Posts Tagged ‘summer’

This life is sweet. You’re dancin’ in the street.

To those of you shoveling snow or scraping the ice off your windshield or grieving the meteorological predictions of an amphibious rodent I have one thing to say:
Suck it, Northern Hemisphere losers.

February rocks!
Now when you manage to get out of your parkas and your fingers thaw, go and check out my post on The Greenists today. [...]

 
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And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere and gie’s a hand o’ thine

The Australian sun has been fierce in the waning days of 2009. And the north wind, roaring in ruthlessly from the hard baked, dusty interior. Summer is here and 2010 is poised to start with a fiery fury Down Under.
I like the heat. One of the many reasons I was happy to move down here. [...]

 
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But it’s a dry heat…

Note, in particular, the low for Thursday.
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icon for podpress  The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Long Hot Summer Night": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

That’s Dr. Cricket to you…

I know what’s going on
I know how you going on
I got the Ra Ra
go ahead and throw the ball
Cause Bingo, now I’m hittin’ a six…

Mike Hussey’s got nothing on my special lady friend. ‘Twas a stellar weekend filled with sunshine, beach cricket, barbecues and friends. It’s weekends like this that remind me why we [...]

 
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Let goodly sin and sunshine in

There are probably more Australians living in Britain than there are living in Australia*. In parts of London, it’s almost impossible to buy a coffee or order a meal without being met with that nasal Aussie twang. One of the things that I found strange is that, among an incredibly pale people, the Colonials (as [...]

 
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Shine my cowboy in the night of love

I wasn’t planning to post today, but I couldn’t abide looking at the photo of those McDonald’s kids at the top of my page all weekend long. Not only, as Alice pointed out, is it basically child abuse but one of my big fears as a parent. So, here’s some photos of summer in Oz [...]

 
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Fine and sunny. Warm with light to moderate northeast winds and a light to moderate afternoon sea breeze.*

I was going to have a scintillating post for you today about sex, Neanderthals and genocide but for some bizarre reason my employers wanted me to work at work today. Madness.
It’s Friday evening and the week is done* and the forecast for the weekend makes me think you won’t be seeing anything about Cro-Magnon man [...]

 
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