BRRR

6 December 2015

It is supposed to be summer here in Perth Western Australia, and well we have rain its cold and windy while other parts of the country are sweltering in 40C.  It is so bad they cancelled the Christmas Pageant now that may not sound like a big deal but the Pageant is the start of the count down to Christmas ( for me anyway), it means there are 20 days till Christmas Day and the frenzied shopping can begin.  I always say that I am not going to leave the shopping to the last minute and every year I am there playing the game of parking bay stalk and my favourite standing in long lines and listening to tide kids wail/scream/cry.  Now I am a fairly patient person when it comes to shopping but even I want to randomly slap people around christmas time for doing stupid stuff in the shops for example - stopping in the middle of the aisle and making it impossible to get past, stopping and talking to people you haven't seen in months and disrupting the flow of traffic going past the shops, and my favourite going the wrong way past the shops when you can clearly see that one side the traffic is going one way and the other is going the other way ( I probably haven't explained that well).

Yesterday I had to play carbay stalk twice and I didn't get what I wanted so I am thinking I will have to go today, which puts me in a flap because today I wanted to start on my new and improved home management binder. So I will have to go and get some paper because I can be almost certain that the paper will run out while I am printing out pages!!, I need a new binder(s) and post-it-notes, plus file dividers.  I am pretty sure I know what sections I want to have in the binder I just need to figure out how I am going to get it to work and where to keep it so that everybody in the house can use it as a reference point.

As I type this it is bucketing down with rain, the washing that I have on the line is getting re-rinsed and I am facing the reality that whatever gets washed today is going to have to go in the dryer, I don't have a issue with the dryer it just feels wrong to be using it in summer.  But with all my grumbling comes with the small hope that this rain might top up the dams so that we are not on water restrictions for all of summer, living in such a dry climate you would think that we would be used to it but every year it takes us by surprise that we have water restrictions.  Yesterday was our coldest December day since 1960 something - yes I did a bit of research on that.  Instead of being 35C like expected I think it only got to 23C so out came the jeans and sweaters while I know that doesn't sound cold to those in the Northern Hemisphere here in Perth we are kinda in bushfire season so to get it was cold.

I may get my wish of having a white christmas yet!!!, have been told that it isn't cold enough to have snow and that I would like it for the first 5 minutes until I can't get warm then I will complain about how cold it is!! Have been informed that snow is great when it first falls because it is white and fluffy, it then turns grey and slushy and doesn't look so nice and you don't want to play in it.  I guess I have always had a romantic view of snow as I have never seen it - and on TV doesn't count, and have never been in a cold enough climate to experience it, my romanticised view of snow is sitting by a roaring fire, a big real christmas tree, the snow falling outside, kids building snow men, and snow ball fights, the big white fluffy snow - I watch way to many movies andTV shows that involve snow!!, I guess the part that I haven't thought about is the fact it is soo cold that the car is covered in ice, the ice on the roads and the other stuff like not being able to get food or the fact that the water in the pipes might freeze and you have no water!!!.

On that note I am going to go and look at the rain, bundle up in jeans and a sweater and get on with my day
Toodles xxx