Winter in Adelaide

Adelaide is doing New Zealand very well at the moment which is why it is so fresh and green. I don’t do grey, wet and miserable very well but occasionally we have those days where the sun pops out in between the rain and there is a touch of blue and the green is so vibrant. I can take my dog for a walk and it’s not that wet underfoot and we can enjoy the fresh air and the sunshine. I have to watch for the muddy bits but even they are not that bad. It has been freezing cold for Adelaide. Icy. Others  from elsewhere might think it’s okay but we are cold. We are creating an interesting winter look , though. Some are dressing up and adding nice scarves to their outifts and it looks good. Others are piling on the layers. I saw one guy with his baseball hat and a thin woollen beanie on top of it with his sunnies perched on top of the cap peak. Looked interesting and different. Those doing the layered look are coming up with some nice combinations. For once Adelaide has got away from the dark blue and grey customary wear for winter and that’s usually been a fleecy top and track pants. You still need your sunglasses because every so often that sun just comes out, even for a little bit,  and can be dazzling. To see the green freshness and the gum trees looking happy is worth all of this wet and cold and so I am trying to look at the benefits of freezing and having to wear mountains of clothes. Having a dog that likes walking has helped. She is happy to get out on a walk and looks forward to it. I am trying to learn form her. 

Horribly cold

My daisies are a wonderful reminder to keep a cheerful face on as I endure this cold wet, miserable stupid weather. There is a reason I live in Adelaide and not Tasmania, not New Zealand, not England. I don’t do cold, wet, windy, hail…horrible. My daisies have defied this vile weather and have come up trumps. I can see them as I go outside and from my lounge room window. They are there to remind me to be happy and well and to take no notice of this weather. Sooner or later it’ll be warm and sunny and just how I  like it. It is hard to be outside because it’s so unpleasant. I have spent some time outdoors but not long. I have done some useful things out there but not much. This weather is getting to us. A lot of Adelaide is sick and I am sure that’s because we have no blue skies and sunshine. People are just walling up and keeping warm. Soon it will be the first day of spring. I hope the weather changes with it!

Welcome to sunny Adelaide

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Get your status update here! I left work this afternoon and by the time I got home my car was telling me it was 6 degrees. This is Adelaide. Sunny Adelaide. We are freezing and over it. Enough of New Zealand in Adelaide. Today was high winds, heavy rain, some hail, some thunder and a spot of sunshine just to taunt us. Bad for driving, bad for getting around on public transport. Bad for walkies. Just another lousy day in Adelaide. I had to laugh as I pulled into my driveway. The radio weather forecaster was telling me it would be going down to 8 overnight. I do not think so. Where I live it’ll go up to 8 and feel like a heat wave. A friend at work was stressing because they had relatives coming in from overseas today and they were looking forward to the nice Australian weather. Fat chance. Adelaide needs to sort itself out and bring us some razzle dazzle. 

Bloomin’ freeeezing in Adelaide

I think I have decided to eat my way through this freezing cold. Know why I live in Adelaide? I don’t want to live in New Zealand because it’s too cold. So we were down to 1.7C this morning. I don’t do cold. I  live in sunny Australia. The decision was to catch the train to town, do a bit of shopping and then have lunch before we came home. I got the nice black leather gloves I had been looking for. I do try to do my bit for retail but I had tried two shopping centres recently before finally finding my gloves in town. Everyone was frozen in town. They had been dressing better at the shopping centres – perhaps because it was a short trip. In town everyone was in their comfy clothes and slow. Looking drab and as uncomfortable as I was. I did put my nicer warm clothes on. Others were coming out in their baggy jeans and trackies and jackets and ordinary scarves. The service in the shops was excellent and everyone was so well groomed. We must have looked a straggly bunch today but it was icy out even though we had a nice blue sky and some sun. No heat in the sun. So,we went to North for lunch, right next to the railway station. It was warm, pleasant, became busier and busier and it offers a great lunch menu and a well thought out a la carte menu. The lunch menu changes regularly and they offer good portions. That was such a nice way to get through a freezing day. 

So cold

Adelaide is so cold. Perhaps not by standards elsewhere but by our standards it’s cold and we don’t know how we are going to get through winter. It’s cold, wet , freezing, foggy…misty actually. In terms of cold climates it’s nothing but we are folding up our petals and lowering our heads. We are getting sick, slow, unhappy.We know we have to get through it and we do have those around us who love this weather but most of us like the sunshine and blue skies and a chance to be outdoors . This is why we live in Adelaide so we have had to think of ways to beat it. Some are reluctant to get out the jackets and jumpers and are shivering their way through the day. If the RSPCA was anything to go by on Saturday then plenty of us have decided offering a nice warm home to a new pet is good way to get through winter. I have never seen it so busy and we were there to get a cat for a family member who now is having a cheerful winter with a beautiful pet and the knowledge of a life saved. That was so heart warming to see the RSPCA people run off their feet. We also seem to be getting into the music and DVDs/downloads. Some are rugged up and trying to beat the stinker of a cold going around. I guess Adelaide had gone homely to beat the freeze.