary looming this year, we did our best to rediscover our full-on party mojo.
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Since ditching fossil fuels for our driving six year back, we are now on our third generation Renault Zoe with a 200+ mile range, which does for all our needs, and thanks to the Zappi charger and the Solar Panels our miles are mostly completely free.
But one thing we haven’t in all that time, is take the electric car abroad. Until last month, and a French holiday in La Rochelle, when instead of taking the train as usual, we decided to take the ferry from the beautiful wildlife haven of Poole Harbour and drive down. Queue a return to range anxiety and worries about using an unknown network!
How did we get on?
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