C’est quoi cette poussière jaune?

Last night our car was covered in a yellow dust so this morning I decided to clean it.

But when I went to have a look a couple of hours later it was covered again in this infernal yellow powder.

This is not the same stuff as Saharan sand that blows in regularly leaving everything orange.

This jaune nuisance seemed to be everywhere – on the patio, other cars, on the roadsides. What on earth was it?

We suspected pollen – from the mimosas? From anything yellow in fact.

But then we remembered.

If there’s one thing in abundance round here it is pine trees. And they have caused problems before with their needles.

So we went to examine some of them and their budding pine cones. And guess what came out?

So we are now pointing the figure of blame at the pine trees and their pollen.

No more car washing for the time being.