It was grey and windy over the weekend but I didn't care, because I was at the beach. No swimming (not just grey and windy but COLD) but several walks, several books and I made two sundresses in a fit of optimism. That there would be sun! After last summer's unbelievable heat and dryness, everything is looking very green and damp. I know it's early days yet for summer but even this time last year it was brown, and it's just not the case this year. Fingers crossed we keep getting decent rain.
Oh, except for these people of course, beautiful spot for a wedding (other than it being a public pathway, hello random strangers!) but it would have been gale force and a bit nippy by the afternoon. October, what can you do.
This storm didn't come to much luckily because our skylight in the bathroom has started leaking. The lovely neighbours whipped up on a ladder and did some siliconing if you can believe it - so nice. And so handy! We are very hopless desk pushers who can barely hold a hammer but will buy them some beer.
And there were two elections to watch; the ACT and New Zealand, where both Labor governments got easily re-elected. Canberra is a very lefty town so by the end of this term Labor will have 23 unbroken years in power. Although I should say 'power' because it is the government of a single city of 400 000, so we are not exactly at the forefront of world domination. And neither, to be fair, is NZ. But it was interesting to watch with one eye while sewing, and a nice relief from right-wing extremism and lunacy.
If I remember right it was 34 degrees and sweltering for your October outdoor wedding and someone had insisted that we all wore suits. That was Brisbane, I suppose. Election was interesting. A vision contest "No idea what a vision is " lost to "Let's keep moving forward" where undefined. They are actually going to have to do something this time. Did you notice the glib NRA clones got 8% and 11 MPs. Scary.
ReplyDeleteA bit less lunacy certainly sounds attractive. Lunacy is what we have in Britain with our mop-haired blondie, and as for America... . Sigh.
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