WE HAVE RAIN

The rainy season is upon us, with its amazing electrical storms, inky skies and thundering, bouncy rain.

Bee stood outside under the protection of the stoop on Friday, and I could read her mind..she was thinking “I remember this” and positively smiling with joy.

For the past week we have been struggling with temperatures around 39 degrees, which is daunting enough..but the humidity! Oh my word...I have become Mrs Air-co again, and race out [when its not storming] to leap into the pool.

This is not meant to lay down the gauntlet to those of you who are struggling in sub zero temperatures, merely to reflect the extremes of our hemispheres.

 The pictures of the snow probably look as attractive to me as the pictures of the extreme heat here do to you at the moment.

How jealous I am of a potential white Christmas, we have the incongruity of Jingle bells shrieking out of OK foods in Kakamas at 40 degrees and rapidly shrivelling tinsel decorations scorched and curling in fright of the sun . There is a very pitiful attempt to “do Christmas lights” in Kak...rows of green and red lights across the one set of traffic lights in the village. [The blown bulbs give quite an attractive sequencing effect!]

Fruit of the suasage tree..one of my outside "still life" arrangements that Bongo insists on demolishing with his play, now being washed away by the water....wouldnt mind a few sausage trees in the garden!