realised I've yet to post my yearly homage to the glorious W.
This year we had a slow start to the proper weather, with autumn feeling a little bit like an extended summer (bler). even the trees were confused, and had to rush through their routine at the 11th hour - it was all green leaves up until the closing weeks, then quick flashes of scarlet and amber (bewdiful), then a week or two of swooshing through the leaves (the kids still love to get out amongst the freshly raked piles - god bless 'em), then bare branches. We're now well into frost season here (yay bananas with sugar on top!), and mornings are crystalline and sharp enough to make you feel like a 20 year old after 12 hours sleep and a strong coffee :D. We're bounding out of bed (what choice is there anyway - with unheated bedrooms) and meeting every day with ear to ear grins here. I'm spending most of the day outdoors now, too, pottering in the garden, working on my newest toy (!!), bracing walks with friends, etc. So loverly after the summer hibernation - freedom!!
Now I'll repeat myself and say that yet again, I'm surprised by how much less cold this version of cold actually feels. Which is a good thing and a bad thing, in equal measures. On one hand it means we no longer bother heating the house apart from an hour in the mornings, and the fire for a couple of hours of an evening. This is a HUGE saving, environmentally and pocketmentally. On the other hand, it's hard to feel properly cold now unless we swan about outside in a t-shirt at 7am. Either way, GOD BLESS WINTER !
XOX
Nice, nice!
ReplyDeleteI have to confess though- we re off to Kakadu for a week mid July, and I'm looking forward to a week away from the hills lurgis.
We ve done ok so far (touch wood), but one local primary school had almost half the kids away last week....
We re out of wood already. Need to learn to dry wood out a year before. Same story each winter 'hey, green wood. Not enough heat, doesn't burn properly...we should be stockpiling it shouldn't we? Mmmmmmmm. Yes, we'll do it next year, shall I run down to the servo for some redwood? So expensive... We live in a forest, what are we doing? Let's stockpile on the weekend...oh hang on, I've got a gig/have a jam/want to sleep in/forgot/all of the above. I'll get some redwood from the servo and we'll remember to stockpile for next year....
Brissy had some glorious Autumn days, followed by some miserable wet weekends, succeeded by some glorious 22'winter days. Best to be well indoors before 5pm though. And never, ever cross a southern border before spring.
ReplyDeleteKakadu sounds tropical!
ditto with the wood here, wilms! we stock pile all summer, but can't be farqued splitting at the time - what with all that outdoorsness in the heat and all - so every april we do the green wood dance, split like mad, and hope for the smokey best.
ReplyDeletemakes me sort of resent those neighbours who have neatly stacked, split, hardwood stacked against a wall to the height of their eaves. all carefully arranged in chronological order and diameter, etc. you'd think they lived in remotest Alasaka, off the grid. still, I want their wood!
no dire lurgies here thus far, touch someone else's dry wood. lots of it about, but thankfully mine have only had minor colds - not so much as warranting a pocket pack of tissues. the little mister and I have remain unscathed. we put it down to mondo sleepage :p