Winter has hit Brisbane, with night-time temperatures dropping to 6 or 7 degrees and sometimes daytime temperatures not even clearing 20 degrees. Inland it's worse - they had a frost somewhere and pictures of cars with a white dusting on the bonnet made national headlines. It was apparently the coldest June in Brisbane for 27 years.
It's easy to snigger but the housing here isn't geared for cold, in the same way that the infrastructure in the UK doesn't work when the temperature rises. My flat is very open plan with large windows and patio doors and no in-built heating at all (which was wierd when I first moved in - I'm used to a fireplace being the focal point of the living room). We have a fan heater that we move around to keep the temperatures up and a big cozy 'doona' to sleep under but with blinds instead of curtains the cold rolls off the window and onto our heads.
It's hard to motivate yourself & get out in the evenings but I dragged myself out to a wednesday night skate this week and it was great - skating in just a t-shirt and dragging a hoody on when we stopped. We're also off to the seaside today for a long weekend - off down to Byron Bay. We've got wetsuits & bodyboards with us but will we get ourselves into the ocean? Maybe.
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It's easy to snigger but the housing here isn't geared for cold, in the same way that the infrastructure in the UK doesn't work when the temperature rises. My flat is very open plan with large windows and patio doors and no in-built heating at all (which was wierd when I first moved in - I'm used to a fireplace being the focal point of the living room). We have a fan heater that we move around to keep the temperatures up and a big cozy 'doona' to sleep under but with blinds instead of curtains the cold rolls off the window and onto our heads.
It's hard to motivate yourself & get out in the evenings but I dragged myself out to a wednesday night skate this week and it was great - skating in just a t-shirt and dragging a hoody on when we stopped. We're also off to the seaside today for a long weekend - off down to Byron Bay. We've got wetsuits & bodyboards with us but will we get ourselves into the ocean? Maybe.
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