umm, not a recipe.
We had some rain about two weeks ago, just enough to stir the dust (and show me that there was a leak - somewhere near the back - in the caravan). For the past week or so has been hot and very dry.
35C (95F) in this house for the past few days, but that is only due to the fact that am one of the "suffering poor", and have to wander around naked, keep the windows shut and blinds closed during the day (not that the temperature has eased much during the night, when I open them again).
Went out to have a look at the thermometer in the car which has been sitting outside in the sun all day, and it reads 56C(133F), baked turkeys are one thing, buuuut, so took the day "off" - and the one in the shade of the back porch reads 48C(118F)
One of the things that makes the "seasonal" Jolly Gent in the fur trimmed red suit driving reindeers through the drifts of snow sort of faintly ridiculous in this half of the "real" world.
On the other hand, am sure that some of the "wannabe leaders of world opinion" are happily sitting around in taxpayer funded "climate controlled" comfort.
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What a prissy bunch of ninkompoops we are. I think air-conditioning should be banned and buildings that become uninhabitable without it, which probably includes most shopping mauls, should be bulldozed. I didn't feel hot the other day, until I went into the at least five degrees cooler air conditioned supermarket and thence re-emerging into carpark, whereupon I was hit with a wave of heat, that I had been coping with all day quite comfortably, i.e, I didn't feel hot until I went into and then out of airconned supermarket.
Hmmm. 29 degrees . . . still, I note, at this hour where you live. We have a very civilized 22 right now. No personal slur intended, but remind me never to move to Adelaide.
Happy New year Davo! :)
(((Hugs)))
we have about 10 hours yet for the new year (cheers!) hic-up! I'm starting early lol
One of the nice things about Adelaide, Caroline, is that that sort of temperature only lasts for a few days and/or generally cools down at night. There are places in the world where it continues for weeks on end. It took me several years to get used to the summers in Queensland. Might not have been that hot - only 25-29C or so - but was very "muggy" and continued day and night.
Also, same problem with shopping "mauls". Felt like they had set the temp gauge at zero. Had never caught so many colds - due to the sudden (and un-natural) changes in body temperature. Buuut, the "majority" of us humans seem to be quite content to let others decide what our "comfort" zone should be.
Thanks for the best wishes, Kathy. May everybody enjoy the next twelve month cycle with pleasure and few problems.
I wish you could box up that heat and send it to me to warm up this house. Last time the oil man came here to fill the tank, and I saw the bill, I vowed to freeze my fingers off if I had to rather than let the furnace run. So far, so good, still have two pointers and a pinky.
Ah, Anne, you perhaps, can understand the festival devoted to the "Welcoming of the Sun" .. but not t worry, we're sick of it, and are devising joyous Festivals were we see the bloody thing sent back up your way fer a few months ..heh.
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