This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Bachelor to the South of France to

ascertain my good colleague of many years Simon Constable, an Englishman in the

South of France, reporting first on climate. Remember now, Simon grew up in the

north of Britain, the north of England, and he is accustomed to racing to the

sunshine, come spring and summer, except Simon, a very good day to you in the

South of France. It turns out you're somewhat south of what you were used to as a

child. How's the temperature, how's the intensity of the Sun? What does an

Englishman do when he has to go outside in the South of France? Good evening to you

Simon. Good evening to you John. An Englishman or an Englishwoman would do well to

hide in this heat when the Sun is up early and it's very hot. The temperature

now is around 102 and it will go up to 103. That's Fahrenheit. It feels very, very

hot. There is no breeze where we live at the moment. So you're sitting there. It's

not too humid, but it is very hot. So you need to drink a heck of a lot of water

and wear a wide brim to straw hat to keep the Sun off you. Otherwise you're

going to just burn up. But I guess that's better than being freezing cold.

Yes, much better. Let's talk about the immediate environment in the summertime. If there's

very little rain, the leaves turn as early as middle of August. Have your leaves started

to turn in your forest? Absolutely they have. There are a lot of deciduous trees on our

property and they've already started curling up and dropping, dropping onto payments and

things like that. So collecting them up and getting them out of the way is a key thing

to do. There aren't many coniferous trees here. So not many pines at all, but certainly

a lot of oaks. There's massive horse chestnut tree. The horse chestnuts have not fallen

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