Cal Poly - College in Paradise and the Weather to Prove It. Expect sun. Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo have only have an average 50 days of rain per year - almost all of it between November and end of March. (It really does rain in California. Sometimes.) Central Coast residents revel in the area's Mediterranean climate.
Jailed: Iain Hardy, who attempted to bludgeon his wife to death. 1  A husband who tried to bludgeon his wife to death whom he met on Friends Reunited has been jailed for 12 years. 2  Iain Hardy, 40, attacked his wife with a hammer because he was worried she would discover his financial woes.
Max Gate is the former home of Thomas Hardy and is located on the outskirts of Dorchester, Dorset, England. Hardy designed and lived in Max Gate from 1885 until his death in 1928. He lived there with his first wife Emma, and then with his second wife Florence. It was there that he wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure and The Mayor of Casterbridge, as well as much of his poetry.