It’s been really cold here the last two days, though you’ll laugh when I tell you it’s 15C in the day and about 2C at night, and it’s sunny.
Yes, I know it looks like I’ve gone all lily-livered and years ago I’d have slipped on a t-shirt to go out in minus 5C and play with snow, but the wind chill here is very nasty.
If you look at a map you’ll see the south pole is not a whole long way away and when we get a southerly it brings the smell of polar bears with it (musty they are, let me tell you...).
Teachers at Six’s school were walking around yesterday with about five layers on, which frankly is a bit of overkill, but still it is cool.
An hour away in Lithgow (regular readers with a memory will recall we went there to Ironfest and nearly froze to death) it snowed yesterday and also in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains which is also just an hour’s drive.
I don’t think we’ll get snow here but when I put the rubbish bins out last night the clear air, full moon and smell of woodsmoke reminded me a lot of England on a cold winter’s night, only there were no yobs returning drunk from the local pub and kicking my front gate in. Oh, how I miss it!
Right, off to chop some more wood.