Winter Down Under ...

It's well and truly Winter here in the Land Down Under! To be honest it doesn't get that cold although I think that the longer I'm away from the UK the softer I'm getting! The problem is that strangely older houses in Australia don't cope well with the heat or the cold... we live in what basically amounts to a big wooden shed so it gets pretty cold at night and in the mornings so its UGG boots on, plenty of jumpers and the air conditioning switched around to heat!

We get of lot of clear and cold weather which is great as you can rug up and get out there. We recently had a very wet spell as a big East Coast low hung around for about a week giving us about 400mm of rain in about three days. We were starting to think back to the last big storm we had in June a few years ago .. thankfully it didn't get quite that bad. At the moment its about 17 degrees during the day and about 5 degrees at night... so can't really complain. Leaves are off the trees in the garden and continually being raked up ... it won't be too long before the green shoots of Spring will be back and we'll be back on the beach wearing less than we are in the photo above. Everything crossed here for an English Summer worthy of the name for you guys! ;0)