Hi there, I am also living and gardening in Normandy! Further west than you though, near to Vire in Calvados. Today the weather has been completely mad - very strong winds, blazing sunshine, heavy showers with thunder & black skies. I am trying to get my potatoes harvested (we had colorado beetle this year!!!) & sorted into usable & 'to be burnt'. My tomatoes all failed - the early ones because they fried in the heat of June/July, and the later ones because of blight - the only successful plant was a Red Robin tomato bush that I bought on a whim in Leclerc Jardi - it had lovely, if tiny, fruit.
Judi.