“In the winter time
When all the leaves are brown
And the wind blows so chill…”

I was thinking this morning that what my site needed more than anything else was more Steve Miller. What better way to fill that requirement than as accompaniment to a smugly self-satisfied post about the Australian winter.

One of the 900,000 things that worried me about moving to Australia was the timing. By arriving in late April we would be coming into late autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. What made this worse was we had just trudged through another soul-destroying British winter. Well, as was the case with most of my anxieties, this one proved groundless. Thus far, as this gratuitous baby photo attests, the winter in Oz has pretty much exceeded the “summer” in Blighty.

Now if you’ll pardon me, I’m going to go sing “Rock ‘N Me” on the beach.

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