OMG I can't believe how hot it is out there! Not even lunchtime and the thermometer's pushing 30C, almost makes me want to pray for rain! Still, it's not every year the UK has a Heatwave of these proportions (Just before you Aussies start laughing at me!!)

Originally posted by KT1972 the thermometer's pushing 30C

Okay, for those of us who don't live in a metric-ruled part of the world, that's 86F. I won't laugh at you, KT, but it's been staying around 98F in my neck of the world! (36.7C) We're expecting a break in the heat tomorrow -- the expected high is 85F!

Aussies who have been to the UK when you have a heatwave there come back perplexed: "It's weird," they say. "Thirty degrees is nothing over here, but over there, thirty degrees feels hot!" Just to make things worse for you northerners, it's a cold rainy day here, and I've got the wood stove going. We're looking at a maximum temperature tomorrow of 16 degrees Celsius. I may have to wear a scarf over my sweater. It wasn't rainy enough to keep the kangaroos away -- when it's really wet, they hunker down in the bush, under the 'skirts' of a Balga Mia (grass tree) if they can find one, so they don't visit -- but if it isn't pelting down, they turn up (I caught Jarrah playing peek-a-boo with Skye through the front window this afternoon) to bludge a feed and poop all over the verandah.

I know those of you in the northern hemisphere will laugh at me for what I'm about to say . . . It's BLOODY FREEZING here! Last night got down into the minuses (-1 or-2C), and top temps are in the low teens. The sun is bright, but there's no heat in it and the breeze is positively icy. Yep, FREEZING!

I try to keep from comparing winter weather -- I feel as though I'm becoming one of those old-timers who'd say, "When I was your age, I had to walk uphill to school in bare feet and through a foot of snow!"