It's been a cold winter.

I don't know whether I am acclimatising now, but I think it has been a really cold winter this year.

When we first  moved here from New Zealand, mind you, that was over 12 years ago, or when we came to Australia for holidays during the NZ winters, we would go swimming, go to the beach, and it was warm! Well not now. Fortunately for us, this house sit is on a large block and there is lots of firewood and a good fireplace, so we are having fires every night, and I often marvel at the fact that a few years ago I would have thought this to be warm weather.

But things do seem to have got cooler this year. Sydney has had some terrible weather, gale force winds, and heavy snow in the Blue Mountains, that doesn't happen very often. And those cold winds have flowed unimpeded up the coast to us, and blasted us with the same cold air.

Even the days have not been very warm, the temperature getting close to 20 during the day, but some days only the high teens. So it is still on with all the winter woollies. Bring on the summer!