Whilst you lot are enjoying lovely cool, and dare I say, freezing weather, spare a thought for those of us coping with extreme heat and humidity and Autumn months away. The carpets are so damp you could ring them out, wooden floors appear to have a sheen of water on them. Watching clothing closely so that mould does not take hold and the air con is doing it's best but failing badly. At times like this I think about what our early settlers must have felt when they disembarked.
They left home in winter and arrived to the hot summer weather of Australia. One of the crew members of the first fleet wrote 'that even the birds in the trees laugh at us', a reference no doubt to the cry of the kookaburra. I have always maintained that because of the decisions of those who have gone before me that I was born in the wrong country.
Anyone want to house swap for awhile?
Farmer John, I don't think that his thread is going to close down anytime soon.
