Antipodean Rant (of Sorts)...

Well, I have to say I am fed up of the heat........

By 10 am, it can already be too hot to be arsed changing from tee shirt, shorts and jandals to putting on jeans, shoes, bike jacket, gloves and helmet etc and go for a ride. Leave it later than that, it's even hotter and the tar on the road surface could be melting and spraying up on the bike. Add to that the chip seal coming loose and flicking out of your tyres, potentially damaging to your rims, radiator, other paintwork etc...

I wish that NZ Transport could learn to make roads that don't melt.

So, I am over summer already. Alas, I am also on holiday until the 29th January (been off since December 12th) so this adds to my misery.

Fortunately, there is always a cold beer to help in my anguish...

 

Sorry to hear about the rain and cold.
It's late afternoon and fortunately it's cooled right down to around 22 °C now as it is getting really cloudy and stormy looking...

 

But it was skilfully placed on a jandal, on a sloping lawn... and it didn't stay in the sun much longer...

You mean you don't?...
Oh, I think have worked it out... where you are it's cold, and the beer is warm so it doesn't matter. But here it's warm and sunny, and the beer is cold, and in a wine glass (being thinner and less thermal mass than a pint pot), it stays colder....

 

In an attempt to steer this thread back on course - which I fear is a lost cause (about the same of which can be said for Wet Ham), today I've taken advantage of the cloudy morning and lower temperatures to get out on the Street Twin.

Sun is beginning to burn off the clouds now and it's getting quite warm, so I'm thinking that a few strawberries and a glass of chardonnay might be nice... or maybe I'll just go with some home brew cider...

 

@capt - you do have some serious extremes over in WA, don't think I'd cope with the heat there, I'd be quite happy without the humidity and rain though as we get heaps here - bit of a Catch 22 though as we're on tank water out here in the wops (Pommes are probably scratching their heads now).

Today has remained overcast so far, warm and humid, which brings the brown arsed flies that buzz around at high speed annoying the fek out of me - can hear them but can't see them. I've found that emptying one can of fly spray in a frantic frenzy deals with them for 10 minutes or so, pisses the missus off too....

 

So, in a bid to placate those who feel it improper to drink beer from a wine glass, I offer this photo (taken not an hour ago), from a similar vantage point of a glass of home brew cider - once again expertly (though I say it myself) balanced on my jandal.



Those familiar with Australia will note the complete lack of worry about being in bare feet here in NZ, due to the lack of anything poisonous (spiders, snakes, politicians etc) hiding in the long grass and bush.

Please note also the grey cloud.