I'm with you, Malc, though I've never had a white Christmas or celebrated Christmas in July - too false for me. I've never got used to Christmas in the heat, even after 28 years - not the same atmosphere at all. What you're used to, I suppose. I've heard Aussies whingeing about missing Christmas here when they're in the Northern Hemisphere.
Obviously, I've survived our little dust storm yesterday, and the tick, and Facebook in German. (I can speak German, but I don't know how FB worked that out - random, I expect - FB is good at random.) I stayed indoors for the morning, then a friend and I went to a pub with tight closing automatic doors for lunch and by the time we came out 3 hours later, it was clear. We had a lot to catch up on - she's just got back from Scotland and we hadn't talked for 5 weeks. Giving me itchy feet again, all these people having overseas trips. My niece has just announced she's going to South America in November. Hiking (she's not too keen about that, I think her friend is the one who's pushing it) in Patagonia, then up to Uruguay and down to Brazil - half her luck!
Oh well, I'll just have to make do with going to the local Thai for dinner with some of the ladies in the street. I and a couple of others are being driven up there and picked up, so we can have a couple of drinkies (husbands do have their uses). Should be a good evening, although I expect none of the other customers will stay long, once the nine of us get going.
...and just to prove that we do get snow in Australia, here's a photo of me and Kate in front of the gum trees (snow gums) in Perisher Valley, NSW.
Don't tell Kate I posted it. She likes to approve photos of herself. Kate's the taller one with the pigtail, just in case there was any confusion.
