It's amazing how localised the weather is here. I remember when I told a man who had a garden near my rented house, when I arrived over 17 years ago in Partaloa, that I'd bought a house in Somontin. He shook his head, sucked in his teeth and told me Somontin is Mucho Frio con Nieve. I didn't believe him and do wish now I'd listened to him. The very first winter was when I had a metre of snow, no electric and was cut off for 5 days, unable to get over the snow that the plough had dumped right in front of my car... I hadn't bargained on minus 10 when I moved here - I hadn't had that on the farm near Wivenhoe.
