
8:26AM – the ice is still on the fence, left when I changed the birds water around 7AM. The gum tree was dripping melting ice from their leaves, like rain.
I’m pleased – got a whole scene rewritten today. I’m printing each one out in double spacing for the first proper edit later on.
Thanks for reading. 🙂
Looks very cold up your way Christine.
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It didn’t reach that low here, but it sure felt like it. Dived out of bed to put heater on then jumped back into bed to wait for it to heat up. Been an icy wind all day, cuts right through you. I’m still glad that the cold weather is here.
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All right, d#mmit: What’s would it cost to buy a friggin’ home where you live? I’m dead serious. I am on a long research project, and all options are open.
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Rural Australia is very beautiful! Any of rural: NSW, Victoria, South Australia and (of course 🙂 ) Tasmania would offer you a very cheap and very beautiful place to live. Temperatures vary, for example, although I live at 43 degrees south at the bottom of Tasmania (that’s as far south as you can live without leaving Australia altogether) our coldest day has still not yet dropped below zero — though I suspect it might have just dipped down last night, as it was 0.3 degrees celsius when I got up at 6:00 this morning …
Check out the online real estate at, e.g. realestate.com.au or domain.com.au
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That s/b “what”–and thank you, Fat Eric’s mum! : )
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Thanks Paula. House prices are inflated here because we are only 100kms from Melbourne – quite a few people travel to the outer industrial suburbs for work. And then we have a huge intake of retirees who come here for one of the best golf courses in Victoria, if not Australia.
I think the ocean around Tasmania keep the temps from being so dramatic as ours. I think we are in the path of snow clouds on their way to the snowfields!
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I sympathise with you having such low temps Christine, although the scenery looks lovely with the frost on it. It doesn’t seem long since you were writing about the heat! Glad to hear that your writing is coming along so well.
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I’m a sook, Millie, no doubt!
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Yes, we’ve had snow on the Hartz Mountains across the river every day since the start of June. Winter is definitely colder this year than last! But those cold, clear days are very beautiful – and always make me want to get out and do stuff 🙂
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One always has to ‘do stuff’ on a farm! 🙂
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DON’T go and do stuff, I thought I would do some weeding while my grandson was playing with next door’s little girl. Big mistake, forgot that I haven’t done a lot of bending, reaching, etc. for a while. I can hardly walk today, every time I sit down, stand up or bend over the muscles in my back scream IDIOT.
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… well I shouldn’t have pushed like … but there is no sympathy button! ❤
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Your very kind, but I bet deep down your laughing at me. Your turn will come.
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But I have done stuff like that in the past – it’s always gardening that brings you undone! I always sit down to weed these days … when I weed.
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I do know what you mean, Sue. I decided to try to get fit at Easter and went off hiking with a pair of trekking poles — how was I to know I already had arthritis in my thumbs? They hadn’t been hurting all that much up till then – but, oh boy, they certainly hurt afterwards! My GP was remarkably sympathetic, considering what an idiot I’d been …
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ouch
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OOh, you poor thing. But at least you were brave to try.
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