The front page of the Herald Sun today had a big picture of 2 little girls playing with snow. They were somewhere in Dandenong, I believe – not too far from where we are. It was that cold yesterday, yes. I was freezing my socks off while waiting for the train last night. It doesn’t help that I now have a hairline that has begun to beat a slow but steady retreat. I now therefore, have thinning insulation upstairs. A beanie generally helps but mine was a freebie from a slab of Guinness and freebies go, this one is pretty Spartan as well. It is not at all rich in texture as the beverage wonderfully is. But it’s the only one I have that doesn’t make me look like a kid in Dandenong on a cold morning so it’d have to do. It is enough anyway, to keep my crown from just about frozen. I still have some hair to compensate for an inadequate Guinness beanie.
Last night when I checked the weather it said the temperature was about 3 degrees but felt like 0.23 degrees. I told kiddo who promptly opened the door and went outside to have a feel of what it was like in near zero temperature. The weatherman said in the radio this morning that yesterday and today was as cold as this winter was going to get. Apparently after today, conditions would become warmer. After recent struggles to get to maximum of 11 degrees (it hovered around 5 degrees for most of yesterday), this is very comforting news. Hopefully we would all become a little brighter in outlook as well, as all I have been doing lately is hunkering down with my work. A cousin of mine who lived in Melbourne for a short while, once suggested the Melburnians’ obsession with footy (the Gaelic version of football but played with an oval, rugby like ball) is actually a ploy to help us go through the winter. He may well be right. He’s the smart one in the family after all, being an Asean scholar and all. He’s now a well known urologist in Harry’s domain (calls himself a plumber). Smart as he is, his hair has receded as badly as mine too so I bet he’d be wearing some headwear too if he was here and it would have very little to do with any sense of fashion.
Ante 